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APPENDIX<br />

Earliest attestation 1390 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

I make a Solution of my Pouder in Water, for want of which in<br />

Urin: and as soon as conveniently I can, the sooner the better, I<br />

either squeeze, or with a Syringe, if the Wound be deep, inject<br />

into the Wound som of the said Solution I then close the Lips of<br />

the Wound together, which if wide and large, I stitch up.<br />

Colbatch, Novum.<br />

Tokens 20<br />

Nominalization Speaking<br />

Base<br />

Speak (v)<br />

Definition OED Speaking n. 1. a. The action of the verb; talking,<br />

discoursing.<br />

Earliest attestation 1303 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

Twelfth lacke of slepe and quietnes, causeth the sycke to shewe a<br />

francye countenance, speakyng, groning grieuously in hys<br />

slumber. Jones, Dial.<br />

Tokens 2<br />

Nominalization Speculation<br />

Base < late Latin speculātiōn-em, noun of action < speculārī (to<br />

speculate)<br />

Definition OED Speculation n. 4. a. The contemplation, consideration, or<br />

profound study of some subject.<br />

Earliest attestation c1374 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

Finding you thus conducted through a smooth way, we'll instantly<br />

open a door, to give you passage to a more abstruse (hidden,) but<br />

pleasant speculation, viz. the manner of a proper and improper<br />

Consumption, together with the reason of the incurability of the<br />

former, and facil (easie) cure of the other. Harvey, Morbus.<br />

Tokens 3<br />

Nominalization Spitting<br />

Base<br />

Spit (v)<br />

Definition OED Spitting n. 2 1. a. The action of ejecting saliva from the<br />

mouth; expectoration.<br />

Earliest attestation 13.. (OED)<br />

Example<br />

(...) if they be boyled with it, it is excellent for all wounds both<br />

nternal and external, for spitting of blood, ruptures or<br />

iburstness, pains in the back, it strengthens the reins, it stops the<br />

terms, and helpeth the hemorrhoyds. Culpeper, London.<br />

Tokens 7<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Springing<br />

Spring (v)<br />

The action or fact of originating or proceeding.<br />

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