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bieng chaf’d or heated, is made to emit certain Rayes or Files of
unctuous Steams, which, when they come to be a little cool’d by
the external air, are somewhat condens’d, and having lost of
their former agitation, shrink back to the body whence they
sallied out, and carry with them those light bodies, that their
further ends happen to adhere to, at the time of their Retraction:
(...). Boyle, Magnetism.
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Nominalization Reunion
Base
Re– + unition
Definition OED Reunion n. The action of reuniting; reunion; an instance of
this. Cf. Reunition n., in same sense.
Earliest attestation 1576 (OED)
Example
As where there is loss of Substance, there he must assist Nature
with his Sarcoticks, for regaining what is lost: and where there is
Contusion, there he must endeavour the turning what is contused
into Pus or Matter, which must be performed before there can
possibly be any Reunion. Wiseman, Wounds.
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Nominalization Reunition
Base
Re– + unition
Definition OED Reunition n. The action of reuniting; reunion; an instance of
this. Cf. Reunion n., in same sense.
Earliest attestation 1615 (OED)
Example
CONTAINING I. Chirurgicall Lectures of Tumors and Ulcers. II.
A Treatise of the first part of Chirurgery, which teacheth the reunition
of the parts of the body dis-joynted; and the methodicall
Doctrine of Wounds. Read, Workes.
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Nominalization Revulsion
Base
< Middle French revulsion (...) < revuls–, past participial stem of
revellere (to revel) + –iō (–ation)
Definition OED Revulsion n. 1. Med. The action or process of withdrawing
humours, blood, etc., from one part of the body by means of a
treatment applied to another part; counterirritation. Also: an
instance of this. Now hist.
Earliest attestation ?1541 (OED)
Example
I say in making a revulsion, or by determining the motion of the
Blood, more towards one part than another, which is to be
practiced upon a thousand occasions; the quantity to be let, if
other circumstances are observed, very often exceeds not six or
eight Ounces in the strongest constitutions; (...). Cockburn,
Continuation.
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