?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman ii. ix. sig. Hii Ofte accompenyeng with men shulde hynder some of her good name.

1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1890) II. 30 Be pestiferous accumpaniing.

a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James III in Wks. (1711) 56 Acts were made that no Convention of Friends should be suffered for the Accompanying and Defence of criminal Persons.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Assectation, an accompanying, following or observing.

1716 H. Prideaux Old & New Test. Connected (ed. 2) I. i. 50 The Angels accompanying of Tobias in a long journey.

1783 tr. J.-J. Rousseau Confessions II. v. 14 I stuffed my head with accompanyings, concord, and harmony.

1845 J. Kitto Cycl. Biblical Lit. II. 311/1 Her accompanying of her son when he went up to Jerusalem immediately before his crucifixion.

1899 H. P. Wilkins tr. S. Jadassohn Course Instr. in Instrumentation xi. 353 The orchestra is mostly employed only for the accompanying of the chorus, arias, duets &c.

1922 Musical Times Dec. 837/1 His accompanying was a pure delight.

1978 D. Thompson Uses of Poetry ii. 22 The apocryphal acts of John..impute to Christ and his disciples the accompanying of a hymn with a round dance on the eve of the Passion.

2003 P. Crisp in J. Gavins & G. Steen Cognitive Poetics in Pract. ix. 105 The accompanying of metaphorical language by appropriate gesture is evidence for ‘online’ metaphorical processing.

1600 W. Cornwallis Ess. I. xxv. sig. N7^v But to conuerse with Experience, and then to cozen our selues of the familiarity of Vertue with accompanying Fame, is abominable.

1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines i. ii. 21 These accidents are called assistant or accompanying.

1781 London Mag. Aug. 390/1 The accompanying descriptions, which make up the sum of this work, might have been comprized in a thin pamphlet.

1790 A. W. Radcliffe Sicilian Romance I. iv. 217 The astonishment was mutual, but the accompanying feelings were, in the different persons, of a very opposite nature.

1850 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (ed. 2) iii. iii. 427 The good or the evil lies not in the affection itself, but in its accompanying desire or volition.

1880 S. Haughton Six Lect. Physical Geogr. iii. 134 The Gulf Stream is shewn in the accompanying map.

1936 W. Sheldon Dis. Infancy & Childhood xxiii. 596 In some children the changes in and around the joints make up almost the entire clinical picture, but more often there is an accompanying lymphatic reaction.

1971 Power Farming Mar. 8/3 The operation of the American silage loader..is explained in the captions to the accompanying photographs.

2009 Financial Times 28 Nov. (Fine Times Mag.) 14/3 An amazing fish soup, with accompanying rouille and croutons.

1761 Let. 21 June in Orig. Papers Disturbances in Bengal (1765) I. 114 The accompanying is a copy of two Arzees I presented to him last night, with the answers he wrote in the body thereof with his own hand.

1846 Zoologist 4 1413 As Mr. Yarrell has not included it in the second edition of his ‘British Fishes’, I have sketched a full-sized figure of it, of which the accompanying is a reduced copy.

1882 Cent. Mag. Feb. 639/2 Rubricated initials were added by Mrs. Daniel, and a rebus printers' mark and head-pieces, of which the accompanying are fac-similes, were contributed by Mr. Alfred Parsons.

1922 S. E. Davis Technique of Teaching iii. 149 The accompanying is an extract from Robinson Crusoe in words of one syllable, published in 1895.

2010 Sustainable Design of Res. Lab. (KlingStubbins) 239 The accompanying is an illustration of the differences between having a silencer in the exhaust stack and having an attenuating stack.