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In the list below, selected words are linked to their OED entry. Also provided are links to earlier known uses of some of the words. 288 Let us retain amovability on the concurrence of the executive and legislative branches. Paring off the amphibologisms into which they have been led. Angloman 1787 T. Jefferson Writ.