mid-coursen.adj.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iv. x. 5 As the starnys thar myd cours rollys doun.

1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos v. sig. O.iv^v And now from heauen y^e drowping night her myd course nere had past.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. f. 190 Hope stretcheth fayth to the vttermoste bonde, that it faint not in the midde course nor in the very beginning.

1613 T. Heywood Brazen Age ii. ii Let your rage Be here confin'de, cut off this purple streame In his mid course.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 204 Why in the East Darkness ere Dayes mid-course . View more context for this quotation

1701 E. Sherburne tr. Seneca Phædra & Hippolytus ii. i, in tr. Seneca Trag. 175 Thee in some shady Covert laid, When Phoebus his mid-Course hath made, Will wanton Naïad's close in Rings.

1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 185 Three of them, in mid course, bore off a small ring..on the point of his lance.

1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose ix, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. IV. 198 As dark as the shadow upon the moon..when she is darkened in her mid-course in heaven.

1882 Mind 7 155 The impression was..designed for the benefit of the large class of students deprived in mid-course of the instruction they expected.

1894 H. D. Lloyd Wealth against Commonw. 317 The gas-company suspended its operations in mid-course.

1916 C. M. Doughty Titans ii. 29 He feels already her [sc. Fate's] chill pursuing breath, Upon his neck, in strife of his mid-course.

1964 Times 1 Aug. 6 The small rocket engine which can manoeuvre the space craft slightly in mid-course.

1987 Nature 30 Apr. 815/2 Accurate tracking of missiles during their midcourse, when they are much cooler, is harder still.

1603 in Lett. & State Papers Reign James VI (1838) 53 I hoipe..in that to keep..ane midde course.

1656 R. Fletcher Poems in Ex Otio Negotium 247 But there's a mean in judgment, a mid course, A difference betwixt a Man and's Horse. A fair distinction.

1873 D. F. MacCarthy Life is Dream i. iv. 21 Thus then betwixt two doubts A mid course alone is granted.

1904 Mod. Lang. Notes 19 135/1 He follows a mid-course between the generalized essay of interpretation..and the minute analysis of texts.

1962 Mil. Affairs 26 83/1 The first two, pursuing a mid-course between a nationalist interest and Commonwealth orientation, have been willing to enter into new relationships with Washington.

1975 Nature 5 June 437/2 We need to steer a mid-course between security and bureaucracy.

1955 A. S. Locke Guidance i. 19 Terminal guidance is the guidance applied to the missile between the end of the midcourse guidance and contact with or detonation in close proximity to the target.

1959 IRE Trans. Mil. Electronics 3 159/1 The midcourse corrections may also remove residual parallel components.

1988 A. C. Clarke 2061: Odyssey Three 57 Universe was the first spaceship ever built to cruise under continuous acceleration, except for the few hours of the mid-course ‘turnaround’.

1999 Proc. SPIE (Internat. Soc. Optical Engin.) 3699 133 Ballistic missiles can separate in mid-course flight producing several components.

1971 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 42 137 Student responses to the mid-course questionnaires.

1975 Amer. Math. Monthly 82 110 His influence on the Association, however strong, is a momentary thrust, a mid-course correction.

1976 Chem. Week (Nexis) 3 Mar. 25 It also calls for another ‘mid-course’ review in 1985, conducted by a new body similar to the NCWQ.

1982 N.Y. Times Mag. 26 Sept. 12 ‘We obviously need midcourse corrections,’ said budgeteer David Stockman, arguing for a tax increase after the big flip-flop.

1990 Jrnl. Econ. Lit. 28 78/1 Initial overfunding leads to midcourse corrections and failure to complete all planned projects.

1996 Ecol. Applic. 6 1375/1 Because prediction of the consequences of perturbation is uncetain, an adaptive strategy with continuous monitoring and mid-course corrections is necessary.