c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 429 (MED) Sufficient representing is includid þat þo jewis..vndirstonde..þo storial deedis of þe newe testament.

c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine (Arun. 396) (1893) iv. 1502 (MED) These fayre riche sepultures..be-tokene in her representyng That there is beryed duke or ellis kyng.

1566 N. Sanders Supper of Our Lord (new ed.) vi. f. 303^v If our figuratiue diuines expound, this body, for the signe or the representing of this body..: then the wise men adored in the manger the signe of Christes body.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. C2^v Poesie..is an arte of imitation,..that is to say, a representing, counterfetting, or figuring foorth.

1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 66 He who understands not after all this representing, I doubt, [etc.].

1666 S. Pepys Diary 8 Aug. (1972) VII. 239 The representing of our wants of money being now become uselesse.

1771 J. Entick New Lat. & Eng. Dict. at Commissio The representing of plays upon the stage, or the beginning of them.

1807 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 25 Apr. 644 The representing of their enemy as destroyed was regarded as likely to insure their future zealous attention to their duty.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. ii. xvii. 8 Let us always have men ready to give the loving pains of a life to the faithful representing of commonplace things.

1911 Yale Law Jrnl. 21 389 These canons..condemn among other things as unprofessional the representing of conflicting interests.

1957 W. Bridges-Adams Irresistible Theatre i. x. 64 The parts of Gluttony, Avarice or Lechery call insistently for the representing of a glutton, a miser or a harlot.

2002 T. Edensor Nat. Identity, Pop. Culture & Everyday Life v. 159 In addition to the marketing and representing of places via cinematic links, heritage interpretation increasingly relies on audio-visual presentations.

1766 Answers for J. Gordon of Craig 10 It appears very clearly, and indeed is not denied, that the representing days were elapsed.

1790 Acts Sederunt Scotl. 79 Where an Ordinary refuses a representation..any further representation, though presented, shall not stop the running of the representing days, unless it is written on by the Ordinary.

1808 in J. M'Laren Coll. Public Gen. Statutes (1861) ii. 110 Provided always, and be it enacted, That if the Reclaiming or Representing Days against an Interlocutor of a Lord Ordinary shall, from Mistake or Inadvertency, have expired.

1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 852 If the reclaiming, or representing days, against an interlocutor of a Lord Ordinary, had..expired, without a petition or representation, [etc.].

1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1108/1 Sir Thomas Persye Earle of Worcester, Lord Steward of the kynges house..brake his whyte staffe, which is the representing signe and token of his office.

1600 R. Kittowe Loues Load-starre sig. I2^v Then much lesse maist thou Katherina expresse the summarie effect, of so exquisite a quintescence: or shewe but the representing shadow, of such a rare superficies.

1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. 895 It is usual in Sacraments to call the representing signs by the Names of the things which they represent.

1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. v. 289 All knowledge of him by the mediation of any representing image..being both needless and impossible.

1786 A. Gib Καινα και Παλαια: Sacred Contempl. ii. i. v. 178 Of Him the first man was a figure, a representing type.

1829 London Encycl. XIV. 372/2 Every representation requires a representing subject and a represented object.

1887 B. Hastie tr. B. Pünjer Hist. Christian Philos. of Relig. i. viii. 483 Hence every Monad is a representing thing; it is a mirror of the universe.

1934 S. C. Kleene & J. B. Rosser Gödel's Undecidable Propositions Formal Math. Syst. (typescript) 3 A relation R shall be recursive if the representing function is recursive.

2001 R. B. Taylor Breaking away from Broken Windows viii. 323 The representing organizations took steps to reinforce their boundaries as needed.