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lOE Canterbury Psalter i. 3 Quod fructum suum dabit in tempore suo et folium eius non decidet : þet his wæstm uel blæd sceal giuan on his timan & his læf ne sceal tofallan.]

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1128 Men seið ðe treen..Waxen in time and brimen.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms ciii. 27 Alle thingus of thee abijden, that thou ȝiue to them mete in tyme [L. in tempore].

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. ix. l. 184 Whan ȝe haue wyued, bewar and worcheth in tyme; Nouȝt as Adam & Eue whan caym was engendred.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 1240 (MED) For in differryng is ofte gret damage, To werke in tyme is double avauntage.

c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 43 Haunte thou the temple and wurschip in tyme The goddes of heuene.

1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Ev I that in time, and out of time Karoust it without measure.

1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. L2^v The worde of God is to be preached night and day, in time, and out of time, in season, and out of season.

1696 L. Meriton Pecuniæ obediunt Omnia xxix. 21 Things done in time or out of time all's one, Or if not done at all, she [sc. money] can Attone.

OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.i) anno 1011 Ealle þas ungesælða us gelumpon þuruh unrædas þæt man nolde him a timan gafol beodon oþþe wið gefeohtan.]

a1450 Late Middle Eng. Treat. on Horses (1978) 101 (MED) But þat hors be holpe in tyme, þat mangew wol turne in-to a foule schabbe.

?1463 R. Cutler in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 259 For cause ȝe were so laches and cam not in tyme þe mater ȝede a-mys.

1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. x. f. 221^v Perdicas, whose ambicious mynde desirous of innouation, was (he sayde) to be preuented in time.

1572 in J. G. Dalyell Scotish Poems 16th Cent. (1801) II. 247 The prouerb is, of palice, kirk, and brig, Better in tyme to beit, nor efter to big.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iii. 5 Come in time, haue Napkins enow about you. View more context for this quotation

1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 397 And just in time thou com'st to have a view Of his great power; for now View more context for this quotation

1738 tr. G. Plantavit de la Pause Life James Fitz-James, Duke of Berwick 78 Knowing..that he would still be in time for the campaign in Flanders, if Marshal Luxembourg..should make any enterprize this year.

1765 W. Gordon Universal Accountant II. 4 Whoever buys goods on time..must force a sale abroad, that he may have returns in time to answer it.

1787 A. Young Jrnl. 28 June in Trav. France (1792) i. 25 We return in time to dress for dinner, at half after twelve or one.

1834 Picture of Liverpool 73 Letters put into any of the Receiving Houses before twelve o'clock will be in time for the early mails.

1886 Science 7 May 422/2 If we can vaccinate in time, we may abort an attack of small-pox which would otherwise occur.

1912 Eng. Hist. Rev. Jan. 44 Mansel soon returned..in time to assume the custody of the seal in September 1238.

1986 R. B. Morrison & C. R. Wilson Native Peoples vi. 113 They headed back north in time for caribou hunting season.

2002 M. Thebo Saint who loved Me ix. 126 Peter starts to spit and catches himself in time.

a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 104 (MED) Consolacion shal come to þe in tyme [L. in tempore suo].

?1553–77 Life Fisher (Harl. 6382) (1921) 41 Lest some cavillacion might in time arise about this matter.

1594 Willobie his Auisa xlvii. f. 43 I thinke in tyme she may be wonne.

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist i. iii. sig. C3^v This fellow, Captayne, Will come, in time, to be a great Distiller. View more context for this quotation

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. xxiii. 37 Potent men..would certainly in time work their revenge.

1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera ii. iv. 23 Strong waters will in time ruin your Constitution.

1786 R. Cumberland Observer II. xxxix. 96 [They] were so constantly employed in repeating Homer's poems preferably to all others, that in time they were universally called Homerists.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 85 The inner turnkey's office to begin wi', and the captainship in time.

1859 Harper's Mag. Feb. 332/2 Rosario..will probably in time become the great emporium of the eleven provinces west of the Prana.

1885 W. S. Gilbert Mikado ii. 43 He would have loved me in time. I am an acquired taste.

1927 B. Russell Outl. Philos. iii. 44 Perhaps in time the State will perform these experiments with the children of political prisoners.

1989 G. Daly Pre-Raphaelites in Love vi. 301 A wise old satyr..assures her that she will in time forget her pain.

2004 Sugar Nov. 120/2 Although they [sc. stretch marks] never completely disappear, they will fade in time.

a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI Serm. (1629) 122 That Religion is Christian Religion: None sings this Hymne in time, in true note, but it; all other are out.

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. v. 199 Their great Teachers of the City Sweare, that in time they'l sing the dity.

1732 H. Baker & J. Miller tr. Molière Conceited Ladies xii. 77 in Sel. Comedies III Play in time, Fidlers, in time.—O what ignorant Wretches! there's no dancing with 'em.

1735 K. Tomlinson Art of Dancing xii. 137 It matters not whether it breaks off upon the End of the first Strain of the Tune, the second, or in the Middle of either of them, provided it be in Time to the Music.

1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. iii. 45 Balancing his expanded palms, he gently flourished them in time to the music.

1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. viii. 55 [He] commenced singing in time with the taps of the drum.

1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona i. 4 A..brisk tramp of feet in time and clash of steel.

1947 ‘A. P. Gaskell’ Big Game 95 Their hands fluttered delicately, moving easily and clapping exactly in time.

1976 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 15 Oct. 17/4 I saw him patting his hand on his knee in time to the music along with everyone else.

2000 Wasafiri Autumn 29/1 Arm over arm they sang in time with the song of the trawlermen of Holleme Bay.

1844 C. Bailey Reclaimed Student i. 4 David Marston, what in time are you about? Why do n't you answer me?

1849 J. T. Fields Let. 28 Feb. in R. W. Griswold Passages from Corr. (1898) 250 Why in Time don't you come our way and see the boys?

1938 Boys' Life Feb. 48/1 How in time did you know it was Jalmer an' not Treat?

a1969 ‘D. Langley’ Swamp Angel (1982) xviii. 161 Why in time don't you put some wood on that there fire?