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passage (...) apparently partly < passare (to pass) + –aticum
(–age), and partly < passus (pace) + –aticum (–age)
Definition OED Passage n. 1. a. The action of going or moving onward,
across, or past; movement from one place or point to another, or
over or through a space or medium; transit. Cf. also Passing n. 1.
b., in same sense.
Earliest attestation c1300 (OED)
Example
[}Pet.}] What is the cause of this putrefaction? [}Io.}] Either
corruption of the spirit vitall, or else viscous and cold humors,
which stop the passage of the vitall spirit, some are causes
primitiues as stroakes, contusion, straight binding, and such like.
Lowe, Art.
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Nominalization Passing
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Pass (v)
Definition OED Passing n. 1. b. The action of going or moving on, through,
or by; an instance of this; the process or fact of changing from
one state to another. Also: †movement, motion (obs.). Cf. also
Passage n. 1. a., in same sense.
Earliest attestation a1398 (OED)
Example
Your Rowler running downwards will press out the Matter from
the affected Part, and by passing upward hinder the influx of
Humours. Wiseman, Wounds.
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Nominalization Penetration
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< Middle French, French pénétration (...) < penetrāt–, past
participial stem of penetrāre (to penetrate) + –iō (–ation)
Definition OED Penetration n. 1. a. The action, or an act, of penetrating,
piercing, or passing into or through something. Occas. also:
permeation, as of one fluid by another.
Earliest attestation ?a1425 (OED)
Example
(...) and if the Wound happen in the Abdomen, it gives a suspicion
(to those that are not well skilled in the Symptoms of Wounds) to
think that it ariseth from the penetration of the Wound, when
there is no such thing; and so by the perseverance in those Rules
the Patient suffers. Wiseman, Wounds.
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Definition
Earliest attestation
Example
Perdition
< Anglo-Norman perdiciun, (...) ( < per– (per–) + dare (to give)
+ –iō (–ation)
OED Perdition n. 1.†b. Chiefly rhetorical. Loss; diminution;
degradation. Obs.
c1555 (OED)
If all the members maye regenerate [^f.6v^] after their perdition,
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