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APPENDIX<br />

Base<br />

Wither (v)<br />

Definition OED Withering n. a. The action of wither.<br />

Earliest attestation ?1523 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

(...) for they being disseised (turn'd out) of their most happy seat<br />

Paradise, and so far discarded (cast out) out of Gods favour,<br />

could not but fall into a most dismal, sad, and melancholique<br />

drooping, for the loss of their happiness, the occasional cause<br />

and forerunner of a Marcour, or drying and withering of their<br />

flesh and radical moisture (the deep oyly moisture of the parts,)<br />

or otherwise they might have Spun the thred of their lives much<br />

longer, their principles of life being created in them to extend to<br />

an Eval duration (lasting without end.). Harvey, Morbus.<br />

Tokens 6<br />

Nominalization Working<br />

Base<br />

Work (v)<br />

Definition OED Working n. 6. Influential operation; influence,<br />

effectiveness; also, the result or effect of operation or influence.<br />

Somewhat arch.<br />

Earliest attestation c1374 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

(...) so by the maruelous working of nature, these varieties of<br />

humours are entertained by nourishmentes inclining to like<br />

disposition: although no nourishment can be vtterly voide of all<br />

these partes, no not those that are counted most to encline to any<br />

one humour, as beefe, and veneson to melancholie: honie, and<br />

butter, to choler: and fish to fleume. Bright, Melancholy.<br />

Tokens<br />

29 (7 of them verbal gerunds)<br />

Nominalization Wounding<br />

Base<br />

Wound (v)<br />

Definition OED Wounding n. 1. The action of the verb; the fact of being<br />

wounded. Also fig.<br />

Earliest attestation a1400 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

What has bin said of Bones and Flesh, may be said of Tendons<br />

(the wounding of which was heretofore accounted as fatal as<br />

any thing; and being of a mucilaginous nature, digestive<br />

Medicins were wont to rot and destroy them, and so cause<br />

Mortifications) so that their ends, if totally divided, can be<br />

brought any thing near together; (...). Colbatch, Novum.<br />

Tokens 2<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Wrinkling<br />

Wrinkle (v)<br />

OED Wrinkling n. 2. The action of creasing, puckering, or<br />

contracting into wrinkles; the fact of becoming corrugated or<br />

rivelled.<br />

1528 (OED)<br />

479

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