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Earliest attestation a1382 (OED)
Example
After these I translated out of Greke into Latine a litle boke of
Nicephorus, declarynge howe a man maye in praiynge confesse
hym selfe, which after I dyd geue vnto [^f.7r^] Jho~ Grome
bacheler in arte, a yong man in yeres, but in witte & learnyng for
his tyme, of great expectatio~. Caius, Sweatyng.
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Nominalization Precipitation
Base
< Middle French, French précipitation (...) < praecipitāt–, past
participial stem of praecipitāre ( to precipitate) + –iō (–ation)
Definition OED Precipitation n. 6. Chiefly Chem. a. The separation and
deposition of a substance from solution in a liquid in a solid,
often powdery or flocculent, form, as a result of chemical action,
cooling, etc.; the formation of a precipitate; an instance of this;
(Immunol.) the combination of an antibody and an antigen to
form an insoluble complex; (Metall.) the separation of crystals of
a solute phase from a solid solution .
Earliest attestation c1550 (c1477) (OED)
Example
That is petrify’d Wood having lain in some place where it was
well soak’d with petrifying water that is, such a water as is well
impregnated with stony and earthy particles did by degrees
separate, either by straining and filtration, or perhaps, by
precipitation, cohesion or coagulation, abundance of stony
particles from the permeating water, (...). Hooke, Micrographia.
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Nominalization Preparation
Base
< Middle French preparacion, (...) < praeparāt–, past participial
stem of praeparāre + –iō (–ation)
Definition OED Preparation n. 1. b. The action of preparing, or the
condition of being prepared; the action of putting or setting
something or someone in order for any action or purpose; making
or getting ready; fitting out. Freq. with for.
Earliest attestation a1393 (OED)
Example And [^p.19^] Montagnana doeth mention a certaine [/73./]
kinde of preparation of the iuice of fenell, singular good to
preserue the sight from dimnesse, to take the iuce of fenell in the
month of Aprill, and to put it in a vessell of glasse, with a long
and narrow necke, and let it stand fifteene daies in the sunne,(...).
Bailey, Preseruation.
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Nominalization
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Definition
Preservation
< Middle French préservation (...) < praeservat–, past participial
stem of praeservare (to preserve) + classical Latin –iō (–ation)
OED Preservation n. 1. The action of preserving from damage,
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