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An elder or presbyter in the early Church.

A holy war undertaken by Muslims.

(chiefly WWI) An experienced soldier.

A new beginning or rebirth; regeneration.

A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.

(properly) History before written records, inclusive of both

A member of the 18th-century Blue Stockings Society

Administrative division of the later Roman Empire, starting with the tetrarchy.

Any of a group of basal or primitive Late Paleozoic synapsid amniotes, part of a polyphyletic grade, formerly regarded as order Pelycosauria.

A small civilian settlement outside a Roman fort.

The humanistic study of historical linguistics.

A British citizen during the reign of a king named George.

To bring (something) into practice.

To structure in terms of dates; to put onto a timescale.

A misunderstanding of the etymology of a word appealing to the unlearned mind; an etymology that incorrectly explains the origin of a word based on a judgement out of knowledge or passions of a common speaker of the language instead of expertise in its past.

To seize and reassign.

A form of land ownership under the feudal system, where a family held an estate in exchange for rendering a service to their liege lord.

A tax formerly paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.

One who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.

Any of various old coins of England and Scotland.