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APPENDIX<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Tokens<br />

instance of the same. Also with out.<br />

c1400 (c1325) (OED)<br />

Fyrst is the redye and good conceyuynge: then a firme and sure<br />

memorye, nexte a sounde and ryght iudgement, after a easye<br />

callynge thinges to mynde whyche he haue harde or sene, and<br />

laste a lyuelye and sharpe redynes in findynge and inuentynge<br />

remedyes. Gale, Institution.<br />

6 (4 of them verbal gerunds)<br />

Nominalization Finishing<br />

Base<br />

Finish (v)<br />

Definition OED Finishing n. 1. The action of finish. Also with off.<br />

Earliest attestation ?1563 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

Fiorouantus. +R. Alb: ouor. ad duritiem Coctor. +o xij.<br />

Terebint: claræ, +o xiiij. Myrrhæ electæ, +o iij. Commixe and<br />

distill them in a Retort s.a. at the first with a gentle fire,<br />

gradually encreasing the heate vnto the finishing of the<br />

distillation, then seperate the Balme and reserue the same in a<br />

glasse vessell close stopt. Bonham, Chyrvrgians.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization Fixing<br />

Base<br />

Fix (v)<br />

Definition OED Fixing n. 1. a. The action of the verb fix in various senses.<br />

Also with advbs., as fixing out, fixing up; and gerundially with<br />

omission of in.<br />

Earliest attestation 1605 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

But since this knowledge, tho never so hard, is extremely<br />

necessary for the fixing of a certain Method of practice, I'le set<br />

out for once, and if I do miscarry, 'twill be in good company,<br />

among the masterly Heroes in Medicin. Cockburn, Continuation.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Tokens<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Fleering<br />

Fleer (v)<br />

The action of fleer.<br />

1533 (OED)<br />

(...) and moreouer stood in the gap of my defence against other<br />

such, which then were also sore troubled with the Fluxe of a<br />

fowle mouth, & bled me at their pleasure for their common Table<br />

talke, with scoffing, fleering, and deriding aboue manners and<br />

modesty. Clowes, Artificiall.<br />

1 (verbal gerund)<br />

Flexion<br />

< Latin flexiōn-em, n. of action < flectĕre (participial stem flex–)<br />

(to bend)<br />

357

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