Something that happens or occurs; a fortuitous happening. …

(a) Of things, conditions, emotions, qualities: existing in fact, real; of actions: really done; (b) surg. real (as opposed to potential); actual cauterie, a cauterizing operation involving the……

(a) Of nationality, domicile, or provenience: foreign (ruler, merchant, etc.); foreign (country); foreign (goods, ship, etc.); (b) of a religious establishment: granted or subject to a foreign……

Law (a) To transfer or surrender one's title to property or rights, alienate (property or a right); alienen awei; alienen in fe simple (taille); (b) to divert (property to a different purpose). …

Law To make a formal declaration in court, either by way of bringing a charge, in defense against a charge, in support of a right, or in justification of a claim; alleggen matier, present evidence……

Theol. One of the four methods or levels in the interpretation of Holy Writ [i.e. the literal (temporal), spiritual (allegorical), moralizing (tropological), and mystical (anagogical)]: spiritual……

Theol. (a) Susceptible to betterment or salvation; (b) capable of inducing betterment or salvation. …

(a) To remedy (a lack, a fault, a bad situation); correct, rectify, right (a wrong, an injustice, an error); (b) to correct or emend (a text, etc.); used ironically in Wycl.Papa. …

Theol. (a) The announcement of the incarnation of Christ, made by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin; (b) the church festival commemorating that event (March 25); (the feste of) the anunciacioun of our……

Theol. (a) ben assumpt(ed, be received in Heaven, be taken to Heaven; assumpten bodili, be received in body; in bodi assumpt, in the body as received in Heaven; (b) ascend (to Heaven). …

(a) To utter blasphemy against (God, Christ, etc.); -- with or without obj.; (b) theol. to speak or act in a manner offering insult to God, commit blasphemy. …

(a) Uttered insult or irreverence to God, blasphemy (against God or anything holy; also, against heathen gods); (b) theol. any action, belief, or utterance offering insult to God [see quots.]. …

Theol. An angel of the second order (ranking below a seraph) in the hierarchy of nine orders; angel cherubin; also used allusively of the Evangelists for their wisdom. [Cherubs stand beside God's……

A religious rite of Jews and Mohammedans: removal of the foreskin, circumcision [corresp. in significance to baptism among Christians]; holden, kepen circumcisioun, observe the rite of circumcision……

(a) Of an area: to contain or include (sth.); (b) to enclose (sth. in an area). …

(a) Theol. Damnation; (b) sentencing or conviction, as for an offense; a sentence; (c) a penalty or punishment imposed by sentence. …

(a) To pass adverse judgment upon (sth. or sb.), regard as evil or guilty; condemn, criticize; (b) to bear witness against (sb.), accuse; denounce (one person to another). …

(a) To harass, rout, defeat, or annihilate (an adversary); harass (a person or people); (b) to frustrate (sb.); refl. defeat (oneself); (c) to harm or destroy (sth.). …

(a) Destruction, ruin; death; bringen to confusioun; (b) a source or cause of ruin; (c) theol. perdition, damnation. …

(a) Fitness, appropriateness; (b) convenience; (c) theol. adequacy of deserving behavior (as distinct from condignity, q.v. in OD). …