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comprehended the arte of phlebotomie or lettynge of blode, and
also of scarification, and boxinge whiche I hope (God
grauntynge hym lyfe) he wyll hereafter fit out. Gale, Institution.
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Nominalization Scattering
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Scatter (v)
Definition OED Scattering n. 1. a. The action of the verb scatter, in various
senses; also, an instance of this.
Earliest attestation 1382 (OED)
Example
[}Question.}] What diuers operations exerciseth the Chyrurgion.
[}Aunswere.}] In three diuers operations. That is to say, dissolue
the thing continued, knit y=e= thing seperated, and put out the
superfluous thing. To dissolue y=e= thing co~tinued, is by
incising, cutting, or scaturusing. Chauliac, Qvydos.
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Scoff (v)
OED Scoffing n. 1 The action of scoff; †a scoff.
1377 (OED)
(...) and moreouver stood in the gap of my defence against other
such, which thn were also sore troubled with the Fluxe of a fowle
mouth, & bled me at their pleasure for their common Table talke,
with scoffing, fleering, and deriding aboue manners and
modesty. Clowes, Artificiall.
1 (verbal gerund)
Nominalization Scouring
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Scour (v)
Definition OED Scouring n. 2 4. b. The state or fact of being purged; a
looseness or flux of the bowels, diarrhœa; esp. as a disease in
livestock .
Earliest attestation 1575 (OED)
Example
[}Bloody-Flux, Scowring, or Gonoria.}] TAke the seed of white
Poppy, Mallowes, Quinces, and Pursleyne all powdred, take
also Mirtell, Gum Arabick, Gum Dragant, Pine kernells, Sugar,
Lycorice, Penedes, Psiloum musilage, of Almonds ana iiij +o, of
fine Bole sanguis Draconis, red Roses, Spodij, Myrrhe ana i +Q,
mix them with Hydromell, and make it in Trochis; (...). Wood,
Alphabetical.
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Scripture
< Latin scrīptūra writing, < scrīpt–, scrībĕre (to write)
OED Scripture n. 2. The action or art of writing; handwriting,
penmanship. Also concr. written characters. Now rare.
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