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APPENDIX<br />

Nominalization Swelling<br />

Base<br />

Swell (v)<br />

Definition OED Swelling n. 1. a. The process of becoming, or condition of<br />

having become, larger in bulk, as by internal pressure; distension,<br />

dilatation, expansion.<br />

Earliest attestation 1577 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

For watches letting concoction as Hipp. saieth, and Regime~<br />

[^f.D1r^] sanitat. salern. also, causeth rawe humors and vapors<br />

ingendring swolty heate, causing Feuers, as [/18./] sayth Auic.<br />

resoluing the bodye: wherevpon there foloweth euyl colour,<br />

swelling in the face, moisture of the browes, scarcelye lifting<br />

them, for through watches the braine and instrument of the<br />

senses, (...). Jones, Dial.<br />

Tokens 32<br />

Nominalization Swimming<br />

Base<br />

Swim (v)<br />

Definition (Of the head) the action or fact of being affected with dizziness<br />

Cf. Swimming v. 7. a. Of the head or brain: To be affected with<br />

dizziness; to have a giddy sensation. Also, of the head, to swim<br />

round = to be in a whirl.<br />

Earliest attestation 1530 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

Wash [^p.13^] thy head with the recoction thereof, and apply the<br />

hearbe vnto thy forehead for the swimming and giddinesse or<br />

turning thereof. Langham, Garden.<br />

Tokens 3<br />

Nominalization Swooning<br />

Base<br />

< i-swowen, i-swoȝen (swow)<br />

Definition OED Swooning n. 1. Fainting, syncope.<br />

Earliest attestation c1290 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

This Syrop will last many yeres and is excellent against<br />

swowning and faintnesse of hert, it co~forteth the Brayne and<br />

Sinewes, if it bee vsed as muche as a Hasell Nut at once, at your<br />

pleasure. Partridge, Treasurie.<br />

Tokens 5<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Taking<br />

Take (v)<br />

OED Taking n. I. The action or condition expressed by the verb<br />

take.<br />

c1340 (OED)<br />

But Mixtures differ in this from Potions, that their use is more<br />

frequent and longer, and because there is not so much drank of<br />

them at a time; for being compos'd of powerful Medicines, they<br />

operate in less quantity, and work those effects by repetition,<br />

which could hardly be done at once taking. Charas, Royal.<br />

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