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APPENDIX<br />

Base<br />

< Middle French, French ostentation (...) < ostentāt–, past<br />

participial stem of ostentāre (to ostentate) + –iō (–ation)<br />

Definition OED Ostentation n. 2. Display intended to attract notice or<br />

admiration; pretentious, vainglorious, or vulgar show; pointed or<br />

exaggerated exhibition, showing off; (also) an instance of this.<br />

Earliest attestation a1475 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

Seeing so many as have written of Tumors have set down one<br />

definition or another, if I should set down all the severall<br />

definitions which are by divers Authors set down, and insist in the<br />

refutation of such definitions as offend against the conditions of a<br />

good definition, I should rather seem to the judicious, to make an<br />

ostentation of reading, and wit, then a care of the profiting of the<br />

hearers. Read, Workes.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization Overfilling<br />

Base<br />

Overfill (v)<br />

Definition OED Overfilling n. The action of overfill; an instance of this.<br />

Earliest attestation 1666 (EMEMT)<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 1<br />

Nominalization Over-labouring<br />

Base<br />

Over-labour (v)<br />

Definition OED Over-labouring n. The action of over-labour; overwork,<br />

excessive toil.<br />

Earliest attestation 1578 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

Lastly, the diminution of parts must be latent (hidden,) not caused<br />

by an overlabouring, or want of sleep, or by being over liberal<br />

in satisfying Womens impertinences, the causes whereof as they<br />

are externally obvious, so they imply no Consumption; (...).<br />

Harvey, Morbus.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Overwaking<br />

Overwake (v)<br />

The action of keeping oneself awake too long.<br />

Cf. Overwake v. Obs. 2. trans. To remain awake longer than.<br />

Also refl.: to keep oneself awake too long.<br />

Add hereunto the continual vigilies (overwaking, or want of<br />

sleep,) melancholique, sorry, dull, lingring passions, the said<br />

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