GLOSSARY OF LATIN WORDS
FOUND IN RECORDS AND OTHER ENGLISH MANUSCRIPTS, BUT
NOT OCCURRING IN CLASSICAL AUTHORS.
A.
- abaciscus:—a small square tablet.
- abactor:—a cattle lifter, who steals sheep or cattle in herds, not singly.
- abacus:—a calculating board; and hence, arithmetic; a sideboard; a cupboard.
- abandonnare:—to permit or forbid by proclamation.
- abandonum, abandum:—anything sequestered, proscribed, pledged, or abandoned.
- abarnare:—to prove, legally, a secret crime.
- abastardare:—to bastardize.
- abaso:—an infirmary.
- abatamentum:—an entry by interposition.
- abatare:—to beat down; to defeat a writ or appeal; to enter into property void by death of the possessor before the heir takes possession.
- abatis:—an officer who distributes corn, an avener or hostler; a ration of corn.
- abator:—a person who by interposition enters into property.
- abatudus:—diminished, esp. clipped, as money.
- abbas:—an abbot.
- abbatatus:—the office of abbot.
- abbatia, abbathia:—an abbey; the office of abbot.
- abbatis. See abatis.
- abbatissa:—an abbess.
- abbatizare:—to be abbot.
- abbayum:—a milldam.
- abbettamentum:—abetment.
- abbettare, abettare:—to abet; to instigate.
- abbettator:—an abettor.
- abbettum:—abetment.
- abbottare:—to abut, or bound.
- abbremamentum:—an abridgement.
- abbreviare:—to abridge.
- abbrocdmentum:—abbrochment, or forestalling a market or fair.
- abbrocator:—a forestaller; a broker.
- abbuttare:—to abut.
- abcariare:—to carry away.
- abdicare:—to renounce an office before the term of service is expired.
