This page gathers the 23 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “Early” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry.
- aback noun An inscribed stone square.
- abusion noun Misuse, abuse; in particular, illegal behaviour; verbal, physical or sexual abuse.
- accept adj Accepted.
- accite verb To summon.
- acclaimer noun One who claims something.
- accrease verb To increase.
- accresce verb To increase; to grow.
- clowd noun Early Modern form of cloud.
- consistory noun A civil court of justice.
- eend noun Alternative form of end.
- fower noun One who cleans (fows), as in cooking utensils or house maintenance.
- gin verb To begin.
- gospeler noun A Protestant or evangelical Christian.
- law of nations noun The shared set of legal principles said to be recognized by most peoples in the world; natural law.
- losing noun Early Modern form of lozenge.
- me pron Indefinite pronoun (usually singular); one; you; they; someone.
- paideia noun An early model of Christian higher learning having theology as its chief subject.
- pity noun Piety.
- post off verb To put off; to delay.
- the pron Early Modern form of thee.
- thine det Second-person singular prevocalic possessive determiner (preconsonantal form: thy).
- thy det Possessive form of thou: that which belongs to thee; which belongs to you (singular).
- wrath verb To anger (someone); to enrage.