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APPENDIX<br />

compression, and the office of the part whose vessels are thus<br />

compress'd: (...). Cockburn, Continuation.<br />

Tokens 4<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Tokens<br />

Comprising<br />

Comprise (v)<br />

The action of enclosing.<br />

Cf. Comprise v. 4. Of things material: †a. To take in within its<br />

space; to enclose, to hold. Obs.<br />

1603 (OED)<br />

And as the sinewes that proceede of the noddle, taketh forme of<br />

muscle at the necke and at the breast, & then commeth to the<br />

ioynt of the shoulder. And becommeth rounde strings and<br />

spreading flat in comprising al the ioynt, and doe plant them in<br />

the bone of the ioynt and moueth it. Chauliac, Qvydos.<br />

1 (verbal gerund)<br />

Nominalization Computation<br />

Base < Anglo-Norman and Middle French computation (...) <<br />

computāt–, past participial stem of computāre (to compute) + –iō<br />

(–ation)<br />

Definition OED Computation n. 1. a. The action or process of computing,<br />

reckoning, or counting; arithmetical or mathematical calculation;<br />

an instance of this.<br />

Earliest attestation c1425 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

Therefore I wil now go to the fourth especial cause of infectio~,<br />

the pent aier, breaking out of the ground in yearthquakes, as<br />

chaunced at Uenice in the first yeare of Andrea Dandulo, then<br />

Duke, the .xxiiii. day of Januarye, and xx. hour after their<br />

computacion. Caius, Sweatyng.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization Conceiving<br />

Base<br />

Conceive (v)<br />

Definition OED Conceiving n. The action of conceive; conception.<br />

Earliest attestation a1340 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

Fyrst is the redye and good conceyuynge: then a firme and sure<br />

memorye, nexte a sounde and ryght iudgement, after a easye<br />

callynge thinges to mynde whyche he haue harde or sene, and<br />

laste a lyuelye and sharpe redynes in findynge and inuentynge<br />

remedyes. Gale, Institution.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Conception<br />

< French conception (...) < concip-ĕre, concept– (to conceive)<br />

OED Conception n. 1. a. The action of conceiving, or fact of<br />

being conceived, in the womb.<br />

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