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APPENDIX
Example
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Your syrup if the stomack be empty or weake, or the Guts empty,
then put in all Wine and no Vinegar: this is an excellent syrup,
for either by adding or deminishing Simples here unto,
according to the Infirmities and nature thereof it may serve for
any grosse matter in any cold distemper. Wood, Alphabetical.
2 (all of them verbal gerunds)
Nominalization Diminution
Base
< Anglo-Norman diminuciun (...) < Latin dīminūtiōn-em later
spelling of dēminūtiōn-em, n. of action from dēminuĕre (to
lessen)
Definition OED Diminution n. 1. a. The action of diminishing or making
less; the process of diminishing or becoming less; reduction in
magnitude or degree; lessening, decrease. Cf. Diminishing n. 1.,
in same sense.
Earliest attestation c1374 (OED)
Example
An Atrophy is by some taken for a diminution of the body, for
want of good and laudable nutriment (food,) which being rejected
by the parts, must necessarily shrink for want of better nutriture.
Harvey, Morbus.
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Nominalization Directing
Base
Direct (v)
Definition OED Directing n. The action of the verb direct. Cf. Direction n.
1., in same sense.
Earliest attestation 1530 (OED)
Example
(...) that a well pois’d Needle, being by the touch of a good
Loadstone, excited and brought to turn one of its ends to the
North and the other to the South, it may by a contrary touch of
the same Loadstone be deprived of the faculty it had of directing
its determinate extreams to determinate Poles. Boyle,
Magnetism.
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1 (verbal gerund)
Nominalization Direction
Base
< Latin dīrectiōn-em, n. of action from dīrig-ĕre (to direct)
Definition OED Direction n. 1. The action or function of directing: c. of
instructing how to proceed or act aright; authoritative guidance,
instruction. Cf. Directing n., in same sense.
Earliest attestation 1509 (OED)
Example
(...) for as strong medicines, which make agitation of humors are
not good to be vsed for this intention: so gentle medicines taken
in due time, doe great good to the sight: which I doe leaue to the
appointment and direction of a learned Phisition. Bailey,
Preseruation.
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