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41. answēren, -ien v.

Additional spellings: answerien
119 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) Intransitive To give a reply; answeren ayain, reply; answeren and sain (quethen); (b) transitive with the reply as direct object: to reply (sth.); -- with obj. or obj. clause; (c) intransitive

42. ap(p)araunce, -ence n.

Additional spellings: apparaunce, aparence, apparence
44 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Visible form, figure; (b) sight.

43. ap(p)ēl n.(2)

Additional spellings: appel
32 quotations in 4 senses
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Law (a) A formal accusation brought in court, maken apel, pursuen apel; a document embodying such a charge; writ of apel; (b) a challenge to trial by combat; complien apel, answer such a challenge.

44. ap(p)rǒuen v.

Additional spellings: approuen
13 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Law To appropriate (common land) to one's own use and profit [in accordance with the Statutes of Merton (1236) and Westminster (1285)]; -- refl. & intr.; (b) to assign (sth.) as property; (c) to…

45. arbitrement n.

23 quotations in 2 senses
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Law (a) Authority or power to make binding judicial decisions, jurisdiction; (b) a legally binding decision, verdict; stonden to (at) the arbitrement, abiden (stonden) arbitrement, abide by the…

46. arollen v.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Law, = enrollen v. sense 1.

47. arreinement n.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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Law The procedure of calling upon an accused person to answer to a formal charge, arraignment.

48. arreinen v.

18 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To interrogate (sb.), ask (sb.) a question; ask (a question); (b) to rebuke (sb.), censure.

49. articlen v.

7 quotations in 1 sense
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Law (a) To make a (specific) claim, esp. in writing; (b) make a (specific) charge or accusation, to challenge; articlen agains, onto (sb.); (c) answer a charge point by point.

50. articūlē̆rlī adv.

6 quotations in 1 sense
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Law Point by point, in detail; specifically.

51. ascroue n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Law Escrow.

52. asken v.

232 quotations in 9 senses
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To ask (a question); -- (a) with interrog. clause; (b) with clause & at, of, to phr. of the person; (c) with clause and indir. obj. of the person.

53. asker(e n.

Additional spellings: askere
23 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) One who asks a question;questioner; (b) one who queries (a doctrine, etc.); inquirer, critic; (c) one who beseeches, prays, or begs.

54. asking(e ger.

Additional spellings: askinge
51 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Questioning, inquiry; question; asken, maken asking; (b) querying; (c) gram. noun of asking, an interrogative.

55. astreinen v.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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Law To bind or put under obligation; constrain.

56. attachement n.

10 quotations in 1 sense
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Law The act of distraining (sb.) to appear in court, or of sequestering (property); also, a writ of distraint, writ of attachement.

57. attachen, -ien v.

Additional spellings: attachien
26 quotations in 3 senses
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Law (a) To distrain or bind (sb.) to appear in court; attachen bodi, distrain (someone's) person; attachen bi borwes; (b) to take into custody, arrest (sb.), take prisoner; (c) to sequester or attach…

58. attāmen v.

33 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To cut or pierce (sth.); damage, injure; (b) to mar or sully (virtue).

59. atteindre n.

6 quotations in 1 sense
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Law (a) Conviction or sentencing of a felon [usually involving death by hanging, the extinction of all civil rights, forfeiture of property, and 'corruption of blood']; (b) bil of atteindre, a bill…

60. atteinen v.

107 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) To attain or achieve (a purpose, a desired end); obtain; -- with obj. or to phrase; also refl.; (b) reach (a certain state), attain to; (c) succeed (in doing sth.), be able (to do).