The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

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Avic!reti
Avic!reti [a + vic!reti] not to examine VvA 336.
Avicca'
Avicca' at J v.434 read avivicca' [a + vivicca'] i. e. not secretly, openly.
Avij!na'
Avij!na' [a + vij!na'] not knowing, ignorant >h 38, 60; It 103.
Avijj!
Avijj! (f.) [Sk. avidy!; fr. a + vid] ignorance; the main root of evil and of continual rebirth (see pa&icca --
samupp!da, cp. S ii.6, 9, 12; Sn p. 141 & many other passages). See on term Cpd. 83 n. 3, 187 sq, 262 sq.
& for further detail vijj!. avijj! is termed an anusaya (D iii.254, 282; S iv.205, 208 sq., 212); it is one of the
!sav! (Vin iii.4; D i.84; iii.216; It 49; Dhs 1100, 1109), of the ogh! (D iii.230, 276; Dhs 390, 1061, 1162),
of the n"vara*!ni (S ii.23; A i.223; It 8; Dhs 1162, 1486), of the sa'yojan!ni (D iii.254; Dhs 1131, 1460).
See for various characterisatons the foll. passages: Vin i.1; iii.3; D iii.212, 230, 234, 274; M i.54, 67, 144; S
ii.4, 26, 263; iii.47, 162; iv.256; v.52; A i.8, 285; ii.132, 158, 247; iii.84 sq., 414; iv.228; It 34 (y! k!c! im!
duggatiyo asmi' loke paramhi ca avijj!m(lak! sabb! icch! -- lobha -- sammussay!), 57, 81; Sn 199, 277,
729 (j!ti -- mara*a -- sa's!ra' ye vajanti punappuna' . . . avijj!y!eva s! gati), 730, 1026, 1033 (avijj!ya
nivuto loko); Dh 243; Nd2 99; Pug 21; Dhs 390, 1061, 1162; DhA iii.350; iv.161 (˚paligha).
Aviññ!*aka
Aviññ!*aka (adj.) [a + viññ!*a + ka] senscless, without feeling or consciousness, unfeeling DhA i.6
(saviññ!*aka +).
Aviññ(
Aviññ( (adj.) = aviddasu.
Avitakka
Avitakka (adj.) [a + vitakka] free from thought D iii.219, 274; Th 2, 75 ("where reasonings cease" trsl.);
Dhs 161 ("free from the working of conception" trsl.), 504 etc.
Avid(ra
Avid(ra (adj.) [a + vid(ra] not far, near; usually in loc. ˚e as adv. near Sn. 147.
Aviddasu
Aviddasu (adj.) [a + viddasu] ignorant, foolish Sn 762 (= b!la Sn A 509); Dh 268 = Nd2 514 (= aviññ(
DhA iii.395); PvA 18 (so read for avindasu).
Avin!saka (˚ika)