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a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 8562 (MED) Þai salle be þare syker and certayne..to won ay þare, with-outen dout, And with-outen lettyng and putting out.

c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 288 (MED) He sent one of his childer þedur and warnyd hym, a [= on] payn of puttyng oute of bothe his een, to tell hym þe treuth.

1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum 238 Therwith commeth feauers,..crieng in sleepe, quaking of bodye, putting out and gnawing of the tongue.

1630 Earl of Manchester in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 271 The putting out of apprentices.

1662 G. Torriano New Fabrick Ital. Dialogues 113 in Piazza Universale (1666) Strange, what puttings in, and puttings out are here?

a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) vi. 112 The steamers in Calais Harbor..are at all times observable at Ramsgate.., from the first lighting of the fires to the putting out at sea.

1889 Cent. Mag. Oct. 835/2 The last column indicates the number of missed opportunities or ‘errors’. A player is accredited with an error for every chance he has failed to accept in a manner to result directly or indirectly in the putting out of an opponent.

1947 S. C. Adams in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 519 The younger generation are largely indifferent either as to the necessity of joining the church, or, if they are already members, as to the ‘putting out’ of the church.

1992 Cambr. Encycl. Human Evol. (1994) ix. x. 381/1 Herding intermediate between pastoralism and intensive livestock husbandry is represented by the putting out of pigs to pannage, a prominent feature of the agricultural economy of medieval Europe.

2002 Daily Tel. 11 May a3/2 At St Andrew's she discovered sex in a big way and acquired a reputation for ‘putting out’.