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▪ I. preparing, vbl. n.|prɪˈpɛərɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb prepare; preparation. (With quot. 1535 cf. preparation 3.)
1497Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 141 The preparing and reparacion with other necessaries for the Kynges..shippe. 1535Coverdale Judith vii. 2 There were..two & twentie thousande horsmen, besyde the preparynge [Wyclif redi cumpanyes] of them yt were wonne. 1586D. Rowland Lazarillo ii. (1672) 75 Whilst dinner was in preparing, they sported with the Gentlewoman. a1648Ld. Herbert Hen. VIII (1683) 52 While these things were in preparing, Mary the French Queen was..Crowned in St. Denis. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. iii. 325 The killing and preparing of provisions. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. ii. i, My sister..wants no preparing.
b. attrib. and Comb., as preparing-box, preparing-table.
1884W. S. B. McLaren Spinning (ed. 2) 81 This is..not unlike Clough's preparing-boxes, which first partially open the wool by slow-going fallers, before the quicker fallers. c1890W. H. Casmey Ventilation 10 The fresh air..passes over the preparing machinery, carrying any little dust away with it over the cards to the fans. 1894E. Banks Camp. Curiosity 175, I was sent to the ‘preparing-table’ to sprinkle and fold some print dresses. Agnes, the head preparer, taught me.
▪ II. preˈparing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That prepares; preparatory; preliminary.
† preparing vessels (Physiol.), a rendering of L. præparantia vasa, applied to the blood-vessels which supply a gland and ‘prepare’ its secretion, as the spermatic arteries.
1615J. Stephens Ess. & Char., Worthy Poet (1857) 145 That mountebanks preparing oyle which kept his hands unscalded. 1667N. Fairfax in Phil. Trans. II. 549 The Preparing Vessels arise on the right side, out of the Cava. 1675Cotton Scoffer Scoft 35 After a few preparing rings, He makes his stoop. 1693tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Præparantia vasa, the preparing Vessels, are Veins and Arteries which go to the Testicles and Epididymes. 1864‘E. Wetherell’ Old Helmet I. i. 21 The other figures, the dark walls and ivy, the servants and the preparing collation, were only a rich mosaic of background for those two.
Hence preˈparingly adv., in the way of preparation, preparatorily.
1816L. Hunt Rimini iv. 244 ‘A noble word’, exclaimed the prince, and smote Preparingly on earth his firming foot. |