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they could not but agree in the thing it self, or otherwise they
could not be estimated both rational. Harvey, Morbus.
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Mistaking
Mistake (v)
OED Mistaking n. The action of mistake; misunderstanding,
misconception; †wrongdoing (obs.); an instance of this.
a1400 (OED)
(...) but the case is altered, for now he did againe, most bitterly
reuile him, for mistaking of his griefe: I must needs say, his
Phisitian was a man of a curteous inclination, (...). Clowes,
Artificiall.
2 (one of them a verbal gerund)
Nominalization Misunderstanding
Base
Misunderstand (v)
Definition OED Misunderstanding n. 1. Failure to understand; mistaking of
the meaning of something; an instance of this, a misconception or
misinterpretation.
Earliest attestation c1443 (OED)
Example
Thinkynge it also better to write this in Englishe after mine own
meanyng, then to haue it translated out of my Latine by other
after their misunderstandyng. Caius, Sweatyng.
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Mixing
Mix (v)
OED Mixing n. 1. a. The action of mix (in various senses); an
instance of this. Cf. also Mixture n. 4. a., in same sense.
1525 (OED)
Secondly, by mixing two such liquid Bodies as Petroleum and
strong Spirits of Nitre in a certain proportion, and then distilling
them till there remained a drymass, I obtain’d a brittle substance
as black as Jet; (...). Boyle, Magnetism.
1 (verbal gerund)
Nominalization Mixture
Base < Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French mixture (...) <
mixtus (mixed) + –ūra (–ure)
Definition OED Mixture n. 4. a. The action or process of mixing or of
becoming mixed; the fact of being mixed or combined; an
instance of this. Now rare. Cf. also Mixing n. 1. a., in same sense.
Earliest attestation 1530 (OED)
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The distemperance of blud hapneth by one of thother humors,
through the inordinate or superfluous mixture of them, and not
of him self, for blud is temperate of his proper quality as saith
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