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APPENDIX<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Tokens<br />

Seek (v)<br />

OED Seeking n. a. The action of seek in its various senses.<br />

1303 (OED)<br />

Enter with the quotinent into the body of the tables, and leaue not<br />

seeking amongst the squares of the Sines, vntill you haue found<br />

out the iust number of the quotient if it be there (...). Blundevile,<br />

Briefe.<br />

4 (2 of them verbal gerunds)<br />

Nominalization Seething<br />

Base<br />

Seethe (v)<br />

Definition OED Seething n. †2. a. The action or an act of keeping a liquid<br />

boiling hot, of cooking in boiling water, or of submitting<br />

anything to the action of boiling liquid.<br />

Earliest attestation a1387 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

And you muste generally learne, that in makyng conserues,<br />

Frutes and Roots are made with fyre and seething: but Flowres<br />

are made w=t=out fyre or seething. Partridge, Treasurie.<br />

Tokens 4<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Tokens<br />

Separating<br />

Separate (v)<br />

OED Separating n. The action of separate. Cf. also Separation<br />

n., 1. a., in same sense.<br />

a1557 (OED)<br />

Sometimes it is so inwardly united, and so profoundly conceal'd<br />

among the other substances, as not to be perceiv'd by the<br />

ordinary senses, nor be distinguish'd but by separating it by the<br />

means of fire. Charas, Royal.<br />

4 (2 of them verbal gerunds)<br />

Nominalization Separation<br />

Base < Old French separation, < Latin sēparātiōn-em, n. of action <<br />

sēparāre (to separate)<br />

Definition OED Separation n. 1. a. The action of separating or parting, of<br />

setting or keeping apart; the state of being separated or parted.<br />

†to make separation, to make a severance or division. Cf.<br />

Separating n., in same sense.<br />

Earliest attestation 1413 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

[}Balmes.}] +R. Partem humani corporis incisam. Put it into a<br />

large bellied vessell of glas (that which the Chymists call<br />

Ampulla) digest it therein for a moneths space, Then make<br />

separation thereof s.a. Take of the lycour thereof lbj. Theriacæ<br />

opt, +o vj. commixe and macerate them s.a. for xxx. dayes space,<br />

(...). Bonham, Chyrvrgians.<br />

Tokens 6<br />

445

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