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APPENDIX<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Tokens<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

c1305 (OED)<br />

(...) the said Hypochondriack patient is præcipitated (forced)<br />

into, whereby the spirits being rendred dull, stupid, languid<br />

(fainting), and suppressed, are deserted (left) incapable of<br />

ventilating (breathing) and purifying the blood, and debilitated<br />

(weakened) in attracting (drawing) nutriment for the parts,<br />

which consequently must wither and shrink. Harvey, Morbus.<br />

14 (6 of them verbal gerunds)<br />

Drawing in<br />

Draw in (v)<br />

The action of breathing in.<br />

Cf. Draw v. (Draw in) 3. To take into the lungs, breathe in,<br />

inhale.<br />

Earliest attestation 1666 (EMEMT)<br />

Example<br />

Moreover nothig we find taints sound Lungs sooner, than<br />

inspiring (drawing in) the breath of putrid (stinking and<br />

beginning to rot) ulcer'd, or Consumptive Lungs; many having<br />

fallen into Consumptions only by smelling the breath or spittle of<br />

Consumptives, others by drinking after them; and what is more,<br />

by wearing the Cloaths of Consumptives, though two years after<br />

they were left off. Harvey, Morbus.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization Dressing<br />

Base<br />

Dress (v)<br />

Definition OED Dressing n. 1. a. The action of dress, in various senses.<br />

Earliest attestation c1440 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

Chiron Achilles his Master is said by Plinie to have had great skil<br />

in the knowledge of simples, and that he was skilful in dressing<br />

of wounds, both his name sheweth, (for it is likely he was called<br />

Chiron, because he was skilfull [^p.5^] in the manuall part: (...).<br />

Read, Workes.<br />

Tokens 2<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Tokens<br />

Drinking<br />

Drink (v)<br />

OED Drinking n. 1. The action or habit denoted by drink; spec.<br />

the use of intoxicating liquor, or indulgence therein to excess.<br />

c1200 (OED)<br />

What then must become of such a one, [^p.347^] after a hard<br />

drinking for many months together, if he chance in heat of drink<br />

to be wounded, and from that time his Chirurgeon condemn him<br />

to Ptisan for a week together, nay two days? Wiseman, Wounds.<br />

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

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