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APPENDIX<br />

administration; an instance of this. Cf. also Ministration n. 3. a.,<br />

in same sense.<br />

Earliest attestation c1400 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

(...) for they be accompted for no men, because they liue a life<br />

bestiall: wherfore amongst al other sortes of people, they ought<br />

to be sequestred from the ministring of medecine. Vicary,<br />

Anatomie.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization Ministration<br />

Base<br />

< classical Latin ministrātiōn–, (...) < ministrāt–, past participial<br />

stem of ministrāre (to minister) + –iō (–ation)<br />

Definition OED Ministration n. 3. a. With of. The action of supplying,<br />

providing, or giving something (esp. medicine). Now rare. Cf.<br />

Ministering n., in same sense.<br />

Earliest attestation a1425 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

So that the use of Chirurgery is by reason of absolute necessity<br />

more often required than the ministration of medicaments. Read,<br />

Workes.<br />

Tokens 2<br />

Nominalization Misapprehension<br />

Base<br />

Mis– + apprehension<br />

Definition OED Misapprehension n. The action or an act of<br />

misapprehending something; the misunderstanding of the<br />

meaning of something; a mistaken belief or assumption.<br />

Earliest attestation 1629 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

THe common chink, through which errors and erroneous<br />

opinions do and have slipt into the Scholastique republique, to<br />

the endangering and enfoncing (drowning) of truth, is the too<br />

frequent misapprehension of the name of a thing, which being<br />

understood in one sense by me, and in another by you, must<br />

necessarily occasion us to discrepate (disagree) in the thing it<br />

self; (...). Harvey, Morbus.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Misconception<br />

Mis– + conception<br />

OED Misconception n. The action or an act of misconceiving or<br />

misunderstanding something. Now chiefly: a view or opinion that<br />

is false or inaccurate because based on faulty thinking or<br />

understanding.<br />

1658 (OED)<br />

(...) and this certainly is the great cause of so many controversies<br />

and disputes between the Learned, and such others as are equally<br />

ballanced in right reason: now were not the misconception of<br />

the name various between them, being considered really rational,<br />

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