OE Laws of Edgar (Nero A.i) iii. 2. §1. 200 Gyf þæt riht to hefig sy, sece siþþan ða lihtinge to þam cynge.

OE Handbk. for Use of Confessor (Corpus Cambr. 201) in Anglia (1965) 83 32 Þonne him bið ealne dæg geseald his sinna lihtinge.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 27066 Þat strength es o gret ligthing, Quen man has casten his birthing O sin.

1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) v. iii. sig. pp.iii ^v Nor truste not for euer to haue socours ne lyghtynge.

?a1525 (?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 791 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 82 Þou haste sent me lyghtyng þat late was lame.

a1628 J. Carmichaell Coll. Prov. in Scots (1957) No. 394 Changeing of warks is lichting of harts.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 13822 Þe aungels liȝtyng þere bood I.

a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) l. 6373 Mirabel..Made hir ladie forto light. Of that lighting Jewel was woo.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ii. l. 399 Wallace with that at his lychtyn him drew.

1506 W. Makefyrr in Paston Lett. (1904) VI. 174 At the lyghtyng the Kyng of Castylle was of hys hors a good space or owr Kyng was a lyght.

1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xxx. 30 The Lord shall..shew the lighting downe of his arme. View more context for this quotation

1618 W. Lawson New Orchard & Garden vii. 22 To auoide the lighting of Crowes, Pyes, &c. vpon your grafts.

1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. ii. sig. Aa4^v (heading) Upon the Mounting, Singing, and Lighting of Larks.

1877 Quiver 12 550/1 It [sc. a stone] may need many a stroke, and many a blow, and the lighting down of a heavy hand.

OE Benedictine Office (Junius) (1957) 82 Be sunnon upgange, we sculon God..biddan þæt he þurh his mildheortnesse mid soðre sunnon lihtincge ure heortan alihte.

c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xxvi. 1 (MED) Our Lord, which ich shal douten, is my liȝtyng and my helpe.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms xliii. 4 Ne forsothe in ther swerd thei weldeden the erthe; and their arm shal not sauen hem. But thi riȝthond, and thin arm, and the liȝting [a1425 L.V. liȝtnyng; L. illuminatio] of thi chere.

c1400 Bk. to Mother (Bodl.) 193 (MED) Þe sterre bitokeneþ liȝtinge of feiþ þat þe Holi Gost putteþ in a mannes soule.

c1400 Prose Versions New Test.: 2 Tim. (Selwyn) (1904) i. 10 His [sc. God's] owne purpos & his grace..now it is y-schewed þoroȝ þe lyȝtynge of Iesu Crist.

c1450 (a1400) Orologium Sapientiæ in Anglia (1888) 10 373 (MED) Alle þe goostly liȝteyngis and goodly graces þat come fro þat sacramente to my dome, I haue be lefte so voyde.

1575 W. Patten Cal. Script. f. 109 Laudans Deum. Claritas. Illuminatio Dei: Praysing God. Brightnes or lighting of God.

lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1117 Ðises geares eac..wurdon ormætlica wædera mid þunre & lihtinge & reine & hagole.

c1300 St. Michael (Harl.) in T. Wright Pop. Treat. Sci. (1841) 135 The liȝting, That schut abrod into al the wordle.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 7763 Tempestes þer come Þondringe & liȝtinge ek.

c1400 15 Tokens in F. J. Furnivall Adam Davy's 5 Dreams (1878) 93 Oure lord schal come & smyte adoun, as liȝttyng doþ to ground.

1618 W. P. tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. IV. 622 Hee causeth them to stand in feare not onely of men, of tempests, of thunders and of lightings, but he terrifieth them also by dreames.

1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. (at cited word) There was a good deal of lighting last night.

1971 H. Orton & P. M. Tilling Surv. Eng. Dial. III. iii. 1015 Q[uestion]. Before we hear the thunder, we see.., [Essex, Sussex] lighting.

c1300 ( Laws: Instituta Cnuti (Harl. 746) i. xii. 295 Lichtingescot [lOE Rochester Scotum ad luminaria, quod Angli uocant lihtgescot].

1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 35 Þe sexteyn..ssal han, for lythynge of the lythe, viij.d.

1499–1500 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 51 Paid..for lightyng of the Rode light.

1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 124 The lighting of one Candle by another.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 223 At the first lighting of the beacons.

2006 J. Robertson Test. Gideon Mack (2007) x. 77 I was a Boy Scout at this time, and..every Wednesday evening I was sent out of the manse for a couple of hours..to be tested on my proficiency in map-reading, knot-tying and the lighting of fires.

1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. xix. 300 The next operation is that of lighting or annealing, in order that the steel may be so softened as to admit of being cut with sufficient ease by means of a chisel, when the teeth are to be raised.

1882 New Monthly Sept. 733 From the Smithy the steel goes to the ‘lighting’ furnace to be ‘annealed’ or made soft enough to be ground and cut.

1854 G. F. Waagen Treasures Art Great Brit. I. xi. 386 His [sc. C. Stanfield's] points of view are very happily chosen; the drawing good, the lighting powerful, the colouring of great power and freshness, the skies of exceeding clearness.

1869 Athenæum 18 Dec. 826 As a study in colour and lighting the work is a model.

2010 T. Kidd Otherworlds 92/1 Space paintings..present a number of lighting and compositional problems.

1815 Ann. Philos. 6 16 When the stock of gas is prepared we may depend as much on its lighting power as we depend on the light of a certain number of candles.

