Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	death_n	know_v	life_n	2,879	5	4.5653	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60662	Medicina practica, or, Practical physick shewing the method of curing the most usual diseases happening to humane bodies ... : to which is added, the philosophick works of Hermes Trismegistus, Kalid Persicus, Geber Arabs, Artesius Longævus, Nicholas Flammel, Roger Bachon and George Ripley : all translated out of the best Latin editions into English ... : together with a singular comment upon the first book of Hermes, the most ancient of philosophers : the whole compleated in three books / by William Salmon ...	Salmon, William, 1644-1713.; Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī, 7th cent.; Jābir ibn Ḥayyān.; Artephius. Liber secretus artis occultae. English.; Flamel, Nicolas, d. 1418. Figures hierogliphiques. English.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294. Speculum alchemiae. English.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294. Radix mundi. English.; Ripley, George, d. 1490? Medulla alchimiae. English.	1692 (1692)	Wing S434; ESTC R183203	439,154	1,009

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and_o the_o noise_n be_v very_o great_a make_v use_n of_o they_o very_o sudden_o for_o otherwise_o they_o will_v quick_o vanish_v away_o chap._n xxx_o of_o the_o commixtion_n of_o the_o element_n which_o be_v separate_v i._o now_o you_o must_v begin_v to_o commix_v the_o element_n which_o be_v the_o compass_n of_o the_o whole_a work_n there_o can_v be_v no_o commixti_fw-la on_o without_o a_o marriage_n and_o putrefaction_n the_o marriage_n be_v to_o mingle_v the_o thin_a with_o the_o thick_a and_o putrefaction_n be_v to_o roast_v grind_v water_n or_o imbibe_n so_o long_o till_o all_o be_v mix_v together_o and_o become_v one_o so_o that_o there_o be_v no_o diversity_n in_o they_o nor_o separation_n as_o in_o water_n mix_v with_o water_n ii_o then_o will_v the_o thick_a strive_v to_o retain_v the_o thin_a and_o the_o soul_n shall_v strive_v with_o the_o fire_n and_o endeavour_v to_o sustain_v it_o then_o shall_v the_o spirit_n suffer_v itself_o to_o be_v swallow_v up_o by_o the_o body_n 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