1637 S. Rutherford Let. 11 Sept. (1848) cclx. 517 The Lord, who hath..stopped the on-going of that lawless process.

1658 J. Durham Comm. Bk. Revelation 639 It implieth..a slowness in its on-going.

1710 in W. M. Inglis Angus Parish (1904) 57 Given in by Grizelle Watson, by appointment of the presbytery, for her scandalous ongoing with Ogilvie of Peill, £10 Scots.

1860 F. W. Faber Precious Blood iii. 107 Not only is the continuous preservation of all things..an almost illimitable extension and ongoing of creation, but new souls of men are literally created out of nothing every moment of time.

1880 W. M. Thomson Land & Bk. 2 The long ongoing and outworking of the Mosaic Economy.

1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 June 4/2 The reposeful grounds..were never more than half full, and everyone had an air of restless ongoing.

1915 M. E. King Gothic Ruin & Reconstruction 7 Progress!—so good a word when saved to the real life of man and its on-going!

1962 Listener 11 Oct. 559/1 Experiment must be analytical and predictive in its actual on-going.

1977 Times 11 Apr. 5/7 The logical conclusion of a process long in the ongoing.

1673 in J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. (1876) 177 [The Council of Paisley] moved by certain ongoings in their midst ordain that changes selling drink to scholars shall pay [etc.].

1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 23 362 The inner on-goings, beneath what, to our imaginations is a hallowed roof.

1856 D. Masson Ess. Biogr. & Crit. iii. 57 [Milton] had to describe the ongoings of angels.

1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders 151 It breaks my heart to hear you upholding such ongoings.

1934 J. Angus Sheltering Pine i. iv. 2 Even to this day there's queer ongaein's there.

1977 N. Marsh Last Ditch vi. 165 I want to stay..I'm sorry, but I am mixed up in the on-goings.

1999 M. P. Ginsberg & M. Ron Flirting With Uncanny 21 The ongoings at the eye clinic.

1841 Dublin Univ. Mag. Dec. 716 Nothing better for the ongoing expenses of an establishment, than an attorney's bills of cost.

1851 N. Brit. Rev. May 144 All the master-spirits of this ongoing age of positive and indefeasible science.

1877 J. Blackwood Let. 15 Oct. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1956) VI. 405 This edition..will be a steady on-going thing, a capital leading franchise in the business.

1937 L. T. Hopkins Integration i. 2 Integration must be the shorthand word to describe the process involved in this intelligent ongoing, interacting, adjusting behavior.

1960 in L. Pincus Marriage 8 The worker's capacity to learn from his on-going cases.

1984 M. J. Taussig Processes in Pathol. & Microbiol. (ed. 2) 74 Clinical skin tests for prior or ongoing bacterial, fungal or viral infection.

2000 Monitor (Kampala) 28 Apr. 13/6 The teachers were attending an on-going teachers' verification exercise to eliminate fake teachers and poor performers.

1956 H. M. Kallen Cultural Pluralism 189 Past and present mingle their lights to breed the future formations wherewith the many keep themselves, one and all, ongoingly American.

1989 J. Tatelbaum You don't have to Suffer (1990) ii. xv. 90 Another chronic source of our halfhearted living is that we wait for life to present itself to us, instead of creating life ongoingly.

2009 N. Baker Anthologist xvii. 242 I wonder what it must be like to be part of something ongoingly huge like a number-one sitcom.

1932 Social Forces 11 294/2 There seems to be an absence of continuity and integration,—of the on-going-ness and vital interactions of social life.

1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 10 Aug. 19/4 Hopper's paintings are not vacancies in a rich ongoingness.