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▪ I. reˈturning, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb, in various senses.
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 2095 The day approcheth of hir retournynge. 1485Caxton Chas. Gt. 34 In retournyng he demaunded..lycence to departe. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cvi. 127 At the retournynge of therle of Derby to Bourdeaux. a1569A. Kingsmill Confl. w. Satan (1578) 29 Repentance, or Returning is the hatred of sin and love of righteousness. 1613Drummond of Hawthornden Cypress Grove Wks. (1711) 121 A never again returning to the Works and dolorous Felicity of Life. 1632Lithgow Trav. i. 32 To visite Venice, in his returning home for Scotland. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 14 They are..asham'd of the returning, which only can make them be esteem'd wise Men. 1747tr. Astruc's Fevers 135 Being always attended with bad digestions, these returnings, anxieties, &c. are inseparable from a slow fever. 1827Scott Napoleon Introd., Wks. 1870 IX. 317 A late returning to ancient opinions. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xxii, Neither of these returnings were very pleasant or desirable. 1871R. Ellis tr. Catullus lxiv. 210 Fair token of happy returning.
2. A return; a backward turn or bend.
1613–39I. Jones in Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) II. 44 The returning of the Basso-relievo. 1676Moxon Print Lett. 50 The..Returnings of Angles..are..seen. 1715tr. Pancirollus' Rerum Mem. I. ii. xv. 103 This Labyrinth..had only one Entrance, but innumerable Turnings and Returnings. 1893Shedlock tr. Riemann's Dict. Mus. 810/1 Even trumpets of the 16th century show no returnings, but only winding.
▪ II. reˈturning, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That comes back or returns, in various senses.
1694Kettlewell Comp. Penitent 92 With a contrite and a returning Heart. 1702Rowe Tamerl. i. i, Hail to the Sun! from whose returning Light [etc.]. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. viii. 370 He..resolved to cruise for these returning vessels. 1778F. Burney Evelina iii, How grateful..must be your returning health! 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxii. IV. 705 The first faint signs of returning prosperity. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 819 The innermost cylinder [in an intussuscepted bowel] is known as the entering layer and the middle one as the returning layer.
b. Situated on a return.
1776Semple Building in Water 102 The Grooves on the corner Pile, and the Tongue on the next returning Pile.
2. returning officer, the official whose duty it is to conduct or preside at an election, and to report the result to the proper authority.
1729Act 2 Geo. II, c. 24 §2 Every Sheriff, Mayor, Bailiff..or other Person, being returning Officer of any Member to serve in Parliament..shall take..the following Oath. 1764Foote Mayor of G. 1, If your Worship has any objection to Crispin Heeltap the cobler's being returning officer? 1818Parl. Debates 644 He objected..to the power given to the returning officers to appoint any number of constables. 1863H. Cox Instit. i. vi. 62 An elector might bring actions at law against returning officers for refusing his vote.
3. Elective; having the power to elect.
1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 354 This right to preside remained in the same burgh during the entire Parliament, that burgh being what is called the returning burgh. 1876Daily News 20 Nov. 5/2 The Returning Board in Florida is a mixed one, in which the Democrats are understood to have a majority.
4. returning sticks: (see return n. 13 b). |