This page gathers the 10,476 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “Obsolete” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 2 of 105: from “abstract” to “advantage”.
- abstract adj Derived; extracted.
- abstruse adj Concealed or hidden; secret.
- absurd noun An absurdity.
- absurdity noun Dissonance.
- abuse noun A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.
- abused adj Deluded, deceived.
- abusement noun A misleading.
- abuser noun One who uses in an illegal or wrongful use.
- abusion noun Misuse, abuse; in particular, illegal behaviour; verbal, physical or sexual abuse.
- abusive adj Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
- aby verb To pay for (something); to buy.
- academian noun A follower of Plato.
- academy noun The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
- accentor noun The ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapilla.
- accept adj Accepted.
- accepter noun A respecter; one who views others with partiality.
- acception noun Acceptation; received meaning.
- acceptive adj Ready to accept.
- accident noun An injury.
- accidentary adj Accidental; occurring by chance; occasional.
- accite verb To summon.
- acclaim noun A claim.
- acclaimer noun One who claims something.
- accloy verb To drive a nail into a horseshoe; to lame.
- accommodate adj Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
- accompany verb To associate in a company; to keep company.
- accomplish verb To gain; to obtain.
- accord verb To give consent.
- accordable adj Reconcilable; in accordance
- according adv Accordingly; correspondingly.
- accost verb To join side to side; to border.
- account verb To present an account of; to answer for, to justify.
- accountant adj Accountable.
- accrease verb To increase.
- accresce verb To increase; to grow.
- accrue noun Something that accrues; advantage accruing
- accurate adj Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.
- accuse noun Accusation.
- accustom noun Custom.
- ace noun A run.
- acervate verb To heap up.
- ach noun Any of several species of plants, such as smallage, wild celery, parsley.
- ache noun Parsley.
- achieve verb To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
- acies noun The full attention of one's sight, hearing or other senses, as directed towards a particular object.
- acknow verb To recognize.
- acknowledging adj Expressing esteem or gratitude.
- acknown verb Recognized, confessed, disclosed, revealed, realized
- acoel noun A member of the order Acoela of marine flatworms, which lack a digestive cavity with definite walls.
- acquaint verb To familiarize; to accustom.
- acquisitive adj Acquired.
- acquist noun Acquisition; gain.
- acquit verb To release, to rescue, to set free.
- acquittance verb To acquit.
- acre noun A field.
- acre-land noun A piece of land that consists of one acre.
- acrosst adv across
- acroteleutic noun The end of a verse or psalm, or something added to it, to be sung by the people by way of a response.
- act verb To do (something); to perform.
- Actaeon verb To cuckold.
- actinon noun Synonym of radon.
- action noun A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds.
- actionary noun A shareholder in a joint-stock company.
- actor noun Someone who institutes a legal suit; a plaintiff or complainant.
- actually adv Actively.
- acuate verb To sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken.
- adamant noun A person or thing having the quality of attracting or drawing; a lodestone, a magnet.
- adamantine adj Having the quality of attracting or drawing; attractive, magnetic.
- adamantinoma noun A benign tumor of the jaw occurring occasionally in young people. These tumors originate in the enamel organ, developing from the remains…
- adamitism noun The advocacy or practice of public nudity.
- adarce noun A salty concretion found on reeds and grasses in marshy grounds. Soft and porous, it was formerly used for cleansing the skin and to treat…
- adaw verb To daunt, overcome, subdue.
- adays adv In the daytime.
- addeem verb To deem; think; judge; esteem; account; determine; be of an opinion.
- adder noun Any snake.
- addict adj Bound, tied to, obligated.
- addle noun Liquid filth; mire.
- addled adj Morbid, corrupt, putrid, or barren.
- address noun Guidance; help.
- addressment noun The act of addressing; the act of directing one's attention, speech, or effort toward a particular point, person, or object.
- adequate verb To equalize; to make adequate.
- adequation noun The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent.
- adherency noun That which adheres.
- adicity noun Valence.
- adjective noun A dependent; an accessory.
- adjugate verb To yoke an animal to something
- admeasure verb To delimit, to restrain.
- adminish verb To reduce in size or magnitude; to diminish.
- admiral noun Any of several varieties of pear, the trees which produce them.
- admiration noun Wondering or questioning (without any particular positive or negative attitude to the subject).
- admire verb To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
- adore verb To adorn.
- adorn noun adornment
- adraw verb To draw out; to draw (a sword).
- adread verb To dread, fear greatly.
- adree verb To carry on; practice; pass (life, time, etc.).
- aduantage noun Obsolete typography of advantage.
- adultery noun The fine and penalty formerly imposed for the offence of adultery.
- adustion noun The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried.
- advantage noun Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.