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Definition
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Procuring
Procure (v)
OED Procuring n. †1. The action of causing, arranging, or
bringing about, esp. through an agent; = procurement. Obs.
c1330 (OED)
All which do not one way procure the Gout, but some by breeding
the matter thereof, some by procuring the deflux of the matter,
some by weakning the joynts, making them subject to the deflux.
Holland, Gutta.
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Nominalization Producing
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Produce (v)
Definition OED Producing n. The action of produce (in various senses); the
production of something. Cf. Production n. 1. a., in same sense.
Earliest attestation 1466 (OED)
Example
(...) by natures Mechanical operation (the very paterne of all
arts, both liberall and seruile), is discouered & brought into an
actuall substance consisting of his single & proper nature, which
before had only a potentiall subsistence as members & parts
haue in the whole. Which producing I vnderstand not a
discouerie only, as by withdrawing availe, to shew that which lay
behind it, but a generation and coupling of matter with the
forme: (...). Bright, Melancholy.
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Nominalization Production
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< Middle French production, (...) < prōduct–, past participial
stem of prōdūcere (to product) + –iō (–ation)
Definition OED Production n. 1. a. The action or an act of producing,
making, or causing anything; generation or creation of
something; the fact or condition of being produced. Cf.
Producing n., in same sense.
Earliest attestation c1450 (c1410) (OED)
Example
Secondly, a falling of the small guts into the cod by enlarging or
renting of the production of the Peritonæum, which we call a
rupture. When I come to this point, I will set downe the diversities
of ruptures, and the meanes of curing of each: (...). Read,
Workes.
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Profiting
Profit (v)
OED Profiting n. The action of profit (in various senses). Also:
an instance of this; a benefit, a gain.
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