1652 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Hist. Relations Flanders 115 The other chiefest affairs consisted in..the adjusting of confines.

1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes ii. 52 To look through every circumstance necessary to be considered in the adjusting of this point so as exactly to hit it.

1713 G. C. in H. More Divine Dialogues (ed. 2) Pref. p. iii The Adjusting of the Phenomena of the World to the Goodness of his Providence.

1794 E. Home in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 85 18 In the adjusting of the eye to different distances.

1827 High Life I. viii. 89 They wished good night, and after an adjusting of cloaks and shawls,..got into their carriages.

1833 Times 5 July 4/4 The only difficulty was the adjusting of the terms and conditions of the charter.

1868 T. Parsons Treat. Law of Marine Insurance II. 389/2 It is more analogous to the adjusting of a partial loss.

1908 Syst: Mag. of Business 13 68/1 A displeased customer who is not satisfied with the adjusting of her complaint will do the store more harm than ten satisfied customers will ever do good.

1973 J. Moran Printing Presses xii. 179 The adjusting of the specially cast type on to the cylinders was an elaborate business.

2008 Daily Tel. 27 May (Business section) b2/3 It is the household sector that will have to do most of the adjusting in the coming correction, as real incomes are squeezed.

1736 J. Grundy Exam. & Refut. Mr Badeslade's New-cut Canal 34 To this Instrument there is a Ball and Socket nicely fix'd between the parallel Plates, and so many adjusting Screws, as to fix the Telescope in an exact horizontal Position in any Part of the Circle.

1772 N. Maskelyne in Philos. Trans. 1771 (Royal Soc.) 61 102 I would by all means recommend an adjusting piece to be applied to the telescope, whereby its axis may be brought parallel to the plane of the quadrant.

1841 W. Mackenzie Physiol. Vision xi. 151 Distantial aberration..would have produced a false impression of the relative size of the flames to the distance between them, unless the eye possessed an adjusting power.

1879 S. Highley in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 257/2 Two-sharp edges were left to bite on the adjusting clamp-tube.

1925 H. C. Booth tr. F. Auerbach Mod. Magnetics (U.K. ed.) ix. 215 By means of the adjusting screws the mirror is placed at right-angles to the magnetic axis of the bar.

1970 K. Ball Fiat 600, 600D Autobook x. 121/2 (caption) Adjusting brake shoe cams. Movement of the ring spanner..on the adjusting nut.

2002 J. C. Wharton Nature Cures viii. 172 The patient, whatever his nationality, should be made to lie face down on the adjusting table, a bench with an open section in its middle, the subluxated portion of his body above the open space.

1773 4th Rep. Comm. Secrecy State E. India Co. No. 61 in Rep. Comm. House of Commons (1804) IV. 248 We have in consequence authorized him to make the adjusting Entries contained in the Statement.

1877 M. M. Kirkman Railway Revenue xiii. 173 [His] account will show no corresponding debits, until the adjusting entry is made from the transfer balance sheet.

1925 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 118 185/2 Such a procedure does not give the student practice in preparing adjusting entries and other working papers from a given set of conditions.

2006 S. A. Finkler & D. M. Ward Accounting Fund. for Health Care Managem. vi. 43 These wages will not be paid until the following year. This requires an adjusting entry to accrue this year's labor expenses.