1482 W. Caxton tr. Higden's Prolicionycion iii. xviii. f. cxxxiij^v The men of Athene..maden an ymage of gold resemblyng and remembraunce of socrates.

1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid vi. Prol. 156 Set thow to Vulcane haif full gret resembling,..Thow art bot Jovis smyth.

1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance ii. xv. f. li^v His not puttyng to answere, maketh y^e mater of my resemblyng, much the more strong for me.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Resemblement, a resembling, representing.

1658 J. Spencer Καινα και Παλαια 162 There is no truer Character of ingenuity, then an humble acknowledgment whose Creatures we are, and a carefull resembling of our Creator.

1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iii. xxx. 166/2 That Golden Chain, one End whereof is tied unto the Tongue of Man, the other End unto the Ear of God (which is as Just, as Old, a Resembling of Prayer).

1803 E. H. East Treat. Pleas of Crown I. iv. 163 Whether there be counterfeiting, or..a resembling of the real coin, is a matter of fact of which the jury are to judge.

a1856 W. Hamilton tr. Plato in Lect. Metaphysics & Logic (1859) I. iii. 52 Philosophy is a resembling of the Deity in so far as that is competent to man.

1993 B. Schein Plurals & Events v. 97 Identifying Sandy's resembling of Robin and Robin's resembling of Sandy leads only to the conclusion that Sandy resembles Sandy and Robin resembles Robin.

1573 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalipse (rev. ed.) f. 184^v The high Bishop and King of Rome hath in his resemblyng Empire obedient children.

1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 9 In most resembling unlikenes, and most unlike resemblance.

1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa IV. ii. v. 465 'Twas by many resembling expressions that the generous Zenophon evinc't to me his Fidelity.

1694 R. Burthogge Ess. Reason 265 Schenckius..Reports another but resembling story.

1710 J. Norris Treat. Christian Prudence ii. 92 Policy or Cunning comes a great deal nearer to Prudence, than Wit, as being the most resembling Imitatour.

1762 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 23/1 The face [of a coin] should have a resembling bust of his majesty.

1813 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) II. 414 The imitation..of the ‘Curse of Kehama’ is very well, but it is not so resembling a parody.

1871 N. Porter Elements of Intellect. Sci. ii. iii. 235 What we see in the resembling face, or the resembling horse, is some special and separable feature or peculiarity.

1949 Jrnl. Philos. 46 289 Does not the natural relation of resemblance endow each feature of the photograph or portrait with a meaning, i.e., the resembling feature in the subject?

1998 R. Hopkins Picture, Image & Experience v. 108 If experiences of resemblance were bound by the principle, the only properties..they would involve would be those of the resembling object.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. x. sig. F7^v The houndes were..many of them in colour and marks so resembling, that it showed they were of one kinde.

1647 W. Petty Advice to Hartlib sig. A2 There is invented an Instrument..whereby any Man, even at the first sight and handling, may write two resembling Copies of the same thing at once.

1665 R. Boyle New Exper. & Observ. Cold iv. 171 To examine with it..the Temperature, I say not, of more resembling Bodies, but of Liquors, that may be thought to have their parts..differingly agitated.

1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 13 Aug. (1965) I. 251 No 2 places were ever more ressembling.

1765 Ld. Kames Elements Crit. (ed. 3) II. xv. 34 In describing two resembling objects a resemblance in the two members of the period ought to be studied.

a1856 H. Miller Testimony of Rocks (1857) 495 They have in several respects a resembling structure.

1869 Austin's Lect. Jurispr. (ed. 3) I. v. 171 Two resembling objects are said..to be analogous, when one of them belongs to some class expressly or tacitly referred to, and the other does not.

1904 Jrnl. Philos. 1 500 In ideas between which there is no logical analogy the only common or resembling elements are accompanying feelings.

1932 Musical Times 73 113 The resembling texts are not found..only in the first part of the passion.

2006 E. J. Lowe Four-category Ontol. i. 10 Universals..are reducible to classes of resembling tropes—redness, thus, to the class of red tropes.

1661 R. Boyle Some Considerations Style Script. 253 Resemblingly transported with a like motive.

1827 Methodist Mag. Feb. 77/2 I cannot but, resemblingly transported with a like motive, exclaim with Peter, ‘It is good for me to be here.’

1968 J. Gruen Close-up 203 In the case of fiction, an imaginary character would be a character more or less invented and a nonimaginary character would be one painted directly, resemblingly from life.