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APPENDIX<br />

Base<br />

< Latin explānātiōn-em, n. of action < explānāre (to explain)<br />

Definition OED Explanation n. 1. The action or process of explaining; an<br />

instance of the same. Cf. also Explaining n., Explicating n. and<br />

Explication n. 2., in same sense.<br />

Earliest attestation 1382 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

This by the way; but to return to the explanation of the forestated<br />

description: Putrid Feavers depend upon the putrefaction (or a<br />

tendance to Corruption) of the blood, whose immediate effect is<br />

the corruption of the said nutritive (nourishing) humours, (...).<br />

Harvey, Morbus.<br />

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Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

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Explicating<br />

Explicate (v)<br />

OED Explicating n. (in Explicate v.) The action of the verb<br />

explicate. Cf. also Explaining n., Explanation n. 1. and<br />

Explication n. 2., in same sense.<br />

1531 (OED)<br />

(...) and it seems to me, that the reason why he rejects the way of<br />

explicating Attraction by the Emission of the finer parts of the<br />

attrahent to which Hypothesis, if it be rightly proposed I confess<br />

myself very inclinable is grounded upon a mistake, (...). Boyle,<br />

Magnetism.<br />

1 (verbal gerund)<br />

Nominalization Explication<br />

Base < French explication, < Latin explicātiōn-em, n. of action <<br />

explicāre (to explicate)<br />

Definition OED Explication n. 2. The process of developing or bringing out<br />

what is implicitly contained in a notion, proposition, principle,<br />

etc.; the result of this process. Cf. also Explaining n., Explanation<br />

n. 1 and Explicating n., in same sense.<br />

Earliest attestation 1656 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

In the explication whereof, I will first declare what the Gout is:<br />

[/5./] Next what are the causes thereof. Thirdly, by what signes<br />

each cause is to be knowne. Fourthly, whether it may be cured or<br />

no. Fiftly, what kinde of cure belongeth unto it. And lastly, how a<br />

man may bee preserved from it. Holland, Gutta.<br />

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Nominalization Exposition<br />

Base < French exposition, < Latin expositiōn-em, n. of action <<br />

expōnĕre (past participle exposit-us)<br />

Definition OED Exposition n. 4. a. The action or process of setting forth,<br />

declaring, or describing, either in speech or writing.<br />

Earliest attestation 1460 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

(...) your eye may iudg without muche declaracion, so that I shall<br />

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