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Example
And therfore the solution of the continuite of the same (as
Hypocrates sayeth) receaueth not restauration, after the fyrste
intencion of restorynge and consoundynge of membres. De Vigo,
Excellent.
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Nominalization Constitution
Base
< French constitution, (...) < Latin constitūtiōn-em, n. of action
from constituĕre (to constitute)
Definition OED Constitution n. 1. a. The action of constituting, making,
establishing, etc.
Earliest attestation 1566 (EMEMT)
Example
But to the constitution of the parts of mans body, occult
proprerties do belong, and many actions are done by them.
Therefore occult qualities belong to the health of man. Sennert,
Practical.
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Nominalization Consumption
Base < Anglo-Norman and Middle French consumpcion, (...) <
consumpt–, past participial stem of consūmere (to consume) + –iō
(–ation)
Definition OED Consumption n. 2. a. Originally: †abnormality or loss of
humours, resulting in wasting (extreme weight loss) of the body;
such wasting; (obs.). Later: disease that causes wasting of the
body, spec. tuberculosis. Now chiefly hist.
Earliest attestation a1398 (OED)
Example
(...) it's evident, that the Fundamental parts must necessarily
come into danger, which being once attaqued (forcibly enter'd
upon,) and considerably consumed, the superstructure (or the
whole body, that's built upon the Fundamental parts,) must
unavoidably fall and come to ruine; which degree of
Consumption we term proper Consumption, as obtaining its seat
in the foundation of the body, and admitting for the most part of
no cure, or at least a very difficult one. Harvey, Morbus.
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Nominalization
Base
Definition
Earliest attestation
Example
Contagion
< French contagion, or < Latin contāgiōn-em (...) < con–
(together) + tangĕre (to touch)
OED Contagion n. 1. a. The communication of disease from
body to body by contact direct or mediate.
c1522 (OED)
If it be taken for the thing poysoned, it is of a double nature:
some are bodies and act by a bodily contract, and though they
touch not all with their own body, yet they send forth Atoms and
small bodies that infect, and move to & fro in the air in the time
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