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APPENDIX<br />

Nominalization Evacuation<br />

Base<br />

< late Latin ēvacuātiōn-em, n. of action < ēvacuā-re (to evacuate)<br />

Definition OED Evacuation n. The action of evacuating; the condition of<br />

being evacuated. 1. spec. a. Med. The action or process of<br />

depleting (the body or any organ), or of clearing out (morbid<br />

matter, ‘humours’, etc.), by medicine or other artificial means.<br />

rare in recent use. Cf. also Evacuating n., in same sense.<br />

Earliest attestation c1400 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

If it happen by great euacuation of bloud, it is mortall, as sayth<br />

Hippocrates, and better it is, that a feuer come in a convulsion,<br />

then convulsion in feuer: spasme after feuers, is mortall, as saith<br />

Hipocrates? Lowe, Art.<br />

Tokens 14<br />

Nominalization Evaporating<br />

Base<br />

Evaporate (v)<br />

Definition OED Evaporating n. The action of evaporate; lit. and fig. Cf. also<br />

Evaporation n. 1. a., in same sense.<br />

Earliest attestation 1602 (PPCEME)<br />

Example<br />

And for that I wold haue this second Intention made plaine as<br />

much as in me lyeth and also familiarly knowne vnto the studyous<br />

Reader: I doe therfore say, It is meete and conuenient, that those<br />

Medicamentes whic are to be vsed, be of the Nature and property<br />

to molifie and discusse, and so to open the powers of the skinne<br />

by euaporating, breathing and scattering abroad, and make<br />

thinne the grosse matter and Phlegme. Clowes, Artificiall.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization Evaporation<br />

Base < French évaporation, < Latin ēvapōrātiōn-em, n. of action <<br />

ēvapōrā-re (to evaporate)<br />

Definition OED Evaporation n. 1. a. The action or process of conversion<br />

into vapour; the action of passing off in vapour; an instance of<br />

this. Cf. also Evaporating n., in same sense.<br />

Earliest attestation 1398 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

The softer and moister parts being thus melted away, the Febril<br />

(Feaverish) heat continuing its adustion (burning) upon the dryer<br />

fleshy parts, changes into a Marcid Feaver, which said parts<br />

wasting gradually throught an insensible evaporation of their<br />

subtiler particles, are at length dryed up into the hardness and<br />

toughness of Leather. Harvey, Morbus.<br />

Tokens 2<br />

Nominalization Examination<br />

Base < French examination, < Latin exāminātiōn-em, n. of action <<br />

exāmināre (to examine)<br />

Definition OED Examination n. The action of examining; the state of being<br />

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