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APPENDIX<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Tokens<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Tokens<br />

Quicken (v)<br />

OED Quickening n. 1. a. The action of quicken (in various<br />

senses); an instance of this.<br />

c1400 (OED)<br />

And therefore, he thinks it necessary, both for lessening the<br />

quantity, and perhaps quickening the motion, to cause this<br />

person to be let blood, and that in a considerable quantity, with<br />

very great success. Cockburn, Continuation.<br />

1 (one of them a verbal gerund)<br />

Raising<br />

Raise (v)<br />

OED Raising n. 1. a. The action of raising something (in various<br />

senses) or †of being raised (obs.). Freq. as the final element in<br />

compounds.<br />

a1400 (OED)<br />

(...) and you may doe the like upon the Spheare it selfe by raising<br />

the moouable Meridian aboue the Horizon at that altitude, so as<br />

the 52. degr. may be euen with the Horizon. Blundevile,<br />

Cosmmographie.<br />

1 (verbal gerund)<br />

Nominalization Rarefication<br />

Base<br />

Rarefy + –ation<br />

Definition = Rarefaction (cf. Rarefaction n. 1.a. The state of being rarefied;<br />

the process of becoming rarefied; reduction in the density of<br />

something. Now chiefly with reference to the air or other gas).<br />

Cf. also Rarefying n., in same sense.<br />

Earliest attestation 1525 (EMEMT)<br />

Example<br />

Agaynst swellynge of the gomes wasshe them fyrst with vyneygre<br />

and alome confect togyder/ but fyrst set ventoses w~ [^ORIG.<br />

BLURRED^] raryfycacyon on the necke and sholders/ or sete<br />

the ventoses in the hynder parte of the heed/ and skaryfye it .iii.<br />

dayes/ (...). Anonymous, Newe.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Rarefying<br />

Rarefy (v)<br />

OED Rarefying n. The action of rarefy; an instance of this;<br />

rarefaction. Cf. Rarefaction n. 1. a. and Rarefication n., in same<br />

sense.<br />

1583 (OED)<br />

And 'tis no less certain that this is to be perform'd according to<br />

the different strength and constitutions of our Patients, and with<br />

such Instruments as may not require a larger Evacuation by<br />

rarefying and giving a new motion to the Blood. Cockburn,<br />

Continuation.<br />

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