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▪ I. testing, vbl. n.1|ˈtɛstɪŋ|
[f. test v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of test v.1
1. The making of a will; the disposing of property by will.
1681Stair Inst. Law Scot. xxx. §37 The power of Testing is competent to all Persons, who have the use of Reason. 1788Priestley Lect. Hist. v. xlviii. 362 The power of testing was first introduced by Solon. 1880Blackie in Contemp. Rev. Jan. 44 The freedom of testing, which we derive from the law of the Twelve Tables. 1889Stevenson Master of B. 176 If I had been put to my oath, I must have declared he was incapable of testing.
2. Sc. Law. testing clause: see quot. 1838.
(Here testing may be ppl. a.)
1765–8Erskine Inst. Law Scot. ii. iii. §33 That all precepts..should be ingrossed in the charter, towards the end of it; that is, immediately before the testing clause. 1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. s.v., The testing clause is the technical name given to the clause whereby a formal written deed or instrument is authenticated. 1888Law Rep. 13 App. Cas. XIII. 376 The testing clause was..‘In witness whereof I and my said wife have subscribed these presents’.
▪ II. ˈtesting, vbl. n.2
[f. test v.2 + -ing1.]
a. The action of test v.2; putting to the test, trying, proving; in quot. 1687, subjecting to the Test Act.
1687Good Advice 61 The end of Testing and Persecuting. 1827Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1839) IV. 317 A philosophy, which has for its object the trial and testing of the weights and measures themselves. 1839,1842[see test v.2 4]. 1860Merc. Marine Mag. VII. 141 The application of a severe strain in testing has an injurious effect on a cable.
b. attrib. and Comb. Pertaining to or used for testing, as testing-box, testing-machine, testing-office, testing station, etc. testing-ground, an area used for demonstration and experiment; also fig.
1872Gentl. Mag. Jan. 71 Since the battle field is the only thorough testing ground for weapons and military schemes. 1876Preece & Sivewright Telegraphy 272 At certain stations along the line the wires are led into testing-boxes for the purpose of affording facilities for crossing, disconnecting, and putting them to earth... The testing station is always the most important station on the circuit. 1877Knight Dict. Mech. 2538/2 In Fairbanks's testing-machine, the crushing, breaking, or deflecting force is applied..by a cross-head. 1890W. J. Gordon Foundry 111 In the same range as the roller shop is the laboratory, and further on is the testing-office. 1905Daily Chron. 22 Apr. 6/4 A six⁓cylinder racing car with a testing body passed at a speed that was not less than forty-five miles an hour. 1919H. S. Walpole Secret City ii. vii. 213, I turned and devoted myself to Uncle Ivan, who was always delighted to make me a testing-ground for his English. 1943in R. V. Jones Most Secret War (1978) xxxvii. 322 The new weapon is in the form of a rocket which has been seen fired from the testing ground.
▪ III. ˈtesting, ppl. a.
[f. test v.2 + -ing2.]
That tests or puts to the test or proof.
1847–8H. Miller First Impr. viii. (1857) 123 His writings..had stood their testing century but indifferently well. 1878Gladstone Glean. (1879) I. 179, I will add another and a very testing question. 1884Pall Mall G. 13 Nov. 1/1 It is a testing crisis for English democracy. 1885J. Beddoe Races Brit. 271 An edifice of wood and stubble, which may..be consumed by the testing fire. |