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< Old French destemprance, (...) < dis–, (dis–) + Latin
temperāntia (temperance)
Definition OED Distemperance n. 3. Disturbance of ‘humour’, temper, or
mind; = distemper.
Earliest attestation 1566 (EMEMT)
Example
The distemperance of blud hapneth by one of thother humors,
through the inordinate or superfluous mixture of them, and not of
him self, for blud is temperate of his proper quality as saith
Hippocrates [/28./] hauing no contrariety exceding either in
heate or cold, or in cold or heate, or in moist or drith, or in drith
or moisture, (...). Jones, Dial.
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Nominalization Distending
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Distend (v)
Definition The action of stretching beyond measure; drawing out of joint.
Cf. Distension n. 1., in same sense.
Cf. Distend v. †1. †b. To stretch or extend beyond measure; to
strain; to draw out of joint, to rack. Obs. rare.
Earliest attestation 1633 (OED)
Example
(...) whatsoever part is most neruous, is also most sensible: and
therefore the feet upon any little offence, are pained or greeved
the more. Another reason is this, that about every joynt is
wrapped a skinne, and when as a humor hath insinuated it selfe
betweene that and the joynt, in distending of that, untill it bee
resolved, it worketh an intolerable greife; (...). Holland, Gutta.
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Nominalization Distension
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< Latin distensiōn-em, variant of distentiōn-em, n. of action from
distendĕre (to distend); perhaps immed. < French distension
Definition OED Distension n. 1. The action of distending; distended
condition; expansion by stretching or swelling out. Cf.
Distending n., in same sense.
Earliest attestation 1607 (OED)
Example
Another kinde of griefe commeth by way of distention, when as
the veines, and sinewes, and arteries of some one part are fuller
than they should be, then is that part greeved by distention.
Holland, Gutta.
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Definition
Distillation
< Latin dē-, distillātiōn-em, n. of action < dē–, distillāre (to
distill)
OED Distillation n. 3. a. The action of converting any substance
or constituent of a substance into vapour by means of heat, and of
again condensing this by refrigeration into the liquid form, by
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