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1567 T. Stapleton Counterblast iii. xxxvii. f. 361^v In the first starting vppe of your Apostle, I shoulde saye Apostata Martin Luther.

a1626 L. Andrewes Certaine Serm. 17 in XCVI Serm. (1629) The Poore..have received greater helpe in this Realme within these forty yeares last past, since (not, the starting up of our Church, as they fondly use to speake, but since) the reforming ours from the error of theirs.

a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) Introd. 30 The ancient Fathers, who lived and flourished..before the starting up of the Pelagian Controversies.

1722 D. Turner Art of Surg. II. vii. 147 Some Bearing or Protuberance happening by the starting up of the Bone.

1782 Universal Mag. Apr. 200/2 Let our success be what it might be for a time, a defeat at sea, a disaster by land, or the starting up of a new enemy, would destroy it.

1802 Med. Repository 5 133 A starting up in bed, with a wildness of countenance, and an absence of all sense of time and place.

1885 Cent. Mag. May 35/2 He [sc. a greyhound] is taken into a field, there to await the starting-up of the hare by beaters employed for that purpose.

1902 Electr. Catech. xi. 164 A small induction motor is mounted on the shaft or arranged to be belted to the synchronous motor shaft during the starting-up period.

1946 Happy Landings July 1/1 The engine was not turned by hand through one cycle before the starting-up operation.

1993 R. K. Loewen Family, Church, & Market vi. 115 Starting-up costs in Manitoba were considerably higher than those in Nebraska and Kansas.

2002 G. Hill Orchards of Syon xliii. 43 Such startings-up, slouchings, of self-hatred; a sullen belch from the ice-maker in the small hours.