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APPENDIX<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Tokens 6<br />

OED Pricking n. 1. a. The action or process of piercing,<br />

puncturing, or wounding with, or as with, a pointed instrument or<br />

weapon. Freq. (and in earliest use) fig.: the infliction of mental or<br />

emotional pain, as grief, distress, sorrow, remorse, regret, etc.<br />

Also: an instance of this; a physical, metal, or emotional<br />

wounding.<br />

OE (OED)<br />

A Tertian beginneth with rigour like the pricking of Needles, and<br />

endeth with vaporous sweat. Wood, Alphabetical.<br />

Nominalization Privation<br />

Base<br />

< Anglo-Norman privacioun (...) < priver (to prive) + –ation<br />

Definition OED Privation n. 2. a. The action of depriving a person or thing<br />

of, or of taking something away; the fact of being deprived of<br />

something; deprivation. Now rare.<br />

Earliest attestation a1425(a1400) (OED)<br />

Example<br />

[}Pet.}] What is Paralisie? [}Ioh.}] It is a mollification,<br />

relaxation, or resolution of the nerues, with priuation of the<br />

moouing, whereof there is two kinds, vniuersall and particular.<br />

Lowe, Art.<br />

Tokens 2<br />

Nominalization Probing<br />

Base<br />

Probe (v)<br />

Definition OED Probing n. The action of probe (in various senses); an<br />

instance of this.<br />

Earliest attestation 1665 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

I have not mention'd their Tenting, Probing, and other<br />

nonsensical trumpery, which is still used by most Chirurgeons, to<br />

the great detriment of their Patients, because many judicious<br />

Chirurgeons in all places begin to leave them off; (...). Colbatch,<br />

Novum.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Procreation<br />

< Middle French procreacion, (...) < prōcreāt–, past participial<br />

stem of prōcreāre (to procreate) + –iō (–ation)<br />

OED Procreation n. 1. The action of procreating; reproduction,<br />

generation, propagation of species; the fact of being begotten.<br />

c1395 (OED)<br />

The Astrologians addeth [/62./] to the procreation of these<br />

plages recited, the influence of certain starres endusing the<br />

plage, yea and the times therof shorter or longer to reigne,<br />

againste the whych with Agricola, I saye it pleaseth vs not to<br />

inuay, y=e= Deuines sayeth, the punishment of God for oure<br />

offences: (...). Jones, Dial.<br />

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