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APPENDIX<br />

Conserving n., in same sense.<br />

Earliest attestation a1398 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

(...) as I shall elsewhere endeavour to manifest when I come to<br />

shew the use of the air in respiration, and for the preservation of<br />

the life, nay, for the conservation and restauration of the health<br />

and natural constitution of mankind (...). Hooke, Micrographia.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

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Conserving<br />

Conserve (v)<br />

OED Conserving n. The action or process of conserve (in various<br />

senses); (in early use) preservation, maintenance; (now freq.)<br />

conservation. Cf. Conservation n. 1. a., in same sense.<br />

1413 (OED)<br />

The second is, in bringing the Lips of the Wound even together,<br />

which were separated. The third is, in retaining the Lips so<br />

brought together, that they may by Consolidation be restored to<br />

their former figure. The fourth is, in conserving the<br />

Temperament and natural Heat of the Part, in order to Unition.<br />

The fifth is, in preventing ill Accidents, and correcting such as<br />

have already seized on the Part. Wiseman, Wounds.<br />

1 (verbal gerund)<br />

Nominalization Consideration<br />

Base<br />

< French considération (...) < consīderāre (to consider)<br />

Definition OED Consideration n. 2. a. The keeping of a subject before the<br />

mind; attentive thought, reflection, meditation. Cf. Considering n.<br />

1, in same sense.<br />

Earliest attestation c1386 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

(...) and almost every day observing the Inconveniences that<br />

attended those People who had occasion to make use of them;<br />

for my own satisfaction, and the good of Mankind, I took into<br />

consideration, whether their Methods were agreeable to Reason,<br />

and the Subject upon which they wrought. Colbatch, Novum.<br />

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Considering<br />

Consider (v)<br />

OED Considering n. 1. The action of consider. Cf. Consideration<br />

n. 2. a., in same sense.<br />

1483 (OED)<br />

And yf the Mason Carpenter and Smythe, be so curious and<br />

dyligent, in knowyng, chosyng, and consyderynge of stones,<br />

tymber, and yron, whyche be thynges of no great valour or<br />

estimation: (...). Gale, Institution.<br />

2 (one of them a verbal gerund)<br />

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