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▪ I. altering, vbl. n.|ˈɔːltərɪŋ|
[f. alter + -ing1.]
The action of changing in some respect; alteration. (Now mostly gerundial.)
1513Douglas æneis xiii. iii. 39 O how grete mocioun, quhat altering vnstabill. 1628Gaule Practique The. 107 The many and strange alterings and happenings to Men. 1697Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) IV. 282 Accused of altering an exchequer bill from {pstlg}10 to {pstlg}100.
▪ II. altering, ppl. a.|ˈɔːltərɪŋ|
[f. alter + -ing2.]
1. Changing in some respect:
a. Making otherwise;
b. Becoming otherwise.
1611Shakes. Wint. T. iv. iv. 410 Is he not stupid With Age, and altring Rheumes? 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 208 Every seventh year [is] conceived to carry some altering character with it, either in the temper of body, minde, or both. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. I. 81 The altering issue proved the altering nature of the conditions.
†2. Med. = alterative a. Obs.
1605Timme Quersit. ii. iii. 115 It is become hote, and of a drying quality..which is altogether the vertue and facultie of an altering medicine. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. vi. 162 To resist the Fever onely by..altering remedies. 1720Blair in Phil. Trans. XXXI. 35, I have distributed the Plants into such as are Altering and Evacuating. |