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1. advocacīe, advō̆cātie n.

Additional spellings: advocatie
5 quotations in 1 sense
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Law (a) the activity of a professional pleader in courts of law, advocacy; (b) the advocacy performed by a prosecutor, a charge or accusation; (c) theol. intercession or advocacy on behalf of a sinner……

2. allē̆ǧea(u)nce n.(1)

Additional spellings: allegeaunce
13 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Law A formal declaration or deposition; (b) the citing of authorities (esp. the Scriptures) in support of a doctrine or opinion; (c) the expression of an opinion or objection; assertion……

3. almes(se n.

Additional spellings: almesse
144 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) Anything given to relieve those in poverty or distress, any charitable gift or offering, alms; an allotment of alms; eten almes, be dependent on alms; gan on almes, liven bi, of almes, live on……

4. avīs n.

109 quotations in 8 senses
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Sight, view; inspection, scrutiny. …

5. champartīe n.

17 quotations in 3 senses
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Law The practice of aiding a litigant for a share of the matter in dispute, champerty. …

6. dē̆pendaunce n.

6 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) The state of being dependent; (b) law an action or fact growing out of a legal action, consequence, result. …

7. dētermināciǒun n.

30 quotations in 4 senses
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Usually law (a) Disposition or settlement of a suit or dispute; decision, verdict; doom, undoing; (b) power to adjudicate, jurisdiction. …

8. entente n.

160 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) Purpose or intention; aim or object; reason (for doing something); (b) of entente, intentionally, deliberately, voluntarily; double of entente, ?shifty; (c) for, in, til, to, with (the) entente……

9. maundement n.

79 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A commandment (of God, Christ, Mohammed, etc.) regulating human conduct; fixed precept or rule of conduct (contained in the law of God or a religious rule); one of the Ten Commandments; (b) coll.……

10. mō̆rther n.(1)

65 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Deliberate killing of a human being, murder; morther of self, soule morther, spiritual suicide or death; (b) in prov. sayings: morther wil out, etc.; (c) a massacre; (d) crime, outrage; injury or……

11. mortificāciǒun n.

17 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Death; (b) renunciation of self and the world; mortificacioun of the flesh (bodi), mortificacioun of sinne, penitential asceticism. …

12. nōn-obstant(e prep. & n.

Additional spellings: nonobstant, non-obstante, nonobstante
3 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Notwithstanding, in spite of; (b) law clause of non-obstant, a clause used in statutes and letters patent in which the king authorized an action contrary to established law. …

13. orī̆ǧinā̆l(e n.

Additional spellings: originale
36 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Origin, source; ancestry of a person; a source of a river; also fig.; haven original of (in), to originate in (sth.); taken original of (from), arise from (sth.); originate in (a place); of a……

14. plāce n.

407 quotations in 9 senses
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(a) Space, extension in two or three dimensions, room, area; also fig.; biriden so muche place, to ride over so much area, cover so much ground; haven place, have room; occupien place, occupy space……

15. prē̆mis(se n.

Additional spellings: premisse
35 quotations in 3 senses
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Pl. (a) Aforesaid matters, previously stated points; (b) preliminary plans, preparations; premis of the welcominge, preparations for the welcome. …

16. prēscripciǒun n.

13 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Law Title or right acquired by virtue of uninterrupted possession or use for a period of time sufficient, according to law, to establish such claim; (b) sentence of exile, proscription [error for……

17. prē̆sentāciǒun n.

24 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The formal act or ceremony of dedicating an infant or a young child to God or to a pagan deity; also, the Christian Feast of the Presentation, Candlemas; (b) the formal induction of an elected……

18. record(e n.

Additional spellings: recorde
87 quotations in 7 senses
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Remembrance or recollection of something; of record, in remembrance. …

19. rent(e n.

Additional spellings: rente
162 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Revenue from property, income; also fig.; (b) a source of revenue or income, property yielding revenue; -- usu. pl.; lond and (or) rent, rent and lond, londes and (ne, other) rentes; (c) wealth……

20. rescǒus n.

37 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Deliverance, rescue; assistance, help; also, defense; also fig.; rescous of oure lei, defense of our faith; don rescous, to render aid; maken rescous, render aid, rescue something; also, prepare……

21. resort(e n.

Additional spellings: resorte
31 quotations in 5 senses
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A return, a coming back; maken resort, to return. …

22. return n.

20 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) An act of returning to a place or state, a return; also, retaliation; sauns return, without fail; (b) law the sending back of a writ or other document to a court with a report, a return; a report……

23. seisī̆n(e n.

Additional spellings: seisine
51 quotations in 3 senses
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Law: (a) Seizin, possession in freehold, freq. indicated or established by actual or physical possession; also, the right to something [quot.: c1436, 2nd]; also, the ceremony at which seizin is……

24. taille n.

80 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) A slash, cut; (b) a style, fashion, manner in which cloth is cut; (c) physical appearance, shape; (d) coll. slips of wood, cuttings; also [1st quot.], ?a thicket; ?undergrowth [this word and the……

25. transcript n.

7 quotations in 1 sense
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Chiefly law A copy of a document, transcript; also [quot. 1472-5], ?an escheat; ?a written promise to pay. …

26. verdit n.

20 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Law A decision rendered by a jury in an inquest or a court case, verdict; verdit yeldinge; yeven verdit; seien (supposen) for verdit, to find (that sth. is or was the case), make a ruling (b) a……

27. vileināǧe n.

9 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The status of a villein; excepcioun of vileinage, law a plea in which a defendant objects that a plaintiff’s claims ought to be disallowed owing either to the latter’s villein status or to his……

28. wā̆st(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: waste
82 quotations in 9 senses
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Uncultivated or uninhabited land; wilderness, desert; also, a tract of uncultivated, barren, or desolate land; ?also, a parcel of land left fallow or untended [quot. a1467]. …

29. weif n.

27 quotations in 1 sense
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Law (a) Property, including livestock, app. ownerless and hence subject to seizure and forfeiture, abandoned goods; weif and strai (b) a piece of such property, a stray domestic animal; weifs and……

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