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ANDREW AAGESEN (1826-1879)

AARGAU (Fr. Argovie)

IVAR AASEN (1813-1896)

ABABDA (the Gebadei of Pliny, probably the Troglodytes of classical writers)

ABACA, or ABAIIA

ABACUS (Gr. 15t(34, a slab; Fr. abaque, tailloir)

ABANA (or AMANAH, classical Chrysorrhoas)

CHARLES XAVIER JOSEPH DE FRANQUEVILLE ABANCOURT

ABANDONMENT (Fr. abandonnement, from abandonner, to abandon, relinquish; abandonner was originally equivalent to mettred banddn, to leave to the jurisdiction, i.e. of another, bandon being from Low Latin bandum, bannum, order, decree, " ban ")

ABANDONMENT IN MARINE INSURANCE

ABANDONMENT OF AN ACTION

ABANDONMENT OF AN EASEMENT

ABANDONMENT OF DOMICILE

ABANDONMENT OF RAILWAYS

ABANDONMENT OF WIFE AND CHILDREN

ABATEMENT (derived through the French abattre, from the Late Latin battere, to beat)

ABATEMENT IN COMMERCE

ABATEMENT IN HERALDRY

ABATEMENT IN LITIGATION

ABATEMENT IN PLEADING

ABATEMENT OF A NUISANCE

ABATEMENT OF DEBTS AND LEGACIES

ABATEMENT OF FALSE LIGHTS

ABATEMENT OF FREEHOLD

ABATTOIR (from abatire, to strike down)

FIRMIN ABAUZIT (1679-1767)

ABBA MARI (in full, Abba Mari ben Moses benJoseph)

ANTOINE THOMSON ABBADIE

JAKOB ABBADIE (1654?–1727)

ABBAS MIRZA (c. 1783—1833)

ABBE (Serbo-Croatian Rai))

ABBESS (Lat. abbatissa, fem. form of abbas, abbot)

ABBEY (Lat. abbatia; from Syr. abba, father)

EDWIN AUSTIN ABBEY (1852– )

ABBON OF FLEURY, or ABBO FLORIACENSIS (c. 945-1004)

ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab

EZRA ABBOT (1819-1884)

GEORGE ABBOT (1603-1648)

ROBERT ABBOT (1588?–1662?)

WILLIAM ABBOT (1798-1843)

EMMA ABBOTT (1849-1891)

JACOB ABBOTT (1803-1879)

JOHN STEVENS CABOT ABBOTT (1805-1877)

LYMAN ABBOTT (1835- )

ABBREVIATION (Lat. brevis, short)

ABDICATION (Lat. abdicatio, disowning, renouncing, from ab, from, and dicare, to declare, to proclaim as not belonging to one)

ABDOMEN (a Latin word, either from abdere, to hide, or from a form adipomen, from adeps, fat)

ABDOMINAL SURGERY

ABDUCTION (Lat. abductio, abducere, to lead away)

ABDUR RAHMAN KHAN

HEINRICH ABEKEN (1809-1872)

ABEL (Hebrew for breath)

ABEL (better ABELL), THOMAS (d. 1540)

KARL FRIEDRICH ABEL (1725-1787)

NIELS HENRIK ABEL (1802-1829)

BART SIR FREDERICK AUGUSTUS ABEL

PETER ABELARD (1079-1142)

JOHANN PHILIPP ABELIN

ABENEZRA (IBN EZRA)

JAMES HAMILTON 1ST EARL OF ABERCORN (c. 1575–1618)

JOHN ABERCROMBIE (178o-1844)

PATRICK ABERCROMBY (1656–c.-1716)

SIR RALPH ABERCROMBY (1734-1801)

HENRY AUSTIN BRUCE ABERDARE

1ST EARL O GEORGE GORDON ABERDEEN (1637-1720)

4TH EARL GEORGE HAMILTON GORDON ABERDEEN

ABERDOVEY (Aberdyfi: the Dyfi is the county frontier)

