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Definition OED Bursting n. 1. a. The process or action of breaking suddenly
and violently, as under tension.
Earliest attestation c1440 (OED)
Example
It is good for them to eate of it that haue the bursting of the guts.
Langham, Garden.
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Burying
Bury (v)
OED Burying n. 1. a. The action of entombing a dead body or
anything similarly treated; burial, interment.
1297 (OED)
(...) but when it is dead, the spirit returning to God, who gave it,
he ceaseth not to be officious to it, in dissecting of it, for the
instruction of himselfe and others, and preserving it from
putrefaction and annoyance, untill time and place fit for burying
of it be offered: (...). Read, Workes.
2 (one of them a verbal gerund)
Nominalization Calculating
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Calculate (v)
Definition OED Calculating n. The action of calculate; calculation: chiefly
attrib., as in calculating-engine, calculating-machine, calculatingmachinery,
etc.
Earliest attestation 1593-1594 (PPCEME)
Example
(...) therefore Georgius Purbachius, and Regio Montanus his
Scholer to auoide that trouble of calculating by Astronomicall
fractions, diuided the diameter of a Circle into a farrre greater
number of parts, (...). Blundevile, Briefe.
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Nominalization Calling
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Call (v)
Definition OED Calling n. I. The action of call.
Earliest attestation a1400 (a1325) (OED)
Example
(...) after a easye callynge thinges to mynde whiche he haue
harde or sene, and laste a lyuelye and sharpe redynes in findynge
and inuentynge remedyes. Gale, Institution.
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Nominalization Casting
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Cast (v)
Definition OED Casting n. The action of the verb cast in various senses. 1.
a. trans. Throwing, throwing up; ejection, vomiting; calculation;
swarming (of bees); arranging, etc. esp. the action or process of
founding (metal or glass).
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