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APPENDIX<br />

cultivating land so as to fit it for raising crops; cultivation,<br />

agriculture, husbandry.<br />

Earliest attestation a1538 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

The industrie & diligence bestowed in the art, is lyke the [^f.9r^]<br />

tyllage of the plowman, and laste of all, tyme dothe strengthen<br />

these, and suffereth them perfectlye to be norished. Gale,<br />

Institution.<br />

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Touching<br />

Touch (v)<br />

OED Touching n. 1. a. The action, or an act, of feeling something<br />

with the hand, etc.; the fact or state of being contiguous; touch,<br />

contact; a touch; spec. for the ‘king's evil’.<br />

c1290 (OED)<br />

This cholerick humor as the former is either naturall or<br />

unnaturall: the naturall is an humor in quality hot and dry, but<br />

not actually dry, for that in touching it is felt to be moist, but<br />

potentially, for that it hath the power of drying, and in substance<br />

thin, in colour yellow, and in taste bitter. Holland, Gutta.<br />

8 (6 of them verbal gerunds)<br />

Nominalization Transmutation<br />

Base < French transmutation (...), or < late Latin transmūtātiōn-em, n.<br />

of action from transmūtāre (to change, shift)<br />

Definition OED Transmutation n. 1. Change of condition; mutation;<br />

sometimes implying alternation or exchange. Obs. or arch.<br />

Earliest attestation c1380 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

Nor is Wood the onely substance that may be this kind of<br />

transmutation be chang’d into stone; for I my self have seen and<br />

examin’d very many kinds of substances, and among very<br />

credible Authours, we may meet with Histories of such<br />

Metamorphoses wrought almost on all kind of substances, (...).<br />

Hooke, Micrographia.<br />

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Transpiration<br />

< medieval or modern Latin transpīrātiōn-em, n. of action from<br />

transpīrāre (to transpire); perhaps through French transpiration<br />

OED Transpiration n. 1. a. Exhalation through the skin or surface<br />

of the body; formerly, also, evaporation. Also concr. matter<br />

transpired.<br />

1562 (OED)<br />

And Sanctorius, that famous Roman Physician, in his nice<br />

Experiments observes, that we waste more every day by<br />

insensible Transpiration thro the Pores, than by the visible,<br />

sensible Evacuations of Urin and Stool. Colbatch, Novum.<br />

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