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APPENDIX<br />

detractynge of tyme. Gale, Institution.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization Detriment<br />

Base<br />

< French détriment (...) < dēterĕre (dētrīvi, dētrīt–) (to wear<br />

away, to impair)<br />

Definition OED Detriment n. 1. a. Loss or damage done or caused to, or<br />

sustained by, any person or thing.<br />

Earliest attestation a1440 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

I have not mention'd their Tenting, Probing, and other<br />

nonsensical trumpery, which is still used by most Chirurgeons, to<br />

the great detriment of their Patients, because many judicious<br />

Chirurgeons in all places begin to leave them off; who, I question<br />

not, will be glad to change their old insuccessful way of Practice<br />

altogether, when once inform'd of a better and more certain<br />

Method. Colbatch, Novum.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Tokens<br />

Devising<br />

Devise (v)<br />

OED Devising n. a. The action of the verb devise; contriving,<br />

planning, invention, etc.<br />

c1400 (OED)<br />

And this was ordayned of nature, that the apprehended<br />

semblaunces shuld not passe from one ve~tricle to another, wha~<br />

a man wil cease from exterior operatio~s of the senses, or<br />

thynkyng and deuysyng. De Vigo, Excellent.<br />

3 (one of them a verbal gerund)<br />

Nominalization Dieting<br />

Base<br />

Diet (v)<br />

Definition OED Dieting n. The action of the verb diet.<br />

Earliest attestation c1400 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

Therfore helthful must he nedes be and free from this disease,<br />

that vsethe this kinde of liuynge and maner in dietynge. Caius,<br />

Sweatyng.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Difference<br />

< French différence, (...) < Latin differentia, abstr. n. < differentem<br />

OED Difference n. 1. a. The condition, quality, or fact of being<br />

different, or not the same in quality or in essence; dissimilarity,<br />

distinction, diversity; the relation of non-agreement or nonidentity<br />

between two or more things, disagreement. Cf.<br />

Differencing n., in same sense.<br />

1340 (OED)<br />

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