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1. acācia, -ie n.

Additional spellings: acacie
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Med. A gum made from the juice of green plums or sloes (used as an astringent, a restringent, or a repercussive). …

2. accīdie n.

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(a) The deadly sin of Sloth, a disinclination to do anything good; (b) a spell of lethargy or apathy. …

3. acōlī̆t(e n.

Additional spellings: acolite
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A cleric who has taken the highest of the four minor orders, an acolyte; also, the order itself. …

4. adama(u)nt n.

Additional spellings: adamaunt
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(a) A kind of precious stone; diamond; (b) adamant; fig. something indestructible and enduring, something impenetrable. …

5. Adam-irǧik n.

Additional spellings: Adamirgik
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?Adam's deed; ?sinful Adam. …

6. aeromance n.

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Divination by air, aeromancy. …

7. agō̆nīe n.

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(a) Anguish, agony; a fit of anguish; (b) death throes; the agony of Jesus in Gethsemane. …

8. air n.(1)

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The gaseous substance surrounding the Earth; air, the atmosphere. [In ancient cosmology, the perisphere of air was said to be surrounded by the perisphere of fire. The perisphere of air was regarded……

9. almes(se n.

Additional spellings: almesse
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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……

10. amatist(e n.

Additional spellings: amatiste
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Amethyst; amatist colour, amatist ston. …

11. amidǒun n.

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Crushed hulled wheat; grits, starch. …

12. amphit(h)eātre n.

Additional spellings: amphitheatre
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Amphitheater. …

13. amphora n.

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(a) An amphora; (b) a flask or flagon; (c) a liquid measure [of varying capacity]. …

14. anatomīe n.

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The science of anatomy; knowledge of the structure and the functioning of the human body in all its parts; grosse anatomie. [See definition in Lanfranc 1/9.] …

15. anchōrīte n.

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A recluse or hermit. …

16. ancōnēr n.

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A maker of icons, etc. …

17. aneurisma, -isme n.

Additional spellings: aneurisme
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Arterial dilation, aneurism. …

18. anker n.

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(a) A ship's anchor; casten, laien, senden out anker; drauen up, halen, highen, pullen up, taken up, weien (up) anker; riden at, bi, on anker; (b) a weight; (c) a fastening device, a mooring. …

19. Antecrīst n.

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The antagonist of Christ who was predicted to come before Doomsday, gather a host to fight Christ and his followers, kill Enoch and Elias, devastate the world, and then succumb before Christ. [First……

20. apostē̆m(e n.

Additional spellings: aposteme
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Any morbid swelling or inflammation in any part of the body, external or internal. [a1400 Lanfranc & c1425 Arderne distinguish it from cankre & festre.] …

21. apostle n.

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One of the Twelve Apostles of Christ; apostles twelve; also, a missionary or evangelist of the early Church, such as St. Paul; apostle of Engelonde; apostle of hethen men; apostolene prince. …

22. apozimā(t, apozyme n.

Additional spellings: apozimat, apozyme
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A decoction. …

23. ars-metrīk(e n.

Additional spellings: arsmetrik, ars-metrike, arsmetrike
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(a) The 'art' or 'science' of measuring and calculating, being one of the four disciplines comprised in the quadrivium (along with geometry, astronomy, and music); (b) a treatise on this 'science'. …

24. artetīk, -ica adj. & n.

Additional spellings: artetica, arthetica, arthretica, aretica
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Arthritic, rheumatic; arthritis, rheumatism; goute artetik, arthritis, gout. …

25. asīle, -um n.

Additional spellings: asilum
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Sanctuary, asylum. …

26. astrelabie n.

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(a) Astrolabe [a planispheric instrument for determining the positions and movements of celestial bodies, calculating latitude and longitude, etc.; the most important astronomical instrument of the……

27. attō̆me n.

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(a) The smallest unit of time during the Middle Ages [22560 'atoms' to the hour]; (b) the smallest part of a 'substance'. …

28. austēre, austē̆rne adj.

Additional spellings: austerne
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(a) Of persons, speech, manner: harsh, severe, stern; (b) rigorously moral, austere; (c) grim, fierce. …

29. barbar adj. & n.

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(a) Foreign, non-Greek; (b) heathen, non-Christian; -- perh. with implications of inhumanity; (c) barbar tonge [see quots.]. …

30. basilisk n.

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(a) A fabulous serpent whose glance kills, basilisk; (b) alch. the name of a certain substance that transmutes or 'slays' matter, elixir. …

31. bīble n.

