1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana i. v. 46 For the familiarizing of this Nicety, let us have recourse once again to our so frequently mentioned example of a heap of Corne.

1806 A. Aikin Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 1805 4 iii. 296/2 He endeavoured the familiarizing of those leading facts which were best adapted to prepare the statesman.

1898 Good Words Jan. 791/1 One of the results..will be such a familiarising of northern words and phrases that even southern authors may be able to retrieve some of the blunders of their predecessors.

1902 Pop. Sci. Monthly Aug. 347 Next comes the familiarizing with surroundings.

2009 S. Kulperger in C. Sugars & G. Turcotte Unsettled Remains v. 118 The familiarizing of violence is met with the corresponding defamiliarizing of domestic objects and spaces.

1809 J. Bristed Hints on National Bankruptcy Brit. iii. vi. 432 The familiarizing experience of the past.

1888 H. James in Cent. Mag. Dec. 236/1 The hall of the country-house and the farms of closer friendliness, the prolonged talks, the familiarizing walks, which London excludes.

1901 Westm. Rev. Mar. 237 She had an inspired genius for the familiarising virtues; her sympathy and sanity made us feel at home even in an age of revolutions.

1991 P. Slater Dream Deferred ii. xii. 149 The gains won by blacks, women, and other groups in recent decades..have been accelerated in a major way by the familiarizing effect of television.

1890 J. H. Stirling Gifford Lect. x. 179 Jehovah, whom German and French Writers have taken of late, degradingly and I suppose familiarisingly, to call Jahve.