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< medieval or modern Latin *vitrificātio, < *vitrificāre (to
vitrify)
Definition OED Vitrification n. 1. a. The action or process of vitrifying;
conversion into a glassy substance by fusion due to heat; the fact
of being so converted.
Earliest attestation 1617 (OED)
Example
(...) for I found, when a Spark went out, nothing but a very small
thin long sliver of Iron or Steel, unmelted at either end. So that it
seems, that some of these Sparks are the slivers or chips of the
Iron vitrified, Others are only the slivers melted into Balls
without vitrification, And the third kind are only small slivers of
the Iron, made red-hot with the violence of the stroke given on
the Steel by the Flint. Hooke, Micrographia.
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Nominalization Voiding
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Void (v)
Definition OED Voiding n. 1. The discharging, emitting, or evacuation of
something (now only of the bladder or bowel); = voidance.
Earliest attestation a1425 (OED)
Example
The Bladder being hurt, there is great dolour on the sheere-bone
and Ilya, pissing of bloud, voyding of the vryne at the wound,
vomiting of choller, coldnesse of extremities. Lowe, Art.
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Nominalization Vomiting
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Vomit (v)
Definition OED Vomiting n. 1. a. The act of ejecting the contents of the
stomach through the mouth; an instance of this.
Earliest attestation 1495 (OED)
Example
The gum drunk is good against vomiting of blood with vineger, it
healeth the skirfe and skab of the skinne, drunke with sweete
wine, or Malmesey, it helpeth the stone. Langham, Garden.
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Nominalization Wagging
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Wag (v)
Definition OED Wagging n. 1. a. The action of the verb wag in its various
senses.
Earliest attestation 1362 (OED)
Example
(...) at one time he would magnifye his Phisitian an Chirurgian as
it were aboue the heauens, and for the wagging of a rush, hee
would discredit them & dispraise them againe, down to the pit of
hell. Clowes, Artificiall.
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Nominalization
Walking
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