c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prol. 719 Lo here expresse of wommen may ye fynde, That woman was the losse of al mankynde.

c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 313 Ther shull ye seen expresse..That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis.

1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. v. 225 There is not above 30 days but are windy, and rainy, or of express heat [cf. i. xii. 56 We must distinguish of warm Days, Days of Expressed Notation for Warmth or Heat].

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. i. ii. ii. 21 Spirit, is a most subtile vapor, which is expressed from the Blood.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 46 Ormus is an Ile..of which..the Siluer-shining Sand expresseth Sulpher.

1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 158 Waxe..expressing in some sort a scent of honie.

1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xi. 110 Essences..into which a thousand flowers have expressed their sweetest breath.

1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 June 5/1 Their honey-dew, which the aphides express when caressed by the antennæ of their masters.

1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 289 To expresse, and make use of that sweet fruit.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. vii. 197 A bladder blowne is weightier then one empty, and if it containe a quart, expressed and emptied it will abate about halfe a graine. View more context for this quotation

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Nutmeg Heat the Nutmegs in a Kettle, and then to express them strongly.

1882 Med. Temp. Jrnl. 51 141 After the grapes have been expressed.

1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) 152 Seeng herself so sore expressyd, her knyghtes and her men slayne.

1649 E. Reynolds Israels Prayer (new ed.) ii. 83 They should the better expres the condition of strangers.

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. ii. §6 A Child to express coming into the world, an old man for going out of it.

1684 R. Howlett School Recreat. 115 The Characters placed on the five Lines, express the Notes themselves.

a1749 Boyse Triumphs Nat. 199 The dim twilight of the arch above Seems to express the queen's disastrous love.

1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) at Fluxion To express the fluxions of simple variable quantities..you need only put the..letters which express them with a dot over them.

1811 C. Hutton Course Math. III. 372 The fluxional equa. expressing the relation between x and z.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 38 Instruments have even been described, which express upon paper..the several winds that have blown.

1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 34 If we express the composition of camphoric acid by the formula 5(C²H¹½) + O⁵.

1857 F. D. Maurice Epist. St. John xvii. 275 The divine, holy, self-sacrificing life which it [the blood sign] would appear to express.

1918 E. B. Babcock & R. E. Clausen Genetics in Relation to Agric. v. 69 The condition of dominance..is determined by the fact that in the hybrid that character is expressed to the exclusion of its contrasted character.

1927 Genetics 12 153 In these cultures the radius incompletus character is usually expressed more strongly in those flies which show the character Alae divergentes.

1946 R. R. Gates Human Genetics I. ii. 15 Many cases are now known in which the same abnormality is strictly dominant in some pedigrees and sometimes skips a generation in others... The gene is present in the germplasm, as shown by its transmission to the next generation, but for some reason it has completely failed to express itself.

1965 H. E. Sutton Introd. Human Genetics ix. 109 A dominant gene may be defined as one that is expressed when present in a single copy.

1968 New Scientist 7 Nov. 313/1 As every cell in a multi-cellular organism contains an identical set of genes directing the synthesis of its proteins, the problem of development comes down to a question of controlling the expression of genes (a gene is said to be ‘expressed’ when the protein for which it codes is actually being made in the cell). Thus in a liver cell, different genes are expressed than in, say, a brain cell.

1970 Sci. Jrnl. June 42/3 In parthenogenesis..the lethal gene is dominant and consequently its lethal effect is expressed.