1827 Atlas 30 Sept. 613/3 A great number of housekeepers had been summoned before the Magistrates for non-payment of paving and lighting rates.

1926 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 128 22/2 In the building of the plant 150 carloads of lumber were used; also..six miles of underground conduit and twenty miles of lighting wire.

2012 New Scientist 4 Aug. 42/1 They were surprised to find that no matter how they changed the lighting conditions, workers always became more productive than usual.

1915 Electr. Rev. 21 Aug. 333/2 The frame being supported in such a manner as to be drawn back and forward by hand as ordered by the lighting director.

1972 I. Hamilton Thrill Machine vii. 30 For difficult interiors he should have had a lighting man, for interviews he should have had an audio man as well.

1988 S. Gray How's that for telling 'em, Fat Lady? ii. 80 We'd get through a scene and then have to stop for something like an hour while scene changes and lighting cues were worked out.

2010 Stage Jan. 40/2 Full services, ranging from lighting design and pre-production to rental, get-in, operation and get-out.

1915 Electr. Rev. 21 Aug. 333/1 At the back of the grandstand was erected a lighting bridge from which the pageant lighting was directed.

1928 C. H. Ridge Stage Lighting vii. 111 The roof and lighting bridge are all built in reinforced concrete.

1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage iv. 43 Above the proscenium arch is the lighting bridge, which will accommodate as many as ten electricians with ‘spotting lanterns’.

1967 Punch 16 Aug. 242/3 For Figaro and Verdi's Macbeth at the first [Edinburgh] festival twenty-one years ago, John Christie had to bring in a lighting bridge and sixty floods and perches from Glyndebourne.

2007 Times 12 Nov. 55/1 An overhead lighting bridge runs the length of the gallery.

1947 N.Y. Times 15 June ii. x5/4 Ronnie himself has worked in the studios for close on twenty years, as call-boy, number boy, still camera man, property man, assistant camera man, lighting camera man, with a short spell off the floor to run his father's Bond Street business.

1966 Listener 15 Dec. 889/3 The lighting cameraman can earn £1,000 a week on a major picture.

2002 Furrow 53 622 Unheralded contributors like the editor and the lighting cameraman play absolutely central roles in the shaping of what becomes the final film.

1867 Glasgow Herald 10 Dec. 1/3 (advt.) Grand Comic Pantomime!.. The peculiar Lighting Effects by Mr. W. Barbour.

1917 Fine Arts Jrnl. 35 19/1 With its superb lighting effect, this portrayal of a room overlooking a wharf is an example of how love and hate can be impregnated into a picture.

1957 V. J. Kehoe Technique Film & Television Make-up i. 17 In motion pictures,..the lighting effect can be designed to be complementary to the make-up.

1998 Art Educ. 51 iv. 31/2 Using various media such as chalk, oil pastel, markers, shiny fabric, and foil papers, experiment with lighting effects.

2011 Guardian (Nexis) 30 June (Final ed.) 27 He doesn't take your focus away from the story with flashy camera moves or lighting effects.

1885 North-eastern Daily Gaz. (Middlesbrough) 28 Dec. A very important invention..will, as is said by some lighting engineers, completely revolutionise the present system of gas lighting.

1916 Motion Picture News 15 Apr. 2260/2 The best scenic artists and lighting engineers..are now contributing their original ideas to perfect the picture sets.

1959 Occup. Outlook Handbk. (U.S. Dept. Labor) 655/2 (caption) Lighting engineer setting up lighting control connections on switchboard of highly elaborate color television lighting system.

1994 Guardian 17 Dec. (Careers section) 2/4 As Manchester City Council's principal lighting engineer, he deals with street lighting maintenance and requests throughout the year.

2003 J. Shepherd et al. Continuum Encycl. Pop. Music of World II. 663/1 During performances, the lighting engineer will vary the intensity..or color of the lighting.

1876 Ann. Rep. Postmaster-General (U.S. Post-Office Dept.) 166 A small appropriation of $500 for the purpose of testing fully, different lamps and oil..made with a view to furnishing the lighting fixtures and material for all postal cars.

1927 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 42 (caption) Two double windows, a lighting fixture, and an electric fan provide an ample amount of light, air, and ventilation.

2018 Toronto Star (Nexis) 9 June h4 Don't..attempt to remove items such as lighting fixtures or other items that were included in the Agreement of Purchase and Sale.

1896 Electric Power 9 409 The scenic artist does his small share as far as the background is concerned, the poseur arranges his figures, but their efforts are nil until the lighting plot has been successfully worked.

1931 C. S. Parsons Amateur Stage Managem. & Production ii. 18 Lighting plots should always be well rehearsed.

1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage iv. 44 The lighting-plot shows the position of every lamp, the colour of the medium, and the varying intensity of the light required.

2009 Irish Univ. Rev. 39 48 A dense and carefully scripted lighting plot, allowed Edwards to make the interfusion of coloured light and shadow an integral part of the play.

1920 Fur News & Outdoor World Dec. 36/1 Such a lighting rig should be in every trapper's pack-sack.

1948 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 31 Dec. 18/3 One enterprising amateur even worked out a fluorescent lighting rig using two second hand