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APPENDIX<br />

be rightly ordred & defended, whereby you shall be sure the<br />

better to effect your intended purpose without the said perrill or<br />

daunger but with the highest commendation in preuenting the<br />

euil that otherwise might ensue (...). Clowes, Life.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization Commotion<br />

Base<br />

< Old French com(m)ocion (...) < commovēre (to commove)<br />

Definition OED Commotion n. 2. a. Physical disturbance, more or less<br />

violent; tumultuous agitation of the parts or particles of any thing;<br />

of the sea: turbulence, tossing.<br />

Earliest attestation 1592 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

For the Attrition having caus’d an intestine commotion in the<br />

parts of the Concrete, the heat or warmth that is thereby excited<br />

ought not to cease, as soon as ever the rubbing is over, but to<br />

continue capable of Emitting Effluvia for some time afterwards,<br />

(...). Boyle, Magnetism.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization Communication<br />

Base<br />

< Anglo-Norman communicacioun, (…) < commūnicāt–, past<br />

participial stem of commūnicāre (to communicate) + –iō (–ation)<br />

Definition OED Communication n. 5. a. The action of communicating<br />

something (as heat, feeling, motion, etc.), or of giving something<br />

to be shared; an instance of this.<br />

Earliest attestation c1384 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

And undoubtedly this office hath been performed by most,<br />

laudably, and fruitfully to the praise of the Hall, and mutuall<br />

communication of skill, for the better performing of duties,<br />

which so high a Calling doth require. Read, Workes.<br />

Tokens 3<br />

Nominalization Comparing<br />

Base<br />

Compare (v)<br />

Definition OED Compare n. The action of the verb compare; comparison.<br />

Earliest attestation 1489 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

Bee it so, yet therefore no consequence of reason can inferre,<br />

that nature respecteth not anie aptnes of matter: for in a manner<br />

al things of the earth hath some thinge Alimentarie and<br />

pasturable for all liuing creatures, which may euidently appeare<br />

by comparing of nature. Bright, Melancholy.<br />

Tokens 2<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Compassing<br />

Compass (v)<br />

OED Compassing n. The action of the verb compass.<br />

a1300 (OED)<br />

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