1448 Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Arms) 483 Among righte welle lettred men..he hathe busy discussyng of questions.

?1553–77 Life Fisher (Harl. 6382) (1921) 139 To have referred the hearing and discussing of his crime to his metropolitan.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Liquidation,..a discussing, or examination.

1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. ii. xxvii. 117 Heirs..have the benefit of an order of discussing.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 192 To commit the Discussing of Causes privately to certain Persons learn'd in the Laws.

1772 Crit. Rev. Aug. 138 In respect to the discussing of bubos,..the expedient of bringing those inguinal tumors to suppuration, is by much the safest..method of cure.

1804 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) II. 1116 To Liverpool, to London, to Drinkings & Discussings.

1846 Mechanics' Mag. 23 May 399/2 Hypothetical assumptions and fishing interrogatories, the discussing and answering of which might by remote possibility bring out something.

1898 A. B. Rathborne Camping & Tramping Malaya ii. 24 The discussing of their neighbours and the latest scandal seems to form the chief subject of their conversation.

1922 E. Chipp Doubting Castle xiv. 132 Tom also was of that forbidden sex for the discussing of matters of doubtful propriety.

1951 J. C. Flügel Hundred Years Psychol. (ed. 2) viii. 280 The mere bringing back and discussing of memories.

2009 D. Worgul Thin Blue Smoke (2010) 44 Whitey was doing most of the discussing.

1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 292 Therfore those things that must driue out the poysone, ought to be..most hot and discussing or expelling.

1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke iii. xxvi. 116 Frictions are most conuenient for this, which haue a discussing vertue.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 564 There is such a dispersing and discussing nature in wine, that it dissolueth all..harde thinges in the bodies of beasts.

1632 tr. G. Bruele Praxis Medicinæ 276 These discussing medicines shalbe vsed.

1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 279 Hot discussing Unctions.

1786 J. Bentick Spelling & Explanatory Dict. Discutient, a repelling or discussing medicine.

1574 Certaine Select Prayers sig. Ciiij Thou knowest right well whether the roote that sendeth forth faire leaues abroad, be sweete or bitter: yea thou searchest narrowly euen the very pith of the rootes within, as a iudge: and by the discussing light of thy truth thou considerest, numbrest, vewest, and perusest not onely the intent, but also the very innermost pith of ye roote of it.

1604 G. Powel Consideration Papists Reasons for Toleration of Poperie 60 A religion that hath beene..witnessed..by the discussing censure and approbation of general Counsells.

1772 J. Jekyll Let. 7 Jan. in W. Bolts App. Considerations India Affairs (1775) II. 271 The then discussing point was not conformable to the rules of law.

1889 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 177 It is a fact, that both in England and America the marriageable men of the middle and upper classes are not to the fore, and that accordingly in these classes—the discussing, thinking, agitating classes—an undue proportion of women remains unmarried.

1894 K. P. Wormeley tr. H. de Balzac Comédie Humaine (1896) i. x. 72 A discussing and speechifying love, I think intolerable.

1920 M. Fleury Mem. Empress Eugenie I. i. 5 The Empress' mother recognized and admitted the merits of the ideas advocated by the French doctrinaries and liberals who then shared with the ‘discussing gentry’ the favors of Louis Philippe's reign.

1978 J. J. Waardenburg Refl. Study Relig. x. 167 Our analysis should be directed toward disclosing the various basic views and perspectives of the discussing parties.

2008 D. Baldacci Whole Truth lxxv. 418 Shaw didn't appear to be in a discussing mood.