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(a) The 'books' or writings of the Old and the New Testament, the Bible; half bible, a designation for ?or title of a portion of the Bible, probably the Old Testament; bible man, an interpreter of……

32. bīs n.(1)

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A precious kind of linen or cotton cloth; ?batiste, cambric; also, a garment made of this fabric (as worn by the nobility along with purple); purpur and bis; brightest under bis, fairest to behold. …

33. blasfemīe n.

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(a) Uttered insult or irreverence to God, blasphemy (against God or anything holy; also, against heathen gods); a kind or example of blasphemy; (b) theol. any action, belief, or utterance offering……

34. box n.(1)

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(a) The box tree (Buxus sempervirens) or its wood; box tre; box table, a tablet of boxwood (for inscriptions); (b) rendering L sambucus 'elder' erroneously. …

35. būglosse n.

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A plant of the borage family: bugloss Anchusa officinalis. …

36. carā̆t n.

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A measure of the fineness of gold, a carat. …

37. castrimarǧie n.

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Gluttony. …

38. cataracte n.

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(a) One of the 'floodgates' of heaven; cataracte of the ether; (b) med. a cataract of the eye. …

39. cathalōge n.

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A list, register; a calendar of saints; a genealogy of kings. …

40. celidoine n.(1)

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The greater celandine (Chelidonium majus); also, any of its parts used medicinally. …

41. cēte n.(1)

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A whale; cete grande, great whale. …

42. chelidre n.

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A venomous snake. …

43. chẹ̄re n.(1)

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(a) The human face; casten chere upon, look at (sb.); the face or presence (of God); (b) the face (of a flower, star); surface. …

44. chilindre n.

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A portable sun dial in the shape of an upright cylinder with a conical top [see L. Thorndike in Isis 13.51-2]. …

45. chimēra, chimēre n.

Additional spellings: chimere
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A fabled monster, part lion, goat, and dragon. …

46. cicorēa, cicorẹ̄e n.

Additional spellings: cicoree
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The chicory (Cichorium intybus); also, heliotrope. …

47. ciliāde n.

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A period of 1000 years, millenium. …

48. cimitērie n.

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Burial ground, graveyard, cemetery; cimiterie garth. …

49. cine n.

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A tree, variously identified. …

50. cirograf n.

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A formal handwritten document; chirograph. …

51. ciromancīe n.

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Chiromancy, palmistry. …

52. clistē̆r n.

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Med. (a) A clyster, enema; any medicinal liquid administered through the rectum; (b) the instrument for injecting such liquids, a sort of syringe. …

53. cofī̆n n.

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A basket; a hamper. …

54. coloquint(ide n.

Additional spellings: coloquintide
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The plant colocynth (Citrullus colocynthis) or its fruit or pith. …

55. colre n.

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Bile, one of the four primary 'humors'. …

56. comedīe n.(1)

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A narrative with a happy ending; also, any composition intended for amusement. …

57. comēte n.

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A comet; comete sterre; also said of the Star of Bethlehem. …

58. cǒmīn n.

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(a) The plant cumin Cummin cyminum or its aromatic seed; (b) used medicinally; (c) used in cooking; (d) her. …

59. cǒngre n.

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A large marine eel (Conger conger), a conger [an important food fish in Europe]. …

60. cost n.(4)

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Costus root, the root of Saussurea lappa; bitter cost. …

61. -craci(e suf.

Additional spellings: craci, crasie, crasi
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A suffix in a few borrowed words denoting forms of polity and belonging to the philosophical domain: aristogracie, oligracie, timotracie. …

62. crisolīte n.

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A precious stone, any of the gems called chrysolite. …

63. crisopās(e n.

Additional spellings: crisopase
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A precious stone, chrysoprase. …

64. Cristofre n.

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(a) St. Christopher; Cristofre dai, the festival of this saint, July 25; (b) a small image of St. Christopher; (c) a plant of the genus Lysimachia; Cristofre the male, herbe Cristofre male, ?the……

65. demigraine n.

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A severe ache on one side of the head, migraine. …

66. dīa- pref.

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Med. In names of pharmaceutical preparations, or drugs, usually indicating that the herb or the like which follows is the chief ingredient: (a) dia- bardich, some kind of drug; dia- borago, a drug……

67. dīadocus n.

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A gem resembling the beryl. …

68. dīaletik n.

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(a) Formal reasoning; logic, dialectics; (b) a logician. …

69. dīaletik adj.

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Characterized by the dialectic method of probable reasoning; -- as noun, personified. …

70. dīalō̆g n.

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(a) A literary dialogue, literary composition in dialogue form; dialogus, the Dialogues of Pope Gregory the Great; (b) a conversational dialogue. …

71. dīamē̆tre n.

