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APPENDIX<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Tokens<br />

Setting<br />

Set (v)<br />

OED Setting n1. 1. a. The action of the verb set in various<br />

transitive senses; putting, placing, planting, etc. Also, the fact of<br />

being set.<br />

1398 (OED)<br />

Yet I say, I must confess that I may seem to be wanting in setting<br />

a standard, or certain mark, which may direct our Surgeons in<br />

the difficult stages of these Evacuations, with as much certainty<br />

as a fix'd mark in the Heavens directs our Sailers in their<br />

Voyages. Cockburn, Continuation.<br />

5 (one of them a verbal gerund)<br />

Nominalization Settling<br />

Base<br />

Settle (v)<br />

Definition OED Settling n. 1. a. The action of fixing, establishing, arranging<br />

permanently, adjusting, deciding, etc.<br />

Earliest attestation 1553 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

(...) and reason turned to a vaine feare, or plaine desperation, the<br />

braine being altered in his complexion, and as it were<br />

transported into an instrument of an other make then it was first<br />

ordained: these two according to the diuersitie of setling, do<br />

ingender diuersitie of passions, & according therunto do<br />

diuerslie affect the vnderstanding, & do alter the affection,<br />

especially if by corruption of nature or euill custome of manners<br />

the partie be ouer passionate. Bright, Melancholy.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization Sewing<br />

Base<br />

Sew (v)<br />

Definition OED Sewing n. 1 1. a. The action of sew; the use of a needle and<br />

thread; the uniting of pieces of material (etc.) by this means.<br />

Earliest attestation c1290 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

For it is very harde for him, y=t= is ignoraunt in Anatomie to<br />

worke co~mely and decently, in mans bodye, as in cuttynge,<br />

sewynge, burnynge, or applyeng cauteries actuall or potentiall<br />

and semblable thynges. De Vigo, Excellent.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Shaking<br />

Shake (v)<br />

OED Shaking n. 1. a. The action of shake, in any sense.<br />

c1380 (OED)<br />

ALysander the seedes drunke alone, or with honied water<br />

prouoke termes, dissolueth winde and griping in the body, it<br />

warmeth the members that are taken with shaking, and is good<br />

for the strangurie. Langham, Garden.<br />

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