Abracadabra :: Abracadabra (n.) A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon.

Academe :: Academe (n.) An academy.

Academial :: Academial (a.) Academic.

Academian :: Academian (n.) A member of an academy, university, or college..

Academic :: Academic (a.) Alt. of Academica.

Academic :: Academic (n.) One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.

Academic :: Academic (n.) A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician..

Academical :: Academical (a.) Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy..

Academical :: Academical (a.) Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific..

Academically :: Academically (adv.) In an academical manner.

Academicals :: Academicals (n. pl.) The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.

Academician :: Academician (n.) A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts..

Academician :: Academician (n.) A collegian.

Academicism :: Academicism (n.) A tenet of the Academic philosophy.

Academicism :: Academicism (n.) A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.

Academies :: Academies (pl. ) of Academ.

Academism :: Academism (n.) The doctrines of the Academic philosophy.

Academist :: Academist (n.) An Academic philosopher.

Academist :: Academist (n.) An academician.

Academy :: Academy (n.) A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head..

Academy :: Academy (n.) An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school..

Academy :: Academy (n.) A place of training; a school.

Academy :: Academy (n.) A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology..

Academy :: Academy (n.) A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music..

Acadian :: Acadian (a.) Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia..

Acadian :: Acadian (n.) A native of Acadie.

Accadian :: Accadian (a.) Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest.

Alcade :: Alcade (n.) Same as Alcaid.

Ambuscade :: Ambuscade (v. t.) A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush..

Ambuscade :: Ambuscade (v. t.) A place in which troops lie hid, to attack an enemy unexpectedly..

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