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preserving the original structure of the organism (also known as
mineralization or fossilization).
Earliest attestation ?a1425 (OED)
Example
And indeed, all that I have yet seen, seem to have been rotten
Wood before the petrifaction was begun; (...). Hooke,
Micrographia.
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Nominalization Piercing
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Pierce (v)
Definition OED Piercing n. 1. The action of pierce (lit. and fig.); the act of
piercing, perforating, penetrating, or boring a hole in something.
Earliest attestation c1390 (OED)
Example
This salin sap of the Vessels for being refused reception of the
parts, indues daily a greater [^p.33^] ferocity (fierceness,) and
declares it self in a more hostile (like an Enemy) manner, by
insinuating (peircing) into the profundity (depth) of the parts,
and so drying, absorbing (sucking up,) and consuming the
Radical moisture and Innate heat, arrives to a Proper
Consumption. Harvey, Morbus.
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Nominalization Pissing
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Piss (v)
Definition OED Pissing n. Now chiefly coarse slang. 1. The action of piss
(in various senses); urination.
Earliest attestation a1398 (OED)
Example
The Bladder being hurt, there is great dolour on the sheere-bone
and Ilya, pissing of bloud, voyding of the vryne at the wound,
vomiting of choller, coldnesse of extremities. Lowe, Art.
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Placing
Place (v)
OED Placing n. 1. The action of place; setting, location;
arrangement; an act or instance of this. Also: the fact or condition
of being placed.
c1449 (OED)
Againe by placing the Spheare so as both the Poles may lie
vppon the Horizon, you shall see the shape of the first right
Sphear, wherin the Horizon passeth throgh both the Poles of the
world, and the Equinoctiall passeth through the Poles of the
Horizon, (...). Blundevile, Cosmographie.
2 (all of them verbal gerunds)
Playing
Play (v)
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