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APPENDIX<br />

Tokens<br />

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

Nominalization Starving<br />

Base<br />

Starve (v)<br />

Definition OED Starving n. 3. The action of depriving of food.<br />

Earliest attestation 1665 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

I pray you cal you not death death, wherof soeuer the cause<br />

commeth, be it of the Pestilence, or of persecution, or famine,<br />

will you graunt it necessarye to flye from persecution, yea and<br />

frome famine, yea and to putte on clothes from steruing, but not<br />

from the plague, pestilence or famine, or from poysoned meat &<br />

drinke. Jones, Dial.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Tokens<br />

Staying<br />

Stay (v)<br />

OED Staying n. 1 1. a. In various intransitive senses: Coming to a<br />

stand, waiting, continuing in a place or a condition; †hesitating,<br />

delaying.<br />

1546 (OED)<br />

So these things following, are [/69./] found very much to comfort<br />

the sight in staying the visible spirits from wasting: videlicet,<br />

corall, pearle, the stone called Lapis [/70./] Armenius, spectacles<br />

of Christalline or clear and pure glasse, greene & sky colours, to<br />

dip the eies in cold water, to which purpose, many haue cups<br />

made in the forme of an [/71./] eie, called eie-cups: (...). Bailey,<br />

Morbus.<br />

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

Nominalization Steering<br />

Base<br />

Steer (v)<br />

Definition OED Steering n. 1. a. The action of the verb, in various senses.<br />

Earliest attestation c1220 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

Nowe to proue the Lunges to be colde and drye of kinde, it<br />

appeareth by hys swift steering, for he lyeth euer wauing ouer<br />

the hart, and about the harte. Vicary, Anatomie.<br />

Tokens 5<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Sticking<br />

Stick (v)<br />

OED Sticking n. 1 1. b. Fixing or fastening in position. Also with<br />

on, etc.<br />

c1386 (OED)<br />

For at some times I observed, that they could not keep their<br />

Locks from flying to their Cheeks, and though neither of them<br />

made any use, or had any need of Painting from sticking there.<br />

Boyle, Magnetism.<br />

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