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APPENDIX
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Definition
Reflection
< Middle French reflexion, (...) < classical Latin reflex–, past
participial stem of reflectere (to reflect) + –iō (–ation)
OED Reflection n. 1. a. The action of an object, surface, etc., in
reflecting light, heat, sound, or other form of radiation without
absorbing it; the fact or phenomenon of this; an instance of this.
Also fig. and in figurative contexts.
Earliest attestation a1398 (OED)
Example
(...) for certainly, a body that has so many pores in it as this is
discover’d to have, from each of which no light is reflected, must
necessarily look black, especially, when the pores are somewhat
bigger in proportion to the intervals then they are cut in the
Scheme, black being nothing else but a privation of Light, or a
want of reflection; (...). Hooke, Micrographia.
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Nominalization Reformation
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< Anglo-Norman reformacioun, (...) < reformāt–, past participial
stem of reformāre (to reform) + –iō (–ation)
Definition OED Reformation n1. †2. Reparation, redress. cf. reform v. Obs.
Earliest attestation 1405 (OED)
Example
One is very regeneration, which is very reformation of the
member in the selfe same substaunce, forme, qualytie and
quantitie: and other such accidents properly as it was afore the
corruption and alteration. Chauliac, Qvydos.
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Nominalization Refutation
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< classical Latin refūtātiōn–, (...) < refūtāt–, past participial stem
of refūtāre (to refute) + –iō (–ation)
Definition OED Refutation n. 1. The action or an act of refuting or
disproving a statement, charge, theory, etc.; rebuttal.
Earliest attestation ?1536 (OED)
Example
Seeing so many as have written of Tumors have set down one
definition or another, if I should set down all the severall
definitions which are by divers Authors set down, and insist in the
refutation of such definitions as offend against the conditions of
a good definition, I should rather seem to the judicious, to make
an ostentation of reading, and wit, then a care of the profiting of
the hearers. Read, Workes.
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Regaining
Regain (v)
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