1764 Acc. Coll. New-Jersey 25 All these compositions before mentioned, are critically examined with respect to the language, orthography, pointing, capitalizing.

1797 D. Wakefield Observ. Credit & Finances Great Brit. vi. 45 Including as debt now owing what has been redeemed by the..capitalizing of the annuities.

1845 Common School Jrnl. (Boston) 15 Nov. 348 Spelling, punctuation, the proper capitalizing of letters, with the construction of sentences, come under the head of Written Language.

1880 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 848 Capitalizing; that is the converting of capital and labour into more capital.

1940 A. Rochester Why Farmers are Poor v. 122 The land price represents a capitalising of the rent to be derived from value produced on the land.

1989 C. B. Ricks Tennyson (ed. 2) 339 His capitalizing of ‘death’ into ‘Death’ at once personifies it and makes it monstrously, mechanically, abstract.

2010 D. F. Sadoff Victorian Vogue i. 21 Supported by..the capitalizing of agriculture..the British landed class ‘renewed, extended and recreated’ itself.

1865 J. de Liefde tr. O. G. Heldring in Six Months Among Charities of Europe II. v. 208 As to the capitalising Societies, it appears to me that they go by a wrong principle.

1928 Atlantic Monthly June 857/1 Here, admits the capitalizing author, stepping modestly aside, is a large, dangerous word of unknown limits.

1976 T. Settle In Search of Third Way i. 10 In this book, the terms capitalist and capitalism, will be taken to refer to any capitalizing economy.

1995 Financial Times 19 May 6/5 Local telephone co-operatives will win the same conditions over fixed wire services provided they sign concession contracts with the capitalising company.

2002 A. Klima Funeral Casino 233 Those who strive to recognize the value of exchange with the dead, even their relatives, are..made to appear as though it is they who are the capitalizing profiteers.