Selected quad for the lemma: nature_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	agent_n	art_n	great_a	38	3	2.0856	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56768	Some observations made upon the root caled casmunar imported from the East-Indies shewing its nature and vertues above any other as yet written of in curing apoplexies, convulsions, palsies, lethargies, tremblings, fitts of the mother, giddiness in the head, and all distempers of the brain and nerves / published by a doctor of physick in Glocester-shire.	Peachi, John, fl. 1683.; Pechey, John, 1655-1716.	1693 (1693)	Wing P937; ESTC R27605	2,613	9

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