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APPENDIX
Example
Notwithstanding in other Countries [^p.8^][/41./] which haue
other vsuall drinkes, the same things may be put in their common
drinks, So some haue put them in ale, some in beere and some in
meade, and no doubt but all these meanes are very good
according to the vsage and disposition of the partie. Bailey,
Preseruation.
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Nominalization
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Definition
Earliest attestation
Example
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Using
Use (v)
OED Using n. 1. a. The action of making use of something, or the
fact of being used. Cf. Usage n. 2. a., in same sense.
c1340 (OED)
First of all, my Medicins never cause any Pain, unless it be just
when the external one is squeez'd or injected into the Wound, and
that pain is very little more than what would be caused by using
Spring-water in the same manner. Colbatch, Novum.
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Nominalization Ustion
Base
< Old French ustion (...), < Latin ūstiōn-em, noun of action < ūstus,
past participle of ūrĕre (to burn)
Definition OED Ustion n. 2. a. The action of searing; cauterization.
Earliest attestation 1563 (EMEMT)
Example
Guido de Cauliaco (in his boke which he calleth his Collectorie)
defineth it in this sorte. Chirurgirie is a parte of terapentike
helinge men by insition, vstion, & articulation. Gale, Qvydos.
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Nominalization Variation
Base
< Old French variation, (...) < Latin variātiōn–, variātio, n. of
action < variāre (to vary)
Definition OED Variation n. 5. a. variation of the compass, (†lodestone,) or
needle, the deviation or divergence of the magnetic needle from
the true north and south line; the amount or angular measure of
this; = declination.
Earliest attestation ?a1560 (OED)
Example
M. Borrough in his discourse of the variation of the Compasse,
defineth the Magneticall Meridian to bee a great Circle, which
passeth through the Zenith and the Pole of the load stone called
in Latine Magnes, (...). Blundevile, Cosmographie.
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Definition
Venesection
< medieval or modern Latin vēnæ sectio (cutting of a vein)
OED Venesection n. Med. 1. The operation of cutting or opening
a vein; phlebotomy; the practice of this as a medical remedy.
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