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humours, so of melancholie, they affoord the matter, to the which
nature applying her proper temper as an instrument, and
practizing that skill which she hath learned of God, worketh out
both humours and substance for preseruation and nourishment
of our bodies; (...). Bright, Melancholy.
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Nominalization Noying
Base
Noy (v)
Definition OED Noying n. Obs. The action of noy; annoyance; (also) harm,
injury.
Earliest attestation c1398 (OED)
Example
(...) he commeth through the Piamater, of whose substaunce he
taketh a Pannicle or a Cote: and the cause why he taketh that
Pannicle, is to keepe him from noying: (...). Vicary, Anatomie.
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Definition
Earliest attestation
Example
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Numbering
Number (v)
OED Numbering n. The action of number (in various senses); an
instance of this.
c1325 (c1300) (OED)
These pores were so exceeding small and thick, that in a line of
them, 1$$18 of an Inch long, I found by numbring them no less
then small pores; (...). Hooke, Micrographia.
2 (all of them verbal gerunds)
Nominalization Nutrition
Base
< Middle French, French nutrition (...) < classical Latin nūtrīt–,
past participial stem of nūtrīre (to nourish) + –iō (–ation)
Definition OED Nutrition n. 1. a. The action or process of supplying, or of
receiving, nourishment or food. Cf. also Nourishing n. 2.,
Nourishment n.1. and Nutriture 2. †a., in same sense.
Earliest attestation ?a1425 (OED)
Example
(...) I should first begin with the Formation of the Fœtus, and its
original constituent parts, with the manner of its Nutrition and
Increase before all the parts are perfect, and how after, till the
time of Birth; the performance of which task only is sufficient for
a Volume: (...). Colbatch, Novum.
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Nominalization
Base
Definition
Nutriture
< post-classical Latin nutritura nourishment (...) < classical Latin
nūtrīt–, past participial stem of nūtrīre (to nourish) + –ūra (–ure)
OED Nutriture n. 2. †a. Nourishment, nutrition. Obs. Cf. also
Nourishing n. 2., Nourishment n.1. and Nutrition n. 1.a., in same
sense.
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