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▪ I. fitting, vbl. n.|ˈfɪtɪŋ|
[f. fit v. + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of the vb. fit in various senses. Also gerundially with omission of in. Also with advs.
1607Hieron Wks. I. 301 There should be also..a fitting of this generall truth touching Christ to his owne particular. 1719Freethinker No. 154, I am fitting out for one of the most compleat Beaus in Christendom. 1746–7Hervey Medit. (1818) 73 They saw the fatal arrow fitting to the strings. 1829Marryat F. Mildmay xxiii, The ship was fitting. 1862Dana Man. Geol. 583 In the final fitting up of the earth with life there was still a reference to him [Man]. 1886Ruskin Præterita I. vi. 179 The perfect fitting of windows.
b. The action or an act of fitting on a garment in tailoring and dressmaking.
1900Daily Express 22 June 5/3 Messrs. ― gave her eight fittings. 1930London Mercury Feb. 320 They had had to cancel two fittings and three dress shows. 1942D. Powell Time to be Born (1943) xi. 274 It was an exciting adventure to lie about a ‘fitting’..and then make her dignified dash.
2. concr. Anything used in fitting. Usually in pl.: Fixtures, apparatus, furniture. Also fitting-up.
a1817Jane Austen Persuasion (1818) III. xi. 233 The varieties in the fitting-up of the rooms. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 77 Bladders filled with a quantity of this gas..and the neck, or fitting-up of its end, made capable of being closed or opened. 1860Hawthorne Marb. Faun xxxi. (1883) 321 These fittings-up of polished marble. 1864Bp. of Lincoln Charge 7, 42 grants for fittings and books. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. viii. 207 All the roofs, floors, and fittings were burned.
3. Mech. Engin. (see quot. 1888).
1878W. Allan Rose & Thistle 131 What though your labour is merely stone-breaking, Turning or fitting, or wielding the spade. 1888Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin., Fitting, that section of mechanical engineering devoted to the bringing together and adjusting of the different portions of engines, machines, &c.
4. Soap-making. See fit v. 10.
1860Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 5) III. 713. 1885 W. L. Carpenter Manuf. Soap vi. 172 The finishing operation for yellow soaps is termed ‘fitting’ in England.
5. attrib., as fitting-out basin, fitting(-out)-shop, fitting-room.
1909Daily Chron. 23 Feb. 1/9 The vessel was..towed to one of the fitting-out basins. 1961F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 88 New vessels..launched and ‘taken in hand’ for completion, usually in a ‘fitting-out’ basin.
1840Marryat Poor Jack xii, I went to a fitting-out shop. 1888Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin., Fitting-Shop, the shop in which the operations of fitting are carried on.
1909in A. Adburgham Shops & Shopping (1964) xxi. 249 The Costume Department (to which luxurious fitting-rooms are attached). 1962L. S. Sasieni Optical Dispensing ix. 205 Such faults can be corrected in the fitting-room. 1969R. Jaffe Fame Game xiv. 196 He went into a fitting room.
▪ II. fitting, vbl. n.2
see *fit v.2
▪ III. fitting, ppl. a.|ˈfɪtɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That fits: a. Becoming, appropriate, proper, suitable. b. That conforms to the contour or size of something; now only with prefixed advbs. (often hyphened), as close(-ly)-fitting, well-fitting, ill-fitting.
Many examples in editions of 15th c. works are spurious, the reading of the MSS. being sitting, which was formerly used in the same sense. It is doubtful whether the reading of our first quot. is not similarly incorrect, as fit v.1 has not otherwise been found so early.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 486 Thre men war clad in fitand [coit-] armour. 1595Shakes. John v. vi. 19 News fitting to the night, Blacke, fearefull, comfortlesse. 1617E. Owens in Lismore Papers (1887) Ser. ii. II. 113 Thus much I thought fytinge to acqueynt your Lordshipp. 1705Stanhope Paraphr. II. 355 Use all fitting means of putting it to Shame. 1825Southey Paraguay iii. 44 Which seem'd to be for beasts a fitting lair. 1845M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 20 Counsel..such as is fitting a bishop should give. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt (1868) 10 Her tight-fitting black dress was much worn. 1881Rita My Lady Coquette xvii, It's the fittingest name.
Hence ˈfittingly adv., in a fitting manner; ˈfittingness, the state of being fitting.
1641Jos. Shute Sarah & Hagar (1649) 106 Let us carry our selves fittingly. 1653Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. i. vi. ii. §28 (1667) 182 He..need not question the fittingness of Godfathers promising in behalf of the Children for whom they answer. 1863Bates Nat. Amazon II. 95 The fire-ant, which might be fittingly termed the scourge of this fine river. 1866Argyll Reign Law vii. (ed. 4) 377 Whose labours were to match with a curious fittingness into his.
▪ IV. fitting
Sc. form of footing. |