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1. austēre, austē̆rne adj.

Additional spellings: austerne
16 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Of persons, speech, manner: harsh, severe, stern; (b) rigorously moral, austere; (c) grim, fierce. …

2. dissolū̆tī̆f adj.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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Of a medicine: producing dissolution or dissipation of a morbid condition; -- also as noun. …

3. fẹ̄rs adj.

84 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Of persons: proud, lofty, noble; arrogant, haughty; bold, valiant; (b) bold (hardi, stern, stout) and fers, brave and fierce, stern and proud, strong and brave; fers and fel (stout), brave and……

4. prǒud adj.

228 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) Guilty of the sin of Pride; haughty, arrogant; also, obstinate, rebellious; (b) proudest of pride, supremely proud; proud as lucifer; proud herte, proud heart; -- also as surname or epithet; maken……

5. rūde adj.

117 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Ignorant, uneducated, simple; lay, not clerical; also, without special training in a subject, unskilled, inexperienced; of intelligence: untutored; also, as coll. noun: ignorant or unlearned……

6. ruffīne adj.

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Reddish. …

7. sē̆joint(e adj.

Additional spellings: sejointe
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Separated, unjoined. …

8. sē̆riǒus adj.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Arranged in sequence, continuous; (b) serious, earnest, resolute; also, as noun: seriousness, gravity. …

9. serpentīn(e adj.

Additional spellings: serpentine
24 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) From a serpent; resembling a serpent or a dragon in form or movement; also, infested with serpents; of a wound: inflicted by a serpent; (b) cunning, deceitful, treacherous; diabolical; also, as……

10. sōl(e adj.(1)

Additional spellings: sole
74 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) In an unmarried state, single; also, celibate; sol womman, womman sol; kepen sol; liven sol; (b) deprived of a father, daughter, lover, or counselors; sol of, deprived of (one's wards, help). …

11. spiritū̆āl adj.

119 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) Immaterial; consisting solely of intellect, purely intellectual; (b) having the properties of the immaterial: of virtues: unbounded, infinite; of torment: intangible; (c) phil. & theol. of form……

12. subǧet adj.

140 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) Obedient, submissive; compliant; also, deferential; also fig.; subget to (unto); (b) put to the service of someone or something else; of service to another; also, subordinate; subget to (til); (c)……

13. sulphurī adj.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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Containing or impregnated with sulfur, sulfurous. …

14. textuē̆l adj.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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Learned in texts, bookish. …

15. thā̆n def. art. & adj.(1)

249 quotations in 6 senses
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Referring to a specific member of a class and used anaphorically, pointing to a person or thing previously mentioned: the, that, this: (a) with noun; (b) with noun, now further specified by an adj., a……

16. thas def. art. & adj.

109 quotations in 5 senses
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Referring to a specific member of a class and used anaphorically, pointing to a person or thing previously mentioned: the, that, this: (a) with noun; thas weies (aweies), in this manner; (b) with……

17. unsupportāble adj.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Unbearably great. …

18. vacaunt adj.

28 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Unoccupied, empty; uninhabited, tenantless; also in fig. context [last quot.] (b) vacaunt of (from), lacking in (sth.), free of; also in fig. context [last quot.]; (c) of time: unfilled by……

19. valent adj.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Worthy, excellent. …

20. virǧī̆n(e adj.

Additional spellings: virgine
20 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Of a woman: young, unmarried, and without sexual experience; of a bee: young and unmated (b) characterized by virginity, virginal; also fig. and in fig. context; also in epithetic phrase [last……

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