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APPENDIX<br />

Earliest attestation 1568 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

An Atrophy is by some taken for a diminution of the body, for<br />

want of good and laudable nutriment (food,) which being rejected<br />

by the parts, must necessarily shrink for want of better nutriture.<br />

Harvey, Morbus.<br />

Tokens 2<br />

Nominalization Objection<br />

Base<br />

< Middle French objection (...) < classical Latin obiect–, past<br />

participial stem of obiicere (to object) + –iō (–ation)<br />

Definition OED Objection n. and int. 3. The action or an act of challenging<br />

or disagreeing with something; protest against or opposition to<br />

something; counter-argument.<br />

Earliest attestation 1543 (1466) (OED)<br />

Example<br />

It should seeme (as the obiection importeth) that which before<br />

hath bene attributed to the kind of nourishme~t should rather rise<br />

of the bodie nourished, (...). Bright, Melancholie.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization Observation<br />

Base<br />

< Middle French, French observation (...) < observāt–, past<br />

participial stem of observāre (to observe) + –iō (–ation)<br />

Definition OED Observation n. 7. a. The action or an act of observing<br />

scientifically; esp. the careful watching and noting of an object or<br />

phenomenon in regard to its cause or effect, or of objects or<br />

phenomena in regard to their mutual relations (contrasted with<br />

experiment). Also: a measurement or other piece of information<br />

so obtained; an experimental result. Cf. also Observing n. 2., in<br />

same sense.<br />

Earliest attestation 1559 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

This night, making many tryals and observations of this<br />

Experiment, I met, among a multitude of the Globular ones<br />

whichI had observed, a couple of Instances, which are very<br />

remarkable to the confirmation of my Hypothesis. Hooke, Life.<br />

Tokens 6<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Observing<br />

Observe (v)<br />

OED Observing n. 2. The action of watching, noticing, or<br />

subjecting to scientific observation. Freq. attrib. Cf. also<br />

Observation n. 7. a., in same sense.<br />

1613 (OED)<br />

(...) nor is it my present design o expatiate upon Instances of te<br />

same kind, but rather to give a Specimen of as many kinds as I<br />

have had opportunity as yet of observing, reserving the<br />

prosecution and enlarging on particulars till a more fit<br />

opportunity; (...). Hooke, Micrographia.<br />

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