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Earliest attestation c1374 (OED)
Example
Take Cammomile and Centory, stam them, and wring out the
juice, drink it in Butter-milk, Posset-Drink, mingled with Wine,
with continuance, and you shall find perfect Cure: Probatum est.
Woolley, Supplement.
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Nominalization Continuation
Base < French continuation (...) < Latin continuātiōnem, n. of action <
continuāre (to continue)
Definition OED Continuation n. †1. The action of continuing in any course
of action; perseverance, persistency. Obs. Cf. Continuance n. 1.
a., in similar sense.
Earliest attestation c1374 (OED)
Example
(...) that the heat of the fire agitating and rarifying the waterish,
transparent, and volatile water that is contain’d in them, by the
continuation of that action, does so totally expel and drive away
all that which before fill’d the pores, and was dispers’d also
throughthe solid mass of it, (...). Hooke, Micrographia.
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Nominalization Contraction
Base
< French contraction (...) < Latin contractiōn-em, n. of action
from contrahĕre (to contract)
Definition OED Contraction n. 5. b. Pathol. ‘A term for the shortening of a
muscle from some morbid cause; also, a morbid shortening of
any structure whether accompanied or not by alteration of tissue’
(New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).
Earliest attestation 1630 (EMEMT)
Example
The water quickens the eyesight. The oyle is good against
Contraction, and stifnes of members. The Balme for wounds.
Bonham, Chyrvrgians.
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Nominalization Contusion
Base < French contusion, < Latin contūsiōn-em crushing, bruising, n.
of action < contundĕre (to contuse)
Definition OED Contusion n. 1. a. The action of bruising, or condition of
being bruised.
Earliest attestation c1400 (OED)
Example
Now let a Wound be made where it will, and how it's made
matters not, whether it be by Cutting or Contusion; only there is
this difference between those Wounds called incised, and those
called contused ones, (...). Colbatch, Novum.
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