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exactly what a thing is, or what a word means.
Earliest attestation 1645 (OED)
Example
I have run through those five introductory points of Chirurgerie;
to wit, of the antiquity and dignity of it: of the professors of it, of
its place amongst the liberall Arts, of the definition and parts of
the same. Read, Workes.
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Nominalization Defluxion
Base
< French défluxion (...) < Latin dēfluĕre (to flow down, also, to
fall off [as hair]).
Definition OED Defluxion n. 2. Pathol. a. A supposed flow of ‘humours’ to
a particular part of the body, in certain diseases.
Earliest attestation c1550 (OED)
Example
The dose is from three graines to fiue, to procure sleepe, to
aswage the paines of those that are troubled with the collicke,
with the Plurisie, with the Stone, and with the Goute: to stay the
Cough, the Fluxe of the Belly, spitting of bloud, and Defluxions
of huours, &c. Clowes, Artificiall.
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Nominalization Deliberation
Base
< French délibération, (...) < Latin dēlīberātiōn-em, n. of action
from dēlīberāre (to deliberate)
Definition OED Deliberation n. 1. The action of deliberating, or weighing a
thing in the mind; careful consideration with a view to decision.
Earliest attestation c1374 (OED)
Example
Likewise they shal geue no counsayle except they be asked, and
then say their aduise by good deliberation; and that they be wel
advised afore they speake, chefly in the presence of wise men.
Vicary, Anatomie.
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Nominalization Deligation
Base
< Latin *dēligātiōn-em, n. of action from dēligāre
Definition OED Deligation n. 1. Surg. †a. Bandaging; a bandage. Obs.
Earliest attestation 1661 (OED)
Example
The Third Intention is, Deligation, or retaining the Parts so
joyned together. [/15./] For the effecting of this, our famous
Masters have left us two principal means, Fasciæ and Suturæ,
Rowling and Stitching: to which some, nay most of them, added
Fibulas, or Clasps. Wiseman, Wounds.
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Definition
Deliverance
Deliver (v)
OED Deliverance n. †2. The being delivered of offspring, the
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