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▪ I. suiting, vbl. n.|ˈs(j)uːtɪŋ|
[f. suit v. + -ing1.]
†1. The action of doing suit at a court. Obs.
c1540in J. R. Boyle Hedon (1875) App. 71 Yf anye tenante make defaulte of sewtinge of the said courte at two tymes in the yere.
†2. The action of suing for something; suing out a writ; petitioning, supplication; paying court to a woman. Obs.
1561Reg. Privy Council Scot. Ser. i. I. 163 To charge..all utheris personis fra all suting or persewing of the saidis confirmationis. 1572Knox in Calderwood's Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) III. App. 767 For suting of justice of the kirk's actions in the session. 1579–80Reg. Privy Council Scot. Ser. i. III. 269 The suitting of redres. 1591R. Bruce Serm. (Ps. xl.) V vij b, Our suddantie is so greate..that wee cannot continue in suting. 1631R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlew. 130 There is no time that exacts more modesty of any woman, than in her time of suiting.
attrib.1690C. Nesse Hist. & Myst. O. & N.T. I. 158 Mark well who carrieth it in this suiting work.
3. Fitting or adaptation of one thing to another.
1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 89 In the suiting of the Land and Marle together, lies the chief advantage. Ibid. II. 276 The third occasion of Unfruitfulness is the not suiting of your Fruit and Soil together. 1898Westm. Gaz. 3 Feb. 3/1 The suiting of one thing to another.
†4. The action of clothing or attiring. Obs.
a1637B. Jonson Discov. (1641) 92 That though the nakednesse would shew deform'd and odious, the suiting of it [sc. a lie] might draw their Readers.
5. concr. Trade name for: Material for making suits of clothes; formerly freq. pl. Also applied to the finished garments.
1883Daily News 10 Sept. 2/6 The..demand for..fancy tweed suitings continues good. 1923A. Huxley Antic Hay iii. 34 A very small man..popped out from a canyon..between two stratified precipices of mid-season suitings. 1930Daily Express 8 Sept. 11/5 This cardigan type of tailored suit is made of a soft suiting tweed. 1957L. Durrell Bitter Lemons 44 His rusty, moth-bedevilled business suiting and wrinkled dicky suggested extremes of dreadful indigence. 1980J. B. Hilton Anathema Stone iii. 28 [He] left the farm with a sample of his suiting in the jaws of a bull-mastiff.
▪ II. † ˈsuiting, ppl. a. Obs.
[f. suit v. + -ing2.]
Fitting, suitable.
1642Declar. Lords & Comm. 9 Jan. 3 Some suting course how to have the want of Armes..to be supplyed. 1708J. Philips Cyder ii. 415 Now sportive Youth Carol incondite Rhythms, with suiting Notes. 1801E. Helme St. Marg. Cave (1819) IV. vii. 95 For my honour and her own it is necessary that all should be suiting. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. (1823) I. 113 Wildness is my suiting scene.
Hence † ˈsuitingly adv., fittingly.
1540Palsgr. Acolastus i. i. D j, Lyke as it is in maner sutyngly or throughly agreinge betwene vs, so must it nedes cause mutuall loue betwene vs. |