c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 6 As for declaringis and decidingis of questiouns and doutis whiche mowe be maad in manye foolde caasis of preier,..of matrymonye and of alle suche oþere, it is to haue recours vnto oþere bookis.

?1532 Glasse of Truthe sig. C8^v There is or ought to be a speciall iurisdiction or power within euery prouince: in ecclesiasticall obseruations & decidinge of causes.

1576 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 382 For the decyding of the same matter.

1630 E. Cary tr. J. D. Du Perron Reply to Answeare of King iv. xiii Wee should leaue the deciding of the sence of the wordes of the lawe, to the preoccupated vnderstanding of the Aduocates and parties.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xiii. 80 In deciding of Questions in Philosophy.

1732 Polit. State Great Brit. Oct. 279 This new sort of Members [sc. of the Parliament] did not trouble themselves much about the deciding of Private Law-Suits.

1756 London Evening Post 16 Oct. The Deciding of Equity will be left to the most avaricious Cormorant.

1853 E. C. Gaskell Ruth II. viii. 211 She was weary of hearing all the..deciding and undeciding, and re-deciding, before it was possible for her to go.

1883 Cent. Mag. Apr. 915/2 The deciding as to the players..took three days' time.

1914 B. White Carpenter & Rich Man xiii. 208 Perpetually, the congress of the soul is in session, busy with counsellings and votings and decidings.

1953 Amarillo (Texas) Sunday News-Globe 13 Dec. 7 b/1 Why weren't the people of Amarillo given some voice in the deciding of names of the new schools?

2013 E. Mak Judicial Decision-making in Globalised World ii. 35 Arguments which are essential to the deciding of the case.

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iv. To King sig. Bbb.viij The auncient custome and lawes receiued, namely, that, wherin they alone do sit, & haue, as they call it, deciding voyces, to whom power is permitted to determine & giue sentence in the counsel.

1646 J. Cooke Vindic. Professors Law 88 The deciding point of power must rest in some Court determinately, for there is and must be in every Kingdome, one supreame Tribunall from which there can be no appeale.

1646 J. Ley Light for Smoke xvi. 44 Their deliberations, objections, and obstructions that step in, and keepe out deciding votes.

1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 68 This is a very great question, and a deciding question.

1712 Hist. Prince Mirabel's Infancy & Disgrace: Pt. II 47 Their Generals..had held his Hands, when he had a fair Opportunity of putting an end to the War at once, and would not let him give the Deciding Blow.

1763 D. Mallet Elvira iv. ix. 55 On this important, this deciding moment Our mutual fate depends.

1803 Cobbett's Ann. Reg. 3 783 A deciding voice in all the affairs of the German Empire.

1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) II. viii. vii. 74 The deciding epoch of his [sc. Behmen's] life.

1868 T. Lewis & A. Gosman tr. J. P. Lange Genesis 282/2 It is not easy to see how such amours with individual women could have had so decided an effect upon the destiny of the whole race, at a time, too, when..men formed the deciding factor.

1904 Advocate of Peace Dec. 1904/1 Mr. Gram was chosen president of the tribunal and has the deciding vote.

1946 Q. Rev. July 340/2 McJames won the deciding game.

2012 Tennishead Apr. 118/6 The Russian threw in five of her 10 double faults in the match in the deciding set but, this time, didn't allow it to undermine her confidence.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xiii. 366 Herodotus..hath cleared this point..and so decidingly concludeth. View more context for this quotation

1817 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 13 129 To prove unequivocally and decidingly, by experiments, whether muriatic acid, and oxygenated muriatic acid, be really oxygenated substances.

1929 Sci. Newslet. 15 249/1 Prof. Kendall..introduces us to Schrödinger and de Broglie, who are decidingly disconcerting to those of us brought up to believe in solid matter and little round hard atoms.

2007 G. Kleinstauber et al. in Peregrine Conf. Abstr. 32 The choice of tree-nesting is decidingly influenced by imprinting on that type of nesting.