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APPENDIX<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Tokens<br />

Recruiting<br />

Recruit (v)<br />

OED Recruiting n. The action of recruit, in various senses, esp.<br />

the acquisition of new soldiers, employees, supporters, etc.<br />

1644 (OED)<br />

(...) and certainly none but such, as pretend to be meer Chymists,<br />

would assert, that Potable Gold (aurum potabile, or Gold<br />

Chymically reduced to a liquor, or a thin oyle, thereby being<br />

render'd potable, or fit to be dranck) contains a vertue of<br />

recruiting or augmenting Natures Essentials; (...). Harvey,<br />

Morbus.<br />

1 (verbal gerund)<br />

Nominalization Recurring<br />

Base<br />

Recur (v)<br />

Definition OED Recur v. n. Rare. Recurrence; something which recurs;<br />

spec. a memory that comes back to the mind.<br />

Earliest attestation 1577 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

And ‘tis plain, that they all endeavour to solve the Paenomena in<br />

a Mechanical way, without recurring to Substantial Forms, and<br />

inexplicable Qualities, or so much as taking notice of the<br />

Hypostatical Principles of the Chymists. Boyle, Magnetism.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Tokens<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Reducing<br />

Reduce (v)<br />

OED Reducing n. The action of reduce (in various senses);<br />

reduction.<br />

?a1425 (OED)<br />

He did not onely practice Chirurgery himself, but wrote sundry<br />

Treatises concerning sundry operations of it: as of fractures, lib.<br />

1. of joints, lib. 1. of reducing bones by instruments, lib. 1. of<br />

ulcers, lib. 1. of fistulaes, lib 1. of wounds of the head, lib. 1. of<br />

drawing out of the womb a dead child, lib. 1. All these are in the<br />

sixt section of his works. Read, Workes.<br />

3 (all of them verbal gerunds)<br />

Reference<br />

Refer (v)<br />

OED Reference n. 2. a. Relation or regard to a thing or person.<br />

Usu. with to.<br />

1581 (OED)<br />

(...) it may be made without destroying the Substantial or the<br />

Essential Form of the body, and without sensibly adding,<br />

diminishing, or altering any thing in reference to the Salt,<br />

Sulphur and Mercury, which Chymists presume Iron and Steel, as<br />

well as other mixt bodies, to be composed of. Boyle, Magnetism.<br />

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