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APPENDIX<br />

taking one group, matrix, set, etc., from another in order to obtain<br />

their difference. Cf. also Substracting n., in same sense.<br />

Earliest attestation ?a1425 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

(...) for if you take 46. degrees, 1’3. out of degrees, the remainder<br />

will be 43. degrees, 4’7. which is the complement, so as you<br />

neede not to make any Subtraction out of to find the complement<br />

of any arch, that hath any minutes annexed thereunto: (...)<br />

Blundevile, Briefe.<br />

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Substracting<br />

Substract (v)<br />

OED Substracting n. Now nonstandard and rare. The action of<br />

substract; withdrawal; removal. Cf. also Subtraction n. 2. a., in<br />

same sense.<br />

1549 (OED)<br />

(...) but onely to subtract the giuen Arke out of the whole<br />

Quadrant which is degrees, and the remainder shall be the<br />

complement: as in the former example by subtracting 8. degrees,<br />

out of degrees, you shal find that there remaineth 81. degrees,<br />

which is the complement of that arch. Blundevile, Briefe.<br />

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Nominalization Succession<br />

Base<br />

< Old French succession (from 13th cent.) or its source Latin<br />

successio, –ōnem, n. of action < succēdĕre (to succeed)<br />

Definition OED Succession n. 1. a. The action of a person or thing<br />

following, or succeeding to the place of, another; the coming of<br />

one person or thing after another; also, the passing from one act<br />

or state to another; an instance of this.<br />

Earliest attestation c1405 (c1385) (OED)<br />

Example<br />

The Longitude of any Planet or Starre is to bee counted in the<br />

Ecliptique line containing in circuit degrees, reckoning from the<br />

first point of Aries, and so to Taurus, Gemini, and Cancer, & so<br />

foorth according to the succession of the signe, vntill you come<br />

againe vnto the first point of Aries, at which point such Longitude<br />

both endeth and beginneth. Blundevile, Cosmographie.<br />

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Nominalization Sucking<br />

Base<br />

Suck (v)<br />

Definition OED Sucking n. 1 1. a. The action of the verb suck; suction. Also,<br />

an instance of this.<br />

Earliest attestation 1382 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

To this part belongeth the curing of tongue-tyed children, in<br />

whom sucking and speech are hindered. Read, Workes.<br />

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