1584 Discouerie Treasons F. Throckmorton sig. A. iiii Frauncis Throckmorton tooke vpon him to be a follower and meane for the effectuating therof.

1596 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 146 For effectuating therof, the persones..convenit nominat the..prouest to draw the lott for thame.

1619 in Eng. & Ger. (1865) 47 For the disguising and effectuating of their designes.

1630 H. Lord Display Two Forraigne Sects 85 They make as few instruments serve for the effectuating of divers workes as may bee.

1717 J. Hog in E. Fisher's Marrow Mod. Divinity (1781) Pref. 15 The relucence of gospel-light has been the choice mean..for the effectuating of great things.

1893 Times 13 Oct. 8/1 The effectuating of these alterations would not necessarily carry the licence.

1924 Columbia Law Rev. 24 775 In the case of a court which realizes that the result is merely the effectuating of a policy, this does no harm.

1967 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 26 223/2 It serves dramatic ends, such as the effectuating of humorous answers from Ion.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 87 The effectuating cause of sensation.

1703 H. Hall tr. R. F. R. Bellarmino Soul's Ascension to God xiii. 206 We have consider'd the Wisdom of God as it is in Theory: his Practical Wisdom falls now under Consideration, which also we may call his effectuating Wisdom.

1851 W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers (1854) II. 158 The effectuating influence.

1947 Amer. Econ. Rev. 37 173 It is now but an effectuating agency, a complex mechanism, the impulses for whose every action arise elsewhere.

1981 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 101 467/2 The basic function underlying the uses of the middle voice in Indo-European was that of an ‘eventive’, i.e., that it indicated a process which happened to, or affected a person (the subject), without mention of an effectuating agent.