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person or thing) as unworthy of regard or notice; disdain,
contempt; contemptuous behaviour or treatment.
Earliest attestation c 1374(OED)
Example
For Aristotle sayeth, yf the Nose-thrills be too thinne or to wyde,
by great drawing in of ayre, it betokeneth great straightnes of
hart and indignation of thought. Vicary, Anatomie.
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Nominalization Infarction
Base
n. of action < Latin infarcīre (to infarct)
Definition OED Infarction n. Pathol. The action of stuffing up or condition
of being stuffed up, obstruction; concr. the substance with which
a vessel or other part is stuffed up, or a portion of tissue thus
affected (= infarct n.). Now usually restricted to morbid
conditions of the tissues resulting from obstruction of the
circulation, as by an embolus.
Earliest attestation 1666 (EMEMT)
Example
AN Hypochondriack Consumption is an extenuation of the fleshy
parts, occasioned by an infarction (clogging and over filling,)
and obstruction of the Spleen, pancreas, mesaraick, and
Stomachick Vessels, through melancholly, or gross, dreggish,
tartarous humours; (...). Harvey, Morbus.
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Nominalization Infection
Base
post-classical Latin infection-, (...) < classical Latin infect–, past
participial stem of inficere (to infect) + –iō (–ation)
Definition OED Infection n. 4. Originally: disease, esp. infectious or
communicable disease; an instance of this; an outbreak of
disease; an epidemic. In later use also: invasion and growth of
microorganisms or other parasitic organisms within the body (or
an organ, wound, cell, etc.), esp. when causing disease; the
condition produced by this; an instance of this.
Earliest attestation ?a1425 (OED)
Example
Fourthly by the passion of the hart. For the flusshing or wynde
comming in the vtter and extreame partes, is nothing els but the
spirites of those same gathered together, at the first entring of the
euell aire, agaynste the infection therof, & flyeng the same from
place to place, for their owne sauegarde. Caius, Sweatyng.
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Definition
Earliest attestation
Example
Inferring
Infer (v)
OED Inferring n. The action of infer; the drawing of inferences.
1543 (EMEMT)
The saide seconde ventricle is smal and thynne, and it passethe
frome the fyrste, to the last, and toucheth bothe. And therfore it is
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