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APPENDIX<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Estimating<br />

Estimate (v)<br />

The act of assigning a value to something.<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Cf. Estimate v. †1. a. trans. To assign a value to; to appraise,<br />

assess; to fix proportionately (penalties, wages, etc.). Const. at.<br />

Obs.<br />

1675-1976 (PPCEME)<br />

And though, by this success of my inquiry, I perceived I could<br />

not, as else I might have done, shew the Curious a new way of<br />

judging of true and false Emralds, yet the like way may be,<br />

though not always certain, yet oftentimes of use, in the<br />

estimating whether Diamonds be true or of counterfeit (...).<br />

Boyle, Magnetism.<br />

Nominalization Estimation<br />

Base Middle English estimacion, (...) < Latin æstimātiōn-em, <<br />

æstimāre (to estimate)<br />

Definition OED Estimation n. 2. a. Appreciation, valuation in respect of<br />

excellence or merit; esteem considered as a sentiment. Phrase, to<br />

have (also hold) in estimation.<br />

Earliest attestation c1522 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

Wher as in deade if for a season they woulde take the more<br />

paynes them selues, & admitte none, but such as shuld be<br />

somwhat meet, there wolde be a nombre glade to studye the art,<br />

because it woulde come to estimation, and be a worshipfull<br />

lyuynge to the professer. Gale, Institution.<br />

Tokens 3<br />

Nominalization Evacuating<br />

Base<br />

Evacuate (v)<br />

Definition OED Evacuating n. In senses of the verb. Also attrib. Cf. also<br />

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

Earliest attestation 1594 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

And therefore the differences of the degrees will not only make<br />

up the true warmth and different pulses, but comparing the<br />

warmths upon occasions in Fevers we can find how much more it<br />

is than that which is natural, and even the exceeding numbers of<br />

pulses, which will not only be of infinite use for evacuating in<br />

Fevers which we propose, but if we compare the different and<br />

vast excesses of heat [^p.25^] that may be in our body, will soon<br />

be convinc'd, that the most violent symptoms may proceed from<br />

them, (...). Cockburn, Continuation.<br />

Tokens 2<br />

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