adhibitingn.

1637 in W. M. Morison Decisions Court of Session (1805) XXIX. 12265 (modernized text) The reason of reduction was, that the horning purported not, that six knocks were given at the rebel's dwelling-house, as in custom is requisite; and that the register of hornings..purported no such record of adhibiting of knocks.

1678 J. Browne Compl. Treat. Preternatural Tumours xxix. 194 It may arise secondly, either from a concomitant Malignity either brought outwards to the Body, by the biting of some venemous creature, or by adhibiting of Septicks.

1722 E. Halley in Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 37 Next to the adhibiting of the Bitters in substance, such as Wormwood, Gentian, and Camomile Flowers, this is the most convenient way of administring them.

1859 Sc. Jurist 31 175/1 The minor was objected to by the panel as irrelevant, on the ground that the mere adhibiting of a mark or cross, intending it to pass for the mark of another, did not amount in law to the crime of forgery.

1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 390 In common diseases..they will condescend to such profane processes as adhibiting sternutatories.

1899 H. Goudy Muirhead's Hist. Introd. Law Rome (ed. 2) 67 The touching of the scales with a bit of metal was as good an index that the transaction was perfect as the adhibiting of a seal.

1975 U.S. Patent 3,869,330 2 A turret wheel is provided to aid in the adhibiting of the label or labels to the package.