1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike xxxiv. 260 There would be a straightning of breathing, Coughs, choaking, and expectorating [L. expectorationem], of greater misery..than the Cough it self becomes.

1787 J. Brown Observ. Princ. Old Syst. Physic p. lxiii Every diminution of the mass of the other fluids, as leeching, cupping, scarifying, expectorating, sternutation, rubefaction, have been constantly employed.

1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. viii. 272 The prevalence of those two odious practices of chewing and expectorating.

1916 Boys' Life Mar. 23/1 The lips should not touch any part of the [drinking] fountain, and under no condition should the fountain be used for rinsing the mouth or for expectorating.

2009 Culpeper (Virginia) Star-Exponent (Nexis) 21 Sept. The H1N1 virus is highly contagious. It is spread by direct contact with surfaces contaminated with it, and by air droplets containing the virus from coughing, sneezing or expectorating (spitting).

1633 J. Hart Κλινικη iii. xxiii. 322 (heading) Of Expuition, or Expectoration; and the great abuse in the use of expectorating medicines, and the right use thereof.

1783 S. Chapman in Med. Communications 1 285 From the expectorating mixture, he never seemed to receive any benefit.

1870 Daily Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 8 Apr. (advt.) Warner's Cough Balsam... One and all say that it is the most healing and expectorating medicine known.

1832 G. T. Vigne Six Months in Amer. II. 244 The tobacco-chewing, guessing, calkilating, fixing, locating, expecting, and expectorating yankee.

1920 Illinois Central Mag. 9 56/1 I speak of the Expectorating Gent, who spits on all in sight.

1999 Herald (Glasgow) 2 Nov. 17 Considering the latest debate about expectorating [football] players, Eugene Quirk suggests Nietzsche's ‘Take Care Not to Spit Against The Wind’.