JOHN ABERNETHY (1680-,74o)

JOHN ABERNETHY (1764-1831)

ABERRATION (Lat. ab, from or away, errare,, to wander)

ABETTOR (from " to abet," O. Fr. abeter, d and beter, to bait, urge dogs upon any one ; this word is probably of Scandinavian origin, meaning to cause to bite)

ABEYANCE (O. Fr. abeance, " gaping")

ABIATHAR (Heb. Ebyathar, "the [divine] father is pre-eminent")

ABIGAIL (Heb. Abigayil, perhaps "father is joy"), or ABIGAL (2 Sam. iii. 3)

ABIJAH (Heb. Abiyyah and Abiyyahu, "Yah is. father")

NIKOLAJ ABRAHAM ABILDGAARD (1744—1809)

ABIMELECH (Hebrew for "father of [or is] the king ")

1ST BARON JAMES SCARLETT ABINGER (1769-1844)

FRANCES ABINGTON (1737-1815)

ABJURATION (from Lat. abjurare, to forswear)

ABKHASIA, or ABHASIA

ABLATION (from Lat. ablatus, carried away)

ABLATITIOUS (from Lat. ablatus, taken away)

ABLATIVE (Lat. ablativus, sc. cases, from ablatum, taken away)

ABLUTION (Lat. ablutio, from abluere, " to wash off ")

ABNAKI (" the whitening sky at daybreak," i.e. Easterners)

ABNER (Hebrew for "father of [or is a] light ")

ABO (Finnish Turku)

ABO UBAIDA [Ma'mar ibn ul-Muthanna] (728–825)

ABODE (from " abide," to dwell, properly " to wait for ," to bide)

ABOMASUM (caillette)

ABOMINATION (from Lat. ab, from, and orninare, to .fore-bode)

ABORTION (from Lat. aboriri, to fail to be born, or perish)

EDMOND FRANCOIS VALENTIN ABOUT (1828-1885)

ISAAC ABRABANEL

ABRAHAM A SANCTA CLARA (1644—1709)

ABRAHAM CHARLES AUGUSTE

ABRAHAM IBN DAUD (c. 1s 10—118o)

ABRAHAM, or ABRAM (Hebrew for " father is high ")

ABRASION (from Lat. ab, off, and radere, to scrape)

ABRAUM SALTS (from the German Abraum-salze, salts to be removed)

ABRAXAS, or ABRASAX

ABRIDGED BALLISTIC TABLE

ABROGATION (Lat. abrogare, to repeal or annul a law; rogare, literally " to ask," to propose a law)

ABRUZZI E MOLISE

ABSALOM (Hebrew for " father of [or is] peace ")

ABSALON (c. 1128–1201)

ABSCESS (from Lat. abscedere, to separate)

ABSCISSA (from the Lat. abscissus, cut off)

ABSCISSION (from Lat. abscindere)

ABSCOND (Lat. abscondere, to hide, put away)

ABSENCE (Lat. absentia)

ABSOLUTE (Lat. absolvere, to loose, set free)

ABSOLUTION (Lat. absolutio from absolvo, loosen, acquit)

ABSORPTION OF LIGHT

ABSTEMII (a Latin word, from abs, away from, temetum, intoxicating liquor, from which is derived the English " abstemious " or temperate)

ABSTINENCE (from Lat. abstinere, to abstain)

ABSTRACT OF TITLE

ABSTRACTION (Lat. abs and trahere)

FRANZ ABT (1819-1885)

ABU NUWAS [Abtl `Ali Hal-asan ibn Hani'al-Jiakami] (c. 756-810)

ABU TAMMAM [Habib ibn Aus] (807–846)

ABULFEDA [Abu l-Fida' Ismail ibn 'Ali 'Imad-ud-Dni] (1273-1331)

ABUNDANTIA (" Abundance ")

