"provenance" as a verb
Charles C Doyle
cdoyle at UGA.EDU
Tue Dec 20 16:38:56 UTC 2011
Eric Pfeiffer, "Origin of Stonehenge Rocks Discovered," _Yahoo!News_ 20 Dec. 1011:
<< "Being able to provenance any archaeologically significant rock so precisely is remarkable," Dr. Rob Ixer of Leicester University told the BBC. >>
The OED gives "provenanced" as a participle, so one might infer the existence of the verb--but the OED doesn't record the verb per se.
--Charlie
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