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APPENDIX<br />

Tokens<br />

Corrupting their Fundamentals, whereby every part doth not<br />

only shrink, but grows sensibly (...). Harvey, Morbus.<br />

2 (all of them verbal gerunds)<br />

Nominalization Corruption<br />

Base<br />

< French corruption (...) < Latin corruptiōn-em, n. of action from<br />

corrump-ĕre (to corrupt)<br />

Definition OED Corruption n. The action of corrupting; the fact of being<br />

corrupted; the condition of being corrupt; corrupt matter; a<br />

corrupt example or form; corrupting agency: in the various<br />

physical, moral, and transferred applications of corrupt (adj.).<br />

I. Physical. †1.a. The destruction or spoiling of anything, esp. by<br />

disintegration or by decomposition with its attendant<br />

unwholesomeness; and loathsomeness; putrefaction. Obs. Cf.<br />

also Corrosion n. and Corrupting n., in same sense.<br />

Earliest attestation 1377 (OED)<br />

Example (...) that nourishment hath in it an execremental substance,<br />

which being considered alone though it be not yet poyson, hath in<br />

it a power, meeting with a former, to become of like hurtfull<br />

qualitie: which we see in execrements being permitted to putrifie<br />

and to degenerate of them selues, howe by corruption they<br />

become moste daungerous; (...). Sennert, Practical.<br />

Tokens 22<br />

Nominalization Couching<br />

Base<br />

Couch (v)<br />

Definition OED Couching n. 1. The action of couch, in various senses.<br />

Earliest attestation c1400 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

Here I meane to set down the variety of cataracts, the<br />

prognosticks of them, whereby it shall be knowne which are<br />

curable and which not, and the most exquisite manner of<br />

couching of such as are curable. Read, Workes.<br />

Tokens 2<br />

Nominalization Coughing<br />

Base<br />

Cough (v)<br />

Definition OED Coughing n. The action of the verb cough.<br />

Earliest attestation 1398 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

The membranous part of the Diaphragma being hurt, the flancke<br />

doth retyre with great waight on the part, dolour in the ridge<br />

backe, difficulty to breath, coughing with issue of a spumous<br />

bloud at y=e= wound. Lowe, Art.<br />

Tokens 2<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Counting<br />

Count (v)<br />

OED Counting n. 1. The action of the verb count.<br />

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