I feel a bit badly using words in such quick succession. I feel somewhat that there ought to be a significant gap between the words I choose to put up here. Usually there is; sometimes I’ve read through 50 or 60 words to find another that I wanted to post about. This time it’s two in a row and the next will make it 3 out of a series of 5.
adeem
To take away; spec. in Rom. Law, to revoke the bequest of (a legacy, etc.).