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Againe the Azimuth of the Sunne is a great Circle, passing
through the Zenith and the Center of the Sunne in what part of
the heauen so euer he be, so as he be aboue the Horizon, which
Circle deuideth the Horizon into two equall parts by crossing the
same in two points opposite. Blundevile, Cosmographie.
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Nominalization Curation
Base Middle English, < Old French curacion, < Latin cūrātiōn-em, n.
of action < cūrāre (to cure)
Definition OED Curation n. Obs. 1. The action of curing; healing, cure.
Earliest attestation c1374 (OED)
Example
[}Pet.}] What time of the yeare is most expedient for the curation
of wounds? [}Io.}] The Spring time, the weather being neither
hote nor cold: the Autume is worse, for the moystnesse of the
ayre; also the Winter is enemie to all vlcers and wounds, in the
[/25./] membraynes and bones. Lowe, Art.
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Curing
Cure (v)
OED Curing n. The action of the verb cure. 1. Healing, cure.
a1382 (OED)
Yea, untill the time of Hippocrates, Physick it self seemeth to
have been only a knowledge of simples, fit for curing of internal
diseases, and outward griefes, found out by experience: and that
there were but few precepts concerning the Art, shewing either
the knowledg of particular griefes, or the method of curing of
them; (...). Read, Workes.
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Nominalization Curling
Base
Curl (v)
Definition OED Curling n. 1. The action of the verb curl; a curl, twist,
undulation.
Earliest attestation 1440 (OED)
Example
That false Locks as they call them of some Hair, being by curling
or otherwise brought to a certain degree of driness, or of
stiffness, will be attracted by the flesh of some persons, (...).
Boyle, Magnetism.
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Cutting
Cut (v)
OED Cutting n. 1. a. The action of the verb cut, in various senses.
c1380 (OED)
[}Question.}] WHat is Chyrurgery? [}Aunswere.}] Chyrurgery
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