Abovedeck :: Abovedeck (a.) On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice..

Accede :: Accede (v. i.) To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede.

Accede :: Accede (v. i.) To enter upon an office or dignity; to attain.

Accede :: Accede (v. i.) To become a party by associating one's self with others; to give one's adhesion. Hence, to agree or assent to a proposal or a view; as, he acceded to my request..

Acceded :: Acceded (imp. & p. p.) of Acced.

Accedence :: Accedence (n.) The act of acceding.

Acceder :: Acceder (n.) One who accedes.

Anomalipede :: Anomalipede (a.) Having anomalous feet.

Antecede :: Antecede (v. t. & i.) To go before in time or place; to precede; to surpass.

Antecedence :: Antecedence (n.) The act or state of going before in time; precedence.

Antecedence :: Antecedence (n.) An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.

Antecedency :: Antecedency (n.) The state or condition of being antecedent; priority.

Antecedent :: Antecedent (a.) Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause..

Antecedent :: Antecedent (a.) Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability..

Antecedent :: Antecedent (n.) That which goes before in time; that which precedes.

Antecedent :: Antecedent (n.) One who precedes or goes in front.

Antecedent :: Antecedent (n.) The earlier events of one's life; previous principles, conduct, course, history..

Antecedent :: Antecedent (n.) The noun to which a relative refers; as, in the sentence Solomon was the prince who built the temple, prince is the antecedent of who..

Antecedent :: Antecedent (n.) The first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, If the earth is fixed, the sun must move..

Antecedent :: Antecedent (n.) The first of the two propositions which constitute an enthymeme or contracted syllogism; as, Every man is mortal; therefore the king must die..

Antecedent :: Antecedent (n.) The first of the two terms of a ratio; the first or third of the four terms of a proportion. In the ratio a:b, a is the antecedent, and b the consequent..

Antecedently :: Antecedently (adv.) Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion..

Anti-federalist :: Anti-federalist (n.) One of party opposed to a federative government; -- applied particularly to the party which opposed the adoption of the constitution of the United States.

Archimedean :: Archimedean (a.) Of or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, etc..

Archimedes :: Archimedes (n.) An extinct genus of Bryzoa characteristic of the subcarboniferous rocks. Its form is that of a screw.

Atrede :: Atrede (v. t.) To surpass in council.

Bede :: Bede (v. t.) To pray; also, to offer; to proffer..

Bede :: Bede (n.) A kind of pickax.

Bedeck :: Bedeck (v. t.) To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace..

Bedecked :: Bedecked (imp. & p. p.) of Bedec.

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