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▪ I. repreˈsenting, vbl. n.
[-ing1.]
The action of the vb. represent in various senses; representation.
c1440J. Capgrave Life St. Kath. iv. 1502 These fayre riche sepultures Whiche be-tokene in her representyng That there is beryed duke or ellis kyng. 1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 26 Poesie..is an arte of imitation,..that is to say, a representing, counterfetting, or figuring foorth. 1643Milton Divorce ii. xvii, He who understands not after all this representing, I doubt [etc.]. 1666Pepys Diary 8 Aug., The representing of our want of money being now become useless. 1693Dryden Juvenal Ded. (1697) 71, I..apply'd my self to the representing of Blindsides, and little Extravagancies.
b. attrib. in representing days (see representation 5 b, and reclaiming vbl. n. b).
1790Acts Sederunt Index, Representing Days. 1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 852 If the reclaiming, or representing days, against an interlocutor of a Lord Ordinary, had..expired, without a petition or representation [etc.].
▪ II. repreˈsenting, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That represents; representative.
1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 286 It is usual in Sacraments to call the representing Signs by the Names of the things which they represent. 1704Norris Ideal World ii. v. 289 All knowledge of him by the mediation of any representing image..being both needless and impossible. 1786A. Gib Sacr. Contempl. ii. i. v. 178 Of Him the first man was a figure, a representing type. |