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(a) A line passing through the center of a plane figure or solid body to its sides; a diameter; (b) breadth, width; esp., the width of a circular or spherical object. …

72. dīapā̆sǒun n.

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Mus. (a) The consonant interval of the octave, corresponding to the mathematic proportion of 2 to 1 in number of vibrations; double (twies) diapasoun, the interval of two octaves, corresponding to the……

73. dīapentē̆ n.

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Mus. (a) The consonant interval of a fifth, corresponding to the mathematical proportion of 3 to 2 in number of vibrations; (b) a tone which sounds the interval of a fifth above another tone. …

74. dīaphanitẹ̄ n.

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Transparency. …

75. diaquiloun n.

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Med. A lead plaster containing various plant extracts; 'plaster containing mucilages (in some recipes also juices) extracted from plants, litharge (lead monoxide), and olive oil.' [Norri]; diaquiloun……

76. dīarīa n.

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Diarrhea. …

77. dīatesserǒun n.

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Mus. (a) The consonant interval of a fourth, corresponding to the mathematical proportion of 4 to 3 in number of vibrations; (b) a tone which sounds the interval of a fourth above another tone. …

78. dīocīse n.

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Eccl. A bishop's diocese. …

79. discrāsīe n.

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(a) Med. A diseased condition of the body, or its parts, caused by an unfavorable combination of the humors; (b) fig. disharmony, disorder. …

80. dissenterie n.

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Dysentery; flux dissenterie. …

81. ditain(e n.

Additional spellings: ditaine
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(a) One of two medicinal plants: dittany of Crete (Origanum dictamnus) and/or white dittany (Dictamnus albus); (b) lesse ditain, costmary (Chrysanthemum balsamita). …

82. dragaunt n.

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(a) The gum tragacanth; muscilage dragaunt; (b) some kind of vitriol; calcantum dragaunt, vitriol dragaunt. …

83. draǧǧẹ̄̆ n.(2)

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(a) A sweet confection, sweetmeat; a sweet sauce or condiment; (b) a sweet medicinal preparation; (c) fig. a reward or bribe; dragge of sin, pleasure of sin, incentive to sin. …

84. dragme n.

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(a) A unit of apothecary's weight of one eighth of an ounce, a dram; (b) fig. a bit of talent. …

85. dromedārī(e n.

Additional spellings: dromedarie
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A dromedary; also, a camel of any kind. …

86. elitrōpe n.

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Any of various plants which respond to the movement of the sun. [See Osiris 3.22-46.] …

87. embolisme, -ismus n.

Additional spellings: embolismus
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(a) The act of intercalating lunar months, or days, in the calendar (or civil) year, intercalation; also, a period of time so intercalated; (b) dai of embolisme, moneth of embolisme, an intercalated……

88. embrōc(a n.

Additional spellings: embroca
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See embrocacioun. …

89. emigraine, -grāne n.

Additional spellings: emigrane
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A severe headache, orig. one affecting one side only. …

90. emispēr(i)e n.

Additional spellings: emisperie
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Half of the celestial sphere as divided either by the horizon or by the equinoctial; also, the half of the heavens visible above the horizon; our emispere, the heavens as visible to us, our sky. …

91. empīrī adj. and n.

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Empyrean, empyreal; heven empiri, the highest of the heavenly spheres, which according to the ancients consisted of the element of fire, and became the abode of God and the angels in the Middle Ages. …

92. epatī̆k adj.

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Med. and anat. (a) Affected with disease of the liver; (b) epatik veine the basilic vein; = epatica n., sense 1. …

93. epicicle n.

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Astron. A small circle in which a 'planet' revolves, the center of which circle moves along the circumference of a larger circle (the deferent); epicycle; also, fig.; also, the path traced or……

94. epidemie n.

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Epidemic disease. …

95. epiphanie n.

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The Epiphany. …

96. epitaph(e, -ie n.

Additional spellings: epitaphe, epitaphie
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An epitaph. …

97. escāre n.

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(a) The dry slough, or scab, produced by cautery or by corrosive preparations, eschar; (b) a scar. …

98. etī̆k n.(1)

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(a) The science or principles of human conduct, ethics; (b) a particular system of ethics, a discussion of moral principles; esp., the ethical treatises of Aristotle (often pl.). …

99. etī̆k adj.(2)

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(a) fever etik, hectic fever; (b) of persons: suffering from hectic fever; ?consumptive. …

100. etimoloǧīe n.

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(a) The original form and meaning of a word, which were believed [after Plato, the Stoics, etc.] capable of revealing the true, essential meaning of the word; etymon; (b) a methodical discussion of……

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