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APPENDIX<br />

Definition OED Flexion n. 1. a. The action of bending, curvature; bent<br />

condition; an instance of this.<br />

Earliest attestation 1656 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

(...) the small parts of the Wood have no places or pores into<br />

which they may slide upon bending and consequently little or no<br />

flexion or yielding at all can be caus’d in such a substance.<br />

Hooke, Micrographia.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization Flowing<br />

Base<br />

Flow (v)<br />

Definition OED Flowing n. 1. The action of flow in various senses.<br />

Earliest attestation c950 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

I shall not, nor dare not make a long paraphrase about the sorts<br />

of it, one of which is the water-flag, or flower de luce, which is<br />

hot and dry in the second degree, binds, strengthens, stops fluxes<br />

of the belly, and the immoderate flowing of the terms in women.<br />

Culpeper, London.<br />

Tokens 4<br />

Nominalization Flushing<br />

Base<br />

Flush (v)<br />

Definition OED Flushing n1. 1. The action of the verb flush in various<br />

senses.<br />

Earliest attestation 1552 (EMEMT)<br />

Example<br />

For the flusshing or wynde comming in the vtter and extreame<br />

partes, is nothing els but the spirites of those same gathered<br />

together, at the first entring of the euell aire, agaynste the<br />

infection therof, & flyeng thesame from place to place, for their<br />

owne sauegarde. Caius, Sweatyng.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Lowe, Art.<br />

Tokens 3<br />

Fluxion<br />

< French fluxion, < Latin fluxiōn-em, < flux– participial stem of<br />

fluĕre (to flow)<br />

OED Fluxion n. 1. a. The action of flowing; a flowing or issuing<br />

forth (of water, vapour, etc.). Also, continuous or progressive<br />

motion; continual change. Now rare.<br />

a1555 (OED)<br />

The late Practicioners are of [/35./] opinion to pull out all those<br />

strange things at the first, because then the patient feeleth not<br />

the sore so much as afterward: besides, shortly after the part<br />

doth swell through fluxion of humors, which maketh the wound<br />

narrow, accompanyed with great dolour, more than at first.<br />

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