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The vulgar Ax is the more correct (Saxon, axian, to ask). In assenting to Bills, the king used to reply, “Be it as it is axed.” Chaucer says in the Doctor of Medicine’s Tale, “For my werke nothing will I axe.” Launfal, 1027, has, “Ho that wyll there axsy justus.” Other quotations could easily be added.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Ascot Races
Ascræan Poet
Asgard
Ash Tree
Ash Wednesday
Ashmolean Museum
Ashtaroth
Ashur
Asinus
Asir
~ Ask
Ask and Embla
Aslo
Asmodeus [the destroyer]
Asmodeus
Asoka
Asoors
Aspasia
Aspatia
Aspen
Aspersions

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