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APPENDIX<br />

performance, execution. Cf. also Action n. 13., in same sense.<br />

Earliest attestation 1596 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

(...) but that it may rather be the effect of a Material Effluvium,<br />

issuing from, and returning to, the Electrical Body and perhaps<br />

in some cases assisted in its Operation by the external air seems<br />

agreable to divers things that may be observ’d in such Bodies<br />

and their manner of acting. Boyle, Magnetism.<br />

Tokens 3<br />

Nominalization Action<br />

Base<br />

< Anglo-Norman accioun, (…) < āct– past participial stem of<br />

agere (to do) + –iō (–ation)<br />

Definition OED Action n. 13. The exertion of force or influence by one<br />

thing on another; influence, effect; agency. Cf. also Acting n. 3.,<br />

in same sense.<br />

Earliest attestation a1398 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

(...) and if you raise the magnetic needle to the upper part of the<br />

Bar, and apply it as before this will draw the Northern extream,<br />

which theother end of the bar expelled; probably because as ‘its<br />

elsewhere declared, the bar is in tract of time, by the continual<br />

action of the Magnetical effluvia of the Tarraqueous Globe, (...).<br />

Boyle, Magnetism.<br />

Tokens 22<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Tokens<br />

Adding<br />

Add (v)<br />

OED Adding n. The action of add (in various senses); an instance<br />

of this. Cf. also Addition n. 3., in same sense.<br />

a1400 (a1391) (OED)<br />

(...) this is an excellent syrup, for either by adding or<br />

deminishing Simples here unto, according to the Infirmities and<br />

nature thereof it may serve for any grosse matter in any cold<br />

distemper. Wood, Alphabetical.<br />

4 (3 of them verbal gerunds)<br />

Nominalization Addition<br />

Base<br />

< Anglo-Norman addicioun (…) < past participial stem of<br />

addere (to add) + –iō (–ation)<br />

Definition OED Addition n. 3. gen. a. The action, process, or fact of adding<br />

something to something else; the joining of one thing to another<br />

so as to increase it or alter it in some way. Cf. Adding n., in same<br />

sense.<br />

Earliest attestation 1440<br />

Example<br />

Such are the Juices of Senna, Rhubarb, Angelica, Liquorice,<br />

Hellebore, &c. which are drawn forth by the addition of Liquor,<br />

and which being filter’d, are evaporated over a small fire; (...).<br />

Charas, Royal.<br />

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