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APPENDIX<br />

Tokens 2<br />

Nominalization Obstruction<br />

Base<br />

< classical Latin obstructiōn–, (...) < obstruct–, past participial<br />

stem of obstruere (to obstruct) + –iō (–ation)<br />

Definition OED Obstruction n. 1. The action or an act of blocking or<br />

rendering impassable an opening, passage, thoroughfare, etc.; the<br />

fact or condition of being blocked or impassable; (Med.)<br />

blockage of a body passage, esp. the gastrointestinal, urinary,<br />

biliary, or respiratory tract; an instance of this.<br />

Earliest attestation 1533 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

AN Hypochondriack Consumption is an extenuation of the fleshy<br />

parts, occasioned by an infarction (clogging and over filling,)<br />

and obstruction of the Spleen, pancreas, mesaraick, and<br />

Stomachick Vessels, through melancholly, or gross, dreggish,<br />

tartarous humours; (...). Harvey, Morbus.<br />

Tokens 6<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Tokens<br />

Obtaining<br />

Obtain (v)<br />

OED Obtaining n. The action of obtain.<br />

1470 (OED)<br />

(...) for that by your talke I haue learned what Chirurgiry is, the<br />

antiquitie of it, & noble authours that did professe it, of howe<br />

manye parts it doth consiste on, also what is the subiect or matter<br />

on whych the Chirurgian doth exercyse his art, and what is the<br />

ende or final intention [^f.7v^] of Chirurgerye: nowe I wyll<br />

further desyre you to showe me the waye to procede in lernynge<br />

and obteyning thys noble and famous arte. Gale, Institution.<br />

1 (verbal gerund)<br />

Nominalization Occasion<br />

Base < Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French occasion (...) <<br />

occās–, past participial stem of occidere (to fall) + –iō (–ation)<br />

Definition OED Occasion n1. †5. The action of causing or occasioning<br />

something. Also (in extended use): that which is caused or<br />

occasioned. Obs.<br />

Earliest attestation a1533 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

WHEN as in thys treatise I entend to declare thoccasion of Agues<br />

(almost no degrees excepted that in our time it hath not vexed) it<br />

behoueth fyrst to define what an ague is folowing Cicero, which<br />

[/1./] saith that euery thing which we purpose to speake of must<br />

rise of his definitio~. Jones, Dial.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Offense<br />

< Anglo-Norman and Middle French offense, offence (French<br />

400

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