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APPENDIX
Nominalization Pursuance
Base
Pursue (v)
Definition OED Pursuance n. 1. The action of continuing or going on with
an action, process, etc.; furtherance, continuance; an instance of
this.
Earliest attestation 1601 (OED)
Example
(...) tho if it [^p.21^] exceeds its natural state in these properties,
another bleeding must be appointed in pursuance of the abovementioned
design, which will prevent the use of bleeding in
Fevers, as we use a charm to blood, and that all. Cockburn,
Continuation.
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Putting
Put (v)
OED Putting n1. 3. The action of placing, laying, setting, etc.
a1400 (OED)
By which policie skilful Acron deliuered Athenes in Gretia, and
diuine Hippocrates abdera~ in Thratia fro~ y=e= pestile~ce, &
preserued fro~ the same other the cities in Grece, at diuerse
times co~yng with the wynde fro~ æthiopia illyria & pæonia, by
putting to the fires wel smelling garla~des, floures & odoures, as
Galene and Soranus write. Caius, Sweatyng.
4 (3 of them verbal gerunds)
Nominalization Putrefaction
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< Middle French putrefaction, (...) < classical Latin putrefact–,
past participial stem of putrefacere (to putrefact) + –iō (–ation)
Definition OED Putrefaction n. 1. The state of being putrid; rottenness; the
process or action of putrefying or rotting; spec. the
decomposition by bacteria of dead animal or plant tissue, which
becomes foul-smelling as a result. Cf. also Putrification n. and
Putrefying n., in same sense.
Earliest attestation a1400 (OED)
Example
For as fire in hardes or straw, is sone in flambe & sone oute,
euen so heate in the spirites, either by simple distemperature, or
by infection and putrefaction therin conceyued, is sone in flambe
and sone out, and soner for the vehemencye or greatnes of the
same, whiche without lingering, consumeth sone the light matter,
(...). Caius, Sweatyng.
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Putrification
< post-classical Latin putrificat–, past participial stem of
putrificare (to cause to rot) (...) + –ficus (–fic)
OED Putrification n. = putrefaction. Cf. Putrefaction n. and
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