1645 T. Urquhart Trissotetras 13 A subducting of a lesser from a greater, whether it be side or Angle.

1690 S. Slater Souls Return to its God sig. C4^v Upon the subducting of many of his common hearers, our Saviour propounded to his Disciples this Question, Will ye also go away?

1704 W. Kennett Case of Impropriations 62 A subducting [of] their former Profits, had put them under a necessity of closeness and narrowness of Living.

1763 A. Grey Deb. House of Commons, 1667–94 III. 139 The recalling those men has an influence on the war... 'Tis a subducting.

1827 Encycl. Londinensis XXII. 33/1 That which has the power of subducting or withdrawing.

1891 T. Brett Comm. Present Laws Eng. (ed. 2) II. vii. 991 The..subducting of the caveat leaves the Court free to act without notice to the caveator.

1977 F. P. Shepard Geol. Oceanogr. 18 This..probably would have resulted in the subducting of every portion of the Pacific crust​.

2002 B. M. Jakosky Search Life Other Planets iii. 39 Schematic diagram showing the spreading of oceanic crust that occurs above upwelling mantle regions and the subducting of oceanic crust beneath continents.

1729 A. Motte tr. I. Newton Math. Princ. Nat. Philos. I. xi. 243 It is plain that when the apsides are in the syzygies, they will, by reason of the subducting force KL or NM—LM, go forward more swiftly.

1818 Portico 5 188 Condensation..is thus made, not by a gradual, progressive, introduction of a subducting medium, but..is completed in a moment of time too small for sensible cognisance.

1971 Nature 15 Oct. 465/1 Little stress is transmitted across subduction zones from the subducting oceanic lithosphere to the upper plate much beyond the arc.

1980 Economist 16 Aug. 64 Where two plates collide, one plate plunges beneath the other... The world's deep ocean trenches mark the graves of such ‘subducting’ plate edges.

2007 L. A. Spalletti & J. R. Franzese in Z. Gasparini et al. Patagonian Mesozoic Reptiles ii. 43 The shallowing of the subducting slab increased compression across the arc.