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1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin x. 590 To meete with these pretences affore they burst out into action..there was no other helpe then the remedie of peace.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xii. 203 Courageously themselues they into action put.

1673 Bp. S. Parker Reproof Rehearsal Transprosed 393 These..are the Materials and common Principles of all Rebellion, but they never or very rarely come into action.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 244 The impatience natural to the pleasure soon drove us into action.

1793 W. Godwin Enq. Polit. Justice iv. viii. 351 A sensation of pain was the initiative, and put my intellectual powers into action.

1826 E. Irving Babylon II. viii. 312 The Church hath been set into action to prepare the seed-bed of the truth over the earth.

1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea II. 249 Now at length, and after long expectance, they indeed would go into action.

1907 Practitioner Nov. 692 The augmentor nerve is..called into action.

2002 M. Greenhough in Writing Wrongs 79 The commercial grapevine duly sprang into action, showering the newest member of the community with voluminous and combustible offers and advice.