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APPENDIX<br />

Definition OED Regaining n. The action of regain (in various senses).<br />

Earliest attestation 1548 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

As where there is loss of Substance, there he must assist Nature<br />

with his Sarcoticks, for regaining what is lost: and where there is<br />

Contusion, there he must endeavour the turning what is contused<br />

into Pus or Matter, which must be performed before there can<br />

possibly be any Reunion. Wiseman, Wounds.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization Regenaration<br />

Base<br />

< Anglo-Norman regeneraciun, (...) < classical Latin regenerāt–,<br />

past participial stem of regenerāre (to regenarte) + –iō (–ation)<br />

Definition OED Regeneration n. 3. Biol. and Med. The formation of new<br />

tissue or cells; the natural replacement or repair of a lost or<br />

damaged part, organ, etc.; the formation of a new individual from<br />

part of an organism, often as a form of asexual reproduction.<br />

Also: an instance of this.<br />

Earliest attestation a1425 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

These things vnderstood and noted, I say first, that all sanguine<br />

members may regenerate & knit, by very regeneration &<br />

consolidation for continually ther engendreth blood inough w=t=<br />

in y=e= body for to regenerate the substance of y=e= sanguine<br />

me~ber lost, & for to reconsolidate & knit it again. Chauliac,<br />

Qvydos.<br />

Tokens 5<br />

Nominalization Regulating<br />

Base<br />

Regulate (v)<br />

Definition OED Regulating n. The action of regulate (in various senses); an<br />

instance of this. Cf. also Regulation n. 1., in same sense.<br />

Earliest attestation 1604 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

To conclude, we see by this Instance, how much Experiments may<br />

conduce to the regulating of Philosophical notions. Hooke, Life.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization Regulation<br />

Base < post-classical Latin regulation–, regulatio (...), or<br />

independently < regulate + –ation<br />

Definition OED Regulation n. 1. The action or fact of regulating (in various<br />

senses of regulate); an instance of this. Also: the state of being<br />

regulated. Cf. Regulating n., in same sense.<br />

Earliest attestation 1611 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

So that it is absolutely necessary for an Apothecary to know the<br />

various Substances of Medicaments, to judge by that how he<br />

ought to regulate their Infusion or Decoction; because that<br />

Prescriptions never mention the regulation of the Decoction, nor<br />

the degrees of fire, nor the length of time requisite for the<br />

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