c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Gouernaunce of Princis (1993) xxiii. 92 Jn the mornyng, thou suld first mak thy passyng a lytill quhile vp and doune, and strek and rak thy membris..evinly.

1599 T. M. Micro-cynicon iii. sig. B7 The slowly pacing of the seruing men, Which were appointed to attend vs then.

?a1600 (a1500) Sc. Troy Bk. (Cambr.) l. 301 in C. Horstmann Barbour's Legendensammlung (1882) II. 223 Sa fayr folk..So stalwart ine-to þar passynge, Thare contynance ande þar steringe.

1727 J. Spence Ess. on Pope's Odyssey 112 Is it not too low and rustick even for prose, to talk of the swelling loins of a Goddess, or of a Nymph's pacing along the Sand?

1824 J. Galt Rothelan II. iv. iv. 126 He now and then turned, or paused in his pacing, to look over the battlement.

1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram III. v. ii. 112 He again paused from his irregular and abrupt pacings along the chamber.

1908 ‘M. Field’ Queen Mariamne iv. iv. 89 Leave off your pacing.

1986 P. O'Brian Reverse of Medal iii. 78 He would come on deck and call the reefer on duty over to join his pacing.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Knychthede (1993) i. 5 My pallefray throu his soft passing, gave me curage to slepe.

1600 Accts. Treasurer Scotl. f. 71 Passing girdis.

1688 in Bk. Old Edinb. Club XXVII. 152 I thought on the way of breeding horse..and of the different kinds of paceing and trotting.

1706 London Gaz. No. 4285/8 Stolen or strayed..a roan Mare..all her Ways, except Pacing.

1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope (1786) II. 293 The beast [sc. a rhinoceros]..kept on an even and steady course, which, in fact, was a kind of pacing.

1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xlviii. 291 The horse's pacing made scarcely more noise than a rabbit would have done in limping along.

1885 Cent. Mag. July 397/2 Those peculiarly American forms of the race, the trotting match and the pacing-match, had come into being..long before the expiration of the colonial period.

1946 M. C. Self Horseman's Encycl. 292 Sleepy Tom, a totally blind pacing horse which had been bought at the age of twelve for goods amounting to an estimated valuation of about thirty dollars was one of the early pacing champions.

1985 E. H. Hart German Shepherd Dog xii. 169 A gait that is considered taboo in Shepherds is pacing, yet I have never seen a well-balanced Shepherd that, at a specific rate of speed during the trot, did not pace.

2003 Christchurch (N.Z.) Press (Nexis) 18 July It was the first and only time in the last century that a trotting horse had beaten an outright pacing record in this country.

1895 Ld. Albemarle & G. L. Hillier Cycling (ed. 5) 342 Appended are the Rules for ‘Herne Hill Pacing’, which, if strictly enforced, insure fair pacing all round... No pacer is to remain on the path, unless actually pacing.

1935 Encycl. Sports, Games & Pastimes 206/2 Surprising records have been created by pacing, since motorcycles and cars became available for this purpose, with wind-shields attached to the rear to protect the cyclist from wind resistance. These wind-shields also act as a sucker and help to draw him along.

1974 Sunday Mirror 21 July 38/1 Schaer..indulged in some unfair ‘pacing’ tucking himself in behind..Doyle and refusing official requests to move away.

2001 Engineering (Nexis) 1 Jan. 40 The time trial event reduces the sport of cycling to the bare essentials... There's no slipstreaming, no team tactics and no pacing.

1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 62/1 Pacing, going in front so as to quicken the speed at which the race is being run, or at which some particular competitor is running.

1933 Times 3 Mar. 6/2 Karran, whose time was as good as anything done at Cambridge for some years..owed much to the capital pacing of E. D. B. Laborde, who ran two fast laps and then cracked.

1955 R. Bannister First Four Minutes x. 123 This was the first of many occasions when Chris Chataway helped me with the pacing in the early stages.

1989 Independent (BNC) 2 Oct. He hoped to surpass Cram's fastest mile time of the year..but after two laps of inadequate pacing, he was never in prospect.

1958 Times 7 Nov. 18/5 So much was right in Mr. Karajan's reading of Brahms in C minor—the structural proportions, the pacing, the attention to contrasts of mood and sensibility—that [etc.].

1986 ARTnews Nov. 11/1 In its slow pacing, underplaying of emotions and deliberate artifice..the film departs waywardly from the Hollywood model.

1990 P. Bjarkman Baseball & Game of Life Introd. p. xvi Baseball provides the very essence of fictional structure with its perfect pacing of intense action alongside welcomed respite and dramatic pause.

2002 Guardian (Nexis) 21 Nov. 4 I'm very keen on the pacing of books and writing, and sometimes computers can be a huge help in getting that pacing right.

1962 Lancet 29 Dec. 1369/2 We report here our experience of artificial pacing in nineteen patients, with special emphasis on the management of Stokes-Adams attacks in hospital, and the emergency control of rhythm by the electrode catheter.

1975 J. Fleming in F. J. Fawcett Cardiol. i. 24 Electrical pacing of the heart on a short or long term basis is now firmly established as a valuable measure.

1991 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 9 Mar. 594/2 My first solo pacing was an emergency; I had seen and assisted at one previous pacing.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. i. 73 When he bestrides the lasie pacing [1599 puffing] cloudes. View more context for this quotation

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Chiné, a hackney, a guelding, an ambling or pacing nag.

1611 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) III. 163 Sir Thomas of Cullayne [was]..ryding upoun ane paissing naig.

1652 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Hist. Relations Flanders 152 When the Coach-horses were tired; he and his wife got upon the pacing geldings.

1714 S. Croxall Orig. Canto Spencer 22 Eftsoons there forward came a comely Pair, On stately pacing Coursers mounted high.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison II. xvii. 176 The blind god sets you out, where you mean the best, on a pacing beast.

1814 F. Burney Wanderer V. ix. lxxxiv. 157 In a short time, she heard the quick pacing step of a man in haste.

1859 O. W. Holmes Boston Hill 23 I hear their pacing sentry's tread.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. p. xix The figures of goats, of running and pacing wild asses, and of dogs.

1911 K. Tynan New Poems 63 He heard light footfalls and fairy laughter And the pacing steed of the queen thereafter.

1971 Amer. Jrnl. Cardiol. 27 224 (title) Temporary pervenous pacing catheter insertion through a tricuspid prosthetic valve.

1986 D. Potter Singing Detective v. 184 The [station] platform is occupied only by a pacing man talking to himself, a young woman and a boy.