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APPENDIX
Nominalization
Base
Definition
Earliest attestation
Example
Tokens
Summoning
Summon (v)
OED Summoning n. The action of summon; the issue of a
summons.
c1330 (OED)
Fascia faciens Apostema is that which will cure an Aposteme, by
summoning the Matter up into one part, which might perhaps
dangerously flow into others, and those more principal.
Wiseman, Wounds.
1 (verbal gerund)
Nominalization Sunburning
Base
Sun + burning
Definition OED Sunburning n. ‘Burning’ by exposure to the sun; sunburn.
Earliest attestation 1530 (OED)
Example
Of Spurge the greater and lesser, they are both (taken inwardly)
too violent for a vulgar use, outwardly in ointments they cleanse
the skin, and take away sunburning. Culpeper, London.
Tokens 2
Nominalization Suppling
Base
Supple (v)
Definition OED Suppling n. 1. The action of making something more
supple, soft, or flexible; an instance of this.
Earliest attestation 1542 (OED)
Example
The third, that it should go into the joynts for the suppling and
moistning thereof, for they are compounded of dry substances
(..). Holland, Gutta.
Tokens 1
Nominalization
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Definition
Earliest attestation
Example
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Supposing
Suppose (v)
OED Supposing n. 1. The action or fact of inclining to think
something; conjecturing; assuming; imagining. Also: a
conjecture, a hypothesis, an assumption, a supposition. Now usu.:
the expressing, or an expression, of a thought using the verb
‘suppose’. In early use also: †thinking, belief, opinion (obs.).
a1393 (OED)
For instance, in making a [^p.8^] revulsion, an old and
confirmed operation and practice, tho never to be accounted for,
but by supposing Harvey's noble Theorem of the circulation of
the Blood, however contrary to that Doctrine, the most of our
modern Physitians have been pleased to think it. Cockburn,
Continuation.
2 (all of them verbal gerunds)
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