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▪ I. contracting, vbl. n.|kənˈtræktɪŋ|
[f. contract v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb contract (in various senses).
1585Abp. Sandys Serm. (1841) 50 God cannot be better served, than if by law ye restrain this unlawful contracting. 1637Heywood Anna & Ph. Wks. 1874 VI. 316 Many virgins at their contractings rather consent then speake. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. lxxvi. 311 The contracting of a new league with the great King of Portugal. 1668Hale Pref. Rolle's Abridgm. 5 The contracting of the Laws into a narrower compass and method. 1692Ray Dissol. World 43 The contracting of the Age of the Postdiluvians.
b. attrib. Relating to a contract or agreement.
1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. iii. xv. 37 The present miraculous graces of the holy Spirit were an earnest and in the nature of a contracting peny.
▪ II. conˈtracting, pple. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. Entering into a contract or mutual agreement.
1720Lond. Gaz. No. 5822/2 The Contracting Powers in the said Treaty. 1874Green Short Hist. iv. §3. 180 In the event of any war between the two contracting parties.
2. That shortens, narrows, etc. (trans. and intr.).
1765Blackstone Comm. I. 158 It is this ascending and contracting proportion that adds stability to any government. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 410 The water is accumulated by the opposition of contracting banks. 1877tr. Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. XV. 482 Our present experience of genuine contracting kidney. |