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APPENDIX<br />

Nominalization Dissipation<br />

Base<br />

< Latin dissipātiōn-em, n. of action from dissipāre (to dissipate)<br />

Definition OED Dissipation n. 2. The passing away or wasting of a<br />

substance, or form of energy, through continuous dispersion or<br />

diffusion.<br />

Earliest attestation 1545 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

(...) and so far it's agreeing to ours, that it confirms the latter<br />

branch, viz. that it's a devouring corruption of the essential<br />

mixture, which consisting chiefly of an oyly moisture is<br />

corruptible through dissipation, or being dryed away, which<br />

Galen here intends by dryness, to wit the drying away of the<br />

Balsamick moisture. Harvey, Morbus.<br />

Tokens 3<br />

Nominalization Dissolution<br />

Base<br />

In some senses < French dissolution (...), in others < Latin<br />

dissolūtiōn-em, n. of action from dissolvĕre (to break up)<br />

Definition OED Dissolution n. 1. a. Separation into parts or constituent<br />

elements; reduction of any body or mass to elements or atoms;<br />

destruction of the existing condition; disintegration,<br />

decomposition. Cf. Dissolving n., in same sense.<br />

Earliest attestation 1398 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

(...) but it's rather an Absorbing (sucking up) or devouring of the<br />

parts by Corrupting their Fundamentals, whereby every part doth<br />

not only shrink, but grows sensibly less in its substance, so as the<br />

parts, as far as they are consumed, can never be recovered, or<br />

made greater, by reason of the dissolution and corruption of<br />

their Fundamental mixture, and the return of their substantial<br />

principles into their first elements;(...). Harvey, Morbus.<br />

Tokens 10<br />

Nominalization Dissolving<br />

Base<br />

Dissolve (v)<br />

Definition OED Dissolving n. The action of the verb dissolve, in various<br />

senses. Cf. Dissolution n. 1. a., in same sense.<br />

Earliest attestation 1398 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

Cantharides and Psillie: by reason the matter of these things<br />

through natures working groweth more particular, & is not<br />

stored with such varietie (as I may so call them) of potentiall<br />

natures: whereby it might seeme the verie indiuiduall substance<br />

indifferently to subiect it selfe either for nourishment or poison:<br />

let the consideration of the earth carrie vs yet farther to the<br />

dissoluing of this knot also. Bright, Melancholy.<br />

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Nominalization<br />

Distemperance<br />

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