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APPENDIX<br />

Definition OED Friction n. 1. a. The action of chafing or rubbing (the body<br />

or limbs). (Formerly much used in medical treatment.)<br />

Earliest attestation 1581 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

(...) and is cured by diuerting the fumes with frictions and<br />

ligators of the extremities, vsing Glisters, and rubbing the head<br />

and necke with Oxyrodinum, and diuers other things which may<br />

be prescribed by the learned Phisition. Lowe, Art.<br />

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Nominalization Fumigation<br />

Base<br />

< Latin fūmigātiōn-em, n. of action < fūmigāre (to fumigate)<br />

Definition OED Fumigation n. 1. a. The action of generating odorous smoke<br />

or fumes, esp. as one of the ceremonies of incantation; the action<br />

of perfuming with aromatic herbs, perfumes, etc. Also concr. the<br />

preparation used to produce this, or the fumes resulting from it.<br />

Earliest attestation c1384 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

[}To make a fine Fumigation to cast on the Coles. cap. xliiij.}].<br />

Partridge, Treasurie.<br />

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Gathering<br />

Gather (v)<br />

OED Gathering n. 1. a. The action of the verb gather, in various<br />

transitive senses. Also with in, out, up.<br />

c1050 (OED)<br />

The broth is good against the swellings of the stones, and all<br />

hardnesse and gathering of humours being sodden in wine and<br />

laide to. Langham, Garden.<br />

3 (one of them a verbal gerund)<br />

Generating<br />

Generate (v)<br />

OED Generating n. The action of generate; an instance of this.<br />

Cf. also Generation n. 1. a., in same sense.<br />

1579 (OED)<br />

(...) it's requisite the said Potable Gold should be endued with a<br />

capacity of being agglutinated (glewed,) and assimilated<br />

(converted into a likeness), to the Innate heat and Radical<br />

moisture; or at least be virtuated with a power of generating the<br />

said essentials out of the humours within the Vessels. Harvey,<br />

Morbus.<br />

2 (all of them verbal gerunds)<br />

Generation<br />

< Anglo-Norman generacioun, (...) < generāt–, past participial<br />

stem of generāre (to generate) + –iō (–ation)<br />

OED Generation n. The action of generating. 1. a. The action or<br />

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