1483 in Trans. E. Lothian Antiquarian & Field Naturalists' Soc. (1932) 2 104 That all prenteissis..sall pay to the box fourtie shillingis and twentie shilling for buiking and registren of thame.

1545 Oliphants in Scotl. 78 Thair lauchfull procuratouris to consent to the regestrein of this present contract.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 59 Y^e registring of our tumultuous times & daungerous chaunces.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ii2 The Registring of doubts hath two excellent vses. View more context for this quotation

1653 Acts & Ordin. Parl. (Scobell) c. 6. 227 A Book of good Vellum or Parchment for the Registring of all such Marriages.

1712 H. Prideaux Direct. Church-wardens (ed. 4) 99 For the Registring of such Baptisms.

1825 Act 6 George IV c. 110 (title) An Act for the registering of British Vessels.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 258 The means by which the successive impressions..are to be brought exactly to join each other..; this is by printers called registering.

1846 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 6th Ser. 199 The whole process has come to be termed, in the technical language of the roperies, registering.

1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 111 By registering, we here understand, the mode in which the various registers of an organ are combined.

1907 Southeastern Reporter 56 993/2 The trespass notices must precede the registering of the land, and without them no registering can take place.

1920 A. A. Preciado Exporting to World xxiii. 388 In due course of time the Office will issue a certificate certifying the registering of the trade-mark in that office.

1958 J. E. Morton Molluscs viii. 150 Any detailed registering of the substratum by a ‘touch memory’ would seem to be ruled out by..the different homeward path sometimes taken.

1989 N. Sherman Fabric of Char. iii. 56 Ethical perception is a registering of the ethical features of a situation in response to which action may be required.

2007 A. Megill Hist. Knowl., Hist. Error i. i. 24 The registering of facts in historical records, and the registering of the facts conveyed by the records within the minds of historians, would be impossible without memory.

1808 National Reg. 31 July 486/2 On a registering thermometer, near the Quay, it stood on Thursday at 97.

1836 Act 6 & 7 William IV c. 86 §31 Every such Registering Officer of the Quakers [etc.].

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola III. xvii. 188 A temporary post as an extra cancelliere or registering secretary under the Ten.

1877 Nature 13 Sept. 421/2 The metallic spiral must be placed very close to the registering apparatus.

1905 Letters Patent in L. Phillips Transvaal Probl. App. G, 329 It shall be the duty of the Registering Officer to receive and deal..with all claims to be registered as a voter.

1932 Astrophysical Jrnl. 76 117 A registering microphotometer having a radiometer as the light-sensitive element has been built at the Mount Wilson Observatory and is now in regular use.

1947 A. J. A. Waldock Paradise Lost & its Critics ii. 26 Differences mount with sophistication—because the registering mind, so to say, comes to know too much.

1968 F. E. Perry Law & Pract. relating to Banking xi. 45 The name of the stock holder was ‘inscribed’ in the books of the registering authority—usually the Bank of England.

1971 Gloss. Electrotechn. Power Terms (B.S.I.) i. iv. 17 Registering mechanism, of an integrating meter.

2006 Building & Environment 41 449/2 The method..allows reaching an accuracy level superior to that of the precision of the registering instruments used.