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▪ I. smiting, vbl. n.|ˈsmaɪtɪŋ|
[f. smite v.]
1. The action of the verb; beating, striking. Also fig.
c1330Arth. & Merl. 8874 (Kölbing), Wiþ smiteing & wiþ skirminge. 1382Wyclif 1 Macc. xv. 6 Y suffre thee for to make smytyng, or printe, of thin own money. a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 51 Þe skyn was noȝt cleuen alsone after þe smytyng. c1491Caxton Chast. Goddes Chyld. 74 Say thries this verse with smyting on the brest. 1560Bible (Geneva) 1 Kings xx. 37 The man smote him, and in smiting wounded him. 1660J. Taylor Worthy Comm. i. iii. 55 It was not that smiting that beat the Syrians. 1694J. Kettlewell Comp. Penitent 111 Father, let thy smiteing reclaim and amend me. 1820Scott Monast. xxxv, It is but the smiting of an Egyptian when all is said out. 1842Manning Serm. ii. (1848) 29 Who does not feel within the smiting of conscience. 1887Athenæum 26 Mar. 417/3 It is not everybody..who could take such friendly smiting in this spirit.
attrib.1653R. Sanders Physiogn. 188 The inflammation and smiting pain of the head.
b. With a and pl. An instance of this.
c1380Wyclif Last Age Ch. (1840) 32 Smyttingis to-gidere of folkis and hurtlynge to-gidere of rewmes. a1483Cath. Angl. 346/2 A Smytyng, iccio, percussio. 1615Hieron Wks. I. 598 No doubt our hearts would smite vs herein,..and happy should such secret smitings be. 1656Artif. Handsom. 131 Least they be..severe beyond Gods smitings. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. iii. v, Accelerated..by smitings, twitchings,—spurnings. 1860Patmore Faithful for Ever i. vii, In smitings as of silver bars.
2. smiting-line (see quots.).
a1625Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. MS. 2301) s.v., [The] Smitting-line is a small Roape which is made fast to the Missen yard arms. 1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. v. 22 The missen hath but one [furling-line] called the smiting line. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Smiting-Line, a line by which a yarn-stoppered sail is loosed, without sending men aloft. If well executed, marks the seaman.
▪ II. smiting, ppl. a.|ˈsmaɪtɪŋ|
Also 4 smytende.
[f. smite v.]
That smites, strikes, or beats.
1382Wyclif Prov. xix. 29 Greithid ben to scorneres domes; and smytende hameres to the bodies of foolis. 1648G. Daniel Eclog. v. 57 Dire, as the Smiting Haile to newean'd Lambs. 1840Carlyle Heroes iii. (1906) 93 One smiting word; and then there is silence. 1869T. T. Lynch Church & St. 10 The smiting strength of the lightning of God. |