ABUTILON (from the Arabic aubutilslae, a name given by Avicenna to this or an allied genus)

ABYSS (Gr. as, privative, ,6u6QOs, bottom)

ABYSSINIA (officially ETHIOPIA)

ABYSSINIAN CHURCH

ACADIE, or ACADIA

ACANTHUS (the Greek and Latin name for the plant, connected with &sib a sharp point)

ACARUS (from Gr. a.Kapc, a mite)

ACATALEPSY (Gr. &-, privative, and KaraXa,06vew, to seize)

ACAULESCENT (Lat. acaulescens, becoming stemless, from a, not, and caulis, a stem)

ACCA LARENTIA (not Laurentia)

ACCELERATION (from Lat. accelerare, to hasten, celer, quick)

ACCEPTANCE (Lat. acceptare, frequentative form of accipere, to receive)

ACCEPTILATION (from Lat. acceptilatio)

ACCESS (Lat. accessus)

ACCESSION (from Lat. accedere, to go to, to approach)

DONATO ACCIAJUOLI (1428-1478)

ACCIDENCE (a mis-spelling of " accidents," from the Latin neuter plural accidentia, casual events)

ACCIDENT (from Lat. accidere, to happen)

ACCLAMATION (Lat. acclamatio, a shouting at)

ACCLIMATIZATION

ACCOLADE (from Ital. accolata, derived from Lat. collum, the neck)

BENEDETTO ACCOLTI (1415–1466)

BERNARDO ACCOLTI (1465–1536)

PIETRO ACCOLTI (1455-1532)

ACCOMMODATION (Lat. accommodare, to make fit, from ad, to, cum, with, and modus, measure)

ACCOMMODATION BILL

ACCOMPANIMENT (i.e. that which " accompanies ")

ACCOMPLICE (from Fr. complice, conspirator, Lat. complex, a sharer, associate, complicare, to fold together; the ac- is possibly due to confusion with " accomplish," to complete, Lat. complere, to fill up)

VITTORIA ACCORAMBONI (1557-1585)

ACCORD (from Fr. accorder, to agree)

ACCORDION (Fr. accordeon; Ger. Handharmonica, Ziehharmonica)

ACCORSO (Accuxslus), MARIANGELO (c. 1490--1544)

ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

ACCOUTREMENT (a French word, probably derived from d and coustre or coutre, an old word meaning one who has charge of the vestments in a church)

ACCRETION (from Lat. ad, to, and crescere, to grow)

ACCUMULATION (from Lat. accumulare, to heap up)

ACCURSIUS (Ital. AccoRso), FRANCISCUS (1182-1260)

ACCUSATION (Lat. accusatio, accusare, to challenge to a causa, a suit or trial at law)

ACCUSATIVE (Lat. accusativus, sc. casus, a translation of the Gr. aletartKI vrrwves, the case concerned with cause and effect, from atria, a cause)

ACE (derived through the Lat. as, from the Tarentine form of the Gr. etc)

ACEPHALI (from &-, privative, and Ke4a)X1

ACERENZA (anc. Aceruntia)

ACEROSE (from Lat. acus, needle, or acer, sharp)

ACETIC ACID (acidum aceticum)

ACETONE, or DIMETHYL KETONE

ACHAEANS ('AXaioi, Lat. Achivi)

ACHAEMENES (HAKHAMANI)

FRANZ CARL ACHARD (1753-1821)

ERIK ACHARIUS (1757-1819)

ACHELOUS (mod. Aspropotamo, " white river ")

ANDREAS ACHENBACH (1815— )

GOTTFRIED ACHENWALL (1719-1772)

ACHILL (" Eagle ")

DUC DE BROGLIE ACHILLE CHARLES LEONCE VICTOR (1785–187o)

ACHILLES (Gr. 'AxtXXeus)

ACHILLES TATIUS

ALESSANDRO ACHILLINI (1463-1512)

ACHIMENES (perhaps from the Gr. km/aspic, an Indian plant used in magic)

