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tight, wrenching, etc.; the fact of being stretched, wrenched, etc.
Earliest attestation c1400 (OED)
Example
Or take Violet flowers, Borage, Sena, Tyme, the juyce of
Fumitory and Lycorice, make your Decoction of Whay, infuse
therein [/15./] some Elder barke, then adde thereto iij sorts of
Myrabolanies ana iiij +Q, stirred together on a soft fire, and
after the strayning adde to it Lapis Acivenius ix times quenched
in the same Decoction, and i +Q thereof made in subtill powder,
minister this before day. Wood, Alphabetical.
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Nominalization Strangulation
Base
< Latin strangulātiōn-em, n. of action < strangulāre (to strangle)
Definition OED Strangulation n. 1. a. The action or process of stopping
respiration by compression of the air-passage, esp. by a sudden
and violent compression of the windpipe; the condition of being
strangled by such compression.
Earliest attestation 1542 (OED)
Example
(...) somtimes it taketh course by the nose, and is called the pose;
sometimes to the mouth, and causeth great expuition, and
spitting, and the falling of the uvula, and toothach; somtimes to
the windpipe, and therof commeth raucedo, the hoarsnes;
somtimes to the lungs, and causeth exulceration or putrifaction
thereof, or some great obstruction, which bringeth a difficulty of
breathing and strangulation; (...). Holland, Gutta.
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Nominalization Stratification
Base
< medieval Latin strātificātiōnem, n. of action < strātificāre (to
stratify)
Definition OED Stratification n. 1. †a. The action of depositing something
in layers; spec. Obs.
Earliest attestation 1617 (OED)
Example
When you have thus filled your Crucible, by continual
stratifications of the filings and powder, so that, as neer as may
be, no one of the filings may touch another, place the Crucible in
a gradual fire, (...). Hooke, Life.
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Definition
Earliest attestation
Example
Strengthening
Strengthen (v)
OED Strengthening n. 1. The action of strengthen, in various
senses; an instance of this.
1535 (OED)
I am heere also in this place for the clensing and strenghtning of
the eies especially to commend vnto you the frequent vse of old
and cleere white wine, in which the Calaminar stone hath beene
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