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1 Maccabees
- noun - an Apocryphal book describing the life of Judas Maccabaeus
2 Maccabees
- noun - an Apocryphal book describing the life of Judas Maccabaeus
Abacinating
- verb - blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes; "The prisoners were abacinated by their captors"
Abacination
- - The act of abacinating.
Abecedarian
- adjective - a 16th century sect of Anabaptists centered in Germany who had an absolute disdain for human knowledge
- a novice learning the rudiments of some subject
- alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers)
Abecedarius
- noun - a poem having lines beginning with letters of the alphabet in regular order
Abel Tasman
- noun - Dutch navigator who was the first European to discover Tasmania and New Zealand (1603-1659)
Ablactating
- verb - gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk; "she weaned her baby when he was 3 months old and started him on powdered milk"; "The kitten was weaned and fed by its owner with a bottle"
Ablactation
- noun - the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal
- the cessation of lactation
Abnormality
- noun - an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies
- behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality
- marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal
- retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence