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1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 358 The first because of the Scorpions is coulde, the latter bycause of the spices is hoat & more strongly wurking.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rubrificatif,..a plaister of..strongly-drawing simples.

1647 H. More Philos. Poems 38 Blown away with strongly brushing winds.

1677 I. Newton Let. 19 Feb. in Corr. (1960) II. 193 Spirit of wine, though lighter yn water, is yet a more strongly refracting liquor.

1709 D. Turner Remarkable Case in Surg. 22 Pressing hard down upon one Side of the strongly resiliating Dura Mater.

1752 R. Porter in Med. Ess. & Observ. (Philos. Soc. Edinb.) (ed. 4) III. xxvii. 333 Several Clysters of the softer and the strongly irritating kind.

1769 S. Hales Statical Ess. (ed. 4) I. vi. 275 The strongly absorbing power of salts.

1811 F. Asbury Jrnl. 16 Nov. (1821) III. 319 My knee was stricken with acute rheumatic pain; I applied a strongly drawing blister.

1820 Q. Musical Mag. & Rev. 2 83 More strongly alluring future composers.

1856 R. E. E. Wilmot Diary (1984) 131 The wary pouw shows afar off in his strongly contrasting whites and browns.

1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (1875) lxxvii. 615 A sebaceous gland..which..secretes a strongly-smelling waxy substance.

1878 Manufacturer & Builder June 144/3 The oxid forms a strongly adhering coat.

1902 Perry (Iowa) Daily Chief 13 July Unless the boat be so close as to give a strongly plunging shot.

1913 India-rubber Jrnl. 11 Jan. 5/2 Such cog-wheels are not equal to the strain imposed by the strongly interacting tension of the rolls.

1923 Discovery Nov. 291/1 The strongly fuming mass [of mundic] is mechanically raked.

1943 C. De Tolnay Michelangelo 95 The broad cheeks are energetically framed by the strongly projecting chin and above by the low forehead.

1950 H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments i. 38 The strongly Minoanizing régime of LH II [= Late Helladic II, c1500-1400 bc].

1962 L. B. Okun in Proc. Internat. Conf. High-Energy Physics 845/2 I shall call strongly interacting particles hadrons.

1977 Cell 12 697/2 These tests revealed a strongly reacting antigen.

1990 P. Kearey & F. J. Vine Global Tectonics iii. 48 These aluminium and iron oxides only form in a strongly oxidizing environment.

2009 J. Frank Pleasure 88 The heaven of her strongly drawing mouth.