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Now 'tis the uncertainty of the Sweating Medicins we use for
compassing our design of evacuation that occasions this great
difficulty in our first intention, because sometimes they are given
without any success, but heighten the Pulse, and encrease the
other severe symptoms we see in Fevers; (...). Cockburn,
Continuation.
2 (all of them verbal gerunds)
Nominalization Competition
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< Latin competītiōn-em (...) < competĕre (to compete)
Definition OED Competition n. 1. a. ‘The action of endeavouring to gain
what another endeavours to gain at the same time’ (Johnson); the
striving of two or more for the same object; rivalry. Now largely
used in connection with competitive examinations.
Earliest attestation a1608 (OED)
Example
(...) if our Patient be troubl'd with a Distemper that proceeds
from too much blood, and we desire to be so nice, as to relieve
him of all the offending quantity, and not to impair his strength,
or having others sicknesses that require Phlebotomy for their
cure, and the strength of the patient comes in competition, so
that is never to be injur'd; (...). Cockburn, Continuation.
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Nominalization Composition
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< French composition, (...) < compōnĕre (to compose)
Definition OED Composition n. 1. The action of putting together or
combining; the fact of being put together or combined;
combination (of things as parts or elements of a whole).
Earliest attestation c1386 (OED)
Example
For the Grecians dyd call vnguentes onely aromatick oyles,
wherewyth they dyd annoynt the body. The Cerotes they called
suche medicynes as receyued into their composition oyle and
waxe. Gale, Institution.
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Definition
Earliest attestation
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Compression
< French compression, (...) < comprimĕre (participial stem
compress–) (to compress)
OED Compression n. 1. a. The action of compressing; pressing
together, squeezing; forcing into a smaller compass; condensation
by pressure.
c1400 (OED)
(...) a wise Physician easily foresees that the vessels of those
parts that come first to the ground, will be considerably
comprest, and that by this compression the blood cannot move so
easily through those parts, and by its stopping there, will produce
terrible symptoms, according to the greatness of the
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