1784 E. Sibly New & Compl. Illustr. Astrol. ii. 741 Death arising from other causes than merely the position or transiting of the cusps of houses.

1882 Fun 20 Dec. 264/1 The transitting of Venus (pooh!) And Gladstone's jubilee, She had the condescension to Attribute these to me!

1890 Rep. Superintendent U.S. Coast & Geodetic Surv. Year Ending June 1889 139 Three of the theodolites have standards high enough to permit of the transiting of the telescopes.

1934 N.Y. Times 22 Apr. 17/2 The transiting of the 102 ships through the canal started today.

2010 Wall St. Jrnl. 10 Aug. a13/2 Nor has the president responded strongly enough to Chinese efforts to keep U.S. warships from transiting and exercising in the Yellow Sea.

1869 Pop. Sci. Rev. 8 82 The whole error of the computation..may be laid on the effects of the peculiar phenomena which attend the egress of a transiting planet.

1883 W. M. F. Petrie Pyramids & Temples of Gizeh ii. 19 By reversing the telescope..all the errors are compensated as in a transiting instrument.

1954 Transport & Communications Rev. Oct. 5/2 Most of the intercontinental air routes..call at a succession of places..which are useful sources of traffic for the transiting airline.

1982 C. Rose Astrol. Counselling viii. 102 The progressed, transiting and cyclic motions of a birth chart may well manifest in tangible and concrete events.

2006 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) July 28/2 Hubble observations of the first discovered transiting planet, the companion to the star HD 209458, have given the most detailed information about any planet outside our solar system.

2013 S. I. Cohen Econ. Models for Policy Making xv. 303 National entrepreneurship in the transiting economies may not have enough resources..to finance..the privatisation process.