ACHIN (Dutch At1eh)

ACHITE, or AEGIRITE

ACHROMATISM (Gr. a-, privative, xpiaµa, colour)

ACID (from the Lat. root ac-, sharp; acere, to be sour)

VALENS ACIDALIUS (1567-1595)

ACILIO GLABRIONI

ACINACES (from the Greek)

ACINETA (so named by C. G. Ehrenberg)

ACINUS (Lat. for a berry)

FRANCIS ACKERMAN (c. 1335–1387)

JOHANN CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB ACKERMANN (1756–1801)

RUDOLPH ACKERMANN (1764-1834)

ACKNOWLEDGMENT (from the old acknow, a compound of on- and know, to know by the senses, which passed through the forms oknow, aknow and acknow; acknowledge is formed on analogy of " knowledge ")

CHRISTIAN HENRIETTA CAROLINE ACLAND (1750-1815)

BART SIR HENRY WENTWORTH ACLAND

ACME (Gr. 6.Kµii, point)

ACOEMETI (Gr. awl p7ror, sleepless)

ACOLYTE (Gr.axokouOos, follower)

ACOMINATUS (AKOMINATOS), MICHAEL (c. 1140-1220)

GIACOMO ACONCIO (1492-1566?)

ACONITE (Aconitum)

ACONTIUS (Gr. Akontios)

JOSE DE ACOSTA (1 J39?-1600)

URIEL ACOSTA (d. 1647)

ACOUSTICS (from the Gr. &eobav to hear)

ACRE, or AQUIRY

C13H9N ACRIDINE

ACRO (or ACRON), HELENIUS

ACROBAT (Gr. ucpo0arsie, to walk on tiptoe)

ACROGENAE (" growing at the apex ")

ACROLITHS (Gr. arcpoXcOoc, i.e. ending in stone)

ACROPOLIS (Gr. aKpos, top, a6)Xts, city)

ACROPOLITA (AKROPOLITES), GEORGE (1217–1282)

ACROSTIC (Gr. aKpos, at the end, and arixos, line or verse)

ACROTERIUM (Gr. aKpwrijptov, the summit or vertex)

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

ACT OF PARLIAMENT

ACT ON PETITION

ACTA DIURNA (Lat. acta, public acts or records; diurnus, daily, from dies)

ACTA SENATUS, or COMMENTARII SENATUS

ACTINOMETER (Gr. locals, ray, ,arpov, measure)

ACTINOMYCOSIS (STREPTOTRICHOSIS)

ACTIUM (mod. Punta)

ACTON (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG ACTON), 1ST BARON (1834—1902)

BART SIR JOHN FRANCIS EDWARD ACTON

ACTS OF THE APOSTLES

ACUMINATE (from Lat. acumen, point)

CHRISTOVAL DE ACUNA (1597-c. 1676)

ACUPRESSURE (from Lat. acus, a needle, and premere, to press)

ACUPUNCTURE (from Lat. acus, a needle, and pungere, to prick)

ACUTE RHEUMATISM

ADAGIO (Ital. ad agio, at ease)

JOHN ADAIR (d. 1722)

ADALBERT (originally VOYTECH), (c. 950-997)

ADALBERT, or ADELBERT (c. 1000-1072)

ADALIA (med. Antaliyah; the crusaders' Satalia)

ADAM (or ADAN) DE LE HALE (died c. 1288)

ADAM SCOTUS (fl. 118o)

ALEXANDER ADAM (1741–1809)

JULIETTE ADAM (1836– )

LAMBERT SIGISBERT ADAM (1700-1759)

MELCHIOR ADAM (d. 1622)

PAUL ADAM (1862– )

ROBERT ADAM (1728—1792)

SIR FREDERICK ADAM (1781-1853)

WILLIAM ADAM (1751-1839)

ADAMANT (from Gr. aba,uas, untameable)

ADAMITES, or ADAMIANS