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▪ I. soaring, vbl. n.|ˈsɔərɪŋ|
[f. soar v.]
1. a. The action of the verb soar. Also transf.
1575Turberv. Faulconrie 198 They [sc. hawks] flee up aloft upon pleasure which with us falconers is called soring. c1630Roxb. Ball. (1888) VI. 455 Holow! my Fancie, holow!..stay at home with me! leave off thy lofty soaring. 1651Davenant Gondibert iii. v. 26 Thy love's high soaring cannot be a crime. 1722–7Boyer Dict. Royal i, Essor,..flight, or soaring up. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Literature Wks. (Bohn) II. 105 The union of Saxon precision and oriental soaring, of which Shakespeare is the perfect example. 1880Jefferies Great Est. 132 This soaring and wheeling [of jackdaws] is evidently done for recreation.
b. Aeronaut. Gliding; now esp. gliding for extended periods without significant loss of altitude. Freq. attrib.
[1864Leisure Hour 21 May 328/1 The sciences of aerostation and meteorology must progress together as wedded sciences... The effect of a mutual reaction upon each other we are unable to conjecture, further than to anticipate..more than probable extension of the properties and simple soaring power of the balloon.] 1893Amer. Engineer & Railroad Jrnl. LXVII. 396/1 It seems now reasonably possible for designers of soaring machines..to experiment with their apparatus without further search for some hidden secret. 1894O. Chanute Progr. Flying Machines p. iv, Aeroplanes for soaring flight. 1896[see gliding vbl. n. 2]. 1903W. Wright in Jrnl. Western Soc. Engineers VIII. 401 In principle Soaring is exactly equivalent to gliding, the practical difference being that in one case the wind moves with an upward trend against a motionless surface, while in the other the surface moves with a downward trend against motionless air. 1931V. W. Pagé ABC of Gliding p. vii, Soaring machines or sailplanes are usually monoplanes with a higher aspect ratio than found in the training planes. 1931P. & M. White Gliding & Soaring xviii. 145 Soaring differs from gliding in that the ship, instead of losing altitude, either pursues a level course or gains height. 1952F. Green ABC of Gliding 90 Ridge soaring depends basically on the wind. 1958D. Piggott Gliding xviii. 118 Many glider pilots become anxious to start cross-country flying as soon as they have made one or two soaring flights. 1974Sci. Amer. Aug. 14/2 His memberships..reflect several of his outside interests, which he lists as ‘camping, canoeing, gliding and soaring and gardening’. 1979Yale Alumni Mag. Apr. (Suppl.) cn 20/1 He is fully recovered..and still believes that soaring is a great sport.
2. An instance of this. Also fig. and transf.
1611Cotgr., Essort,..a soaring, mounting,..high-rising. 1648Hexham ii, Een Opstijginge, an Ascention, a Mounting, or a Soaring up. 1762D. Webb Beauties Poetry 14 The soarings and stoops of the Eagle. 1786Parr Educ. 2 (Todd), Proverbs were ambitiously seized by the lyric and by the epic muse in..their sublimest soarings. 1805Wordsw. Waggoner iv. 80 As if the warbler lost in light Reproved his soarings of the night. 1890Clark Russell Ocean Tragedy I. vi. 127 These irrational soarings of spirits.
▪ II. soaring, ppl. a.|ˈsɔərɪŋ|
[f. soar v.]
1. fig. Rising to a great height, high pitch, etc.; egregious; ambitious, aspiring; sublime.
(a)1607Shakes. Cor. ii. i. 270 When his soaring Insolence Shall teach the People. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xiii. (1848) 248 To make a Rise to their soaring flight of a Tower, whose Top should reach unto Heaven. 1687tr. Sallust (1692) 33 Of soaring and egregious parts. 1814Scott Wav. lix, The same soaring and ardent spirit, for whom the whole earth seemed too narrow. 1848W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc's Hist. Ten Y. I. 552 A bold and soaring mind. 1879Stanley Manzoni's Hymn for Whitsunday, The New World's soaring wants. 1889Spectator 9 Nov. 633/1 This soaring insolence of these Christian young men.
(b)1695J. Edwards Perfect. H. Script. 418 This Evangelist..is more sublime and soaring than the rest. 1847Emerson Repres. Men, Montaigne Wks. (Bohn) I. 351 In the heart of each maiden,..in the soul of the soaring saint, this chasm is found.
2. Rising high by means of actual flight; flying high in the air. Also fig. and Her.
This sense occurs earlier in the comb. high-soaring.
1683Tryon Way to Health xix. (1697) 415 The soaring Wing of a Devout Meditation. 1828[see soarant]. 1868Cussans Her. (1893) 95 Soaring, or Volant: Flying. 1871G. J. Whyte-Melville Sarchedon I. 4 Those specks on the upper sky widened into huge soaring vultures. 1893Westm. Gaz. 15 Sept. 7/2 The wing-area of soaring birds varies from one to above two square feet per pound of weight.
transf.1891Science-Gossip XXVII. 90 In reference to the soaring flight of birds.
3. Of imposing altitude; lofty, towering.
1687tr. Sallust (1692) 71 They who being arriv'd to large Command, live in the soaring height of Greatness. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. lxxiii, I have seen the soaring Jungfrau rear Her never-trodden snow.
b. Arch. Rising lightly or gracefully to a considerable height; characterized by loftiness and gracefulness.
1849Ruskin Sev. Lamps iii. §xxiv. 92 The soaring arches and kingly crowning of the gates of Abbeville. 1849Freeman Archit. 6 The solemn massiveness of the Romanesque Cathedral, the soaring majesty of its Gothic successor. 1884Cent. Mag. Mar. 682/1 For them no soaring nave and dimly lighted clearstory.
Hence ˈsoaringly adv.
1817Byron Manfred i. i. 95 Their summits to heaven Shoot soaringly forth. 1844Blackw. Mag. LV. 102 How gallantly the water-jets curve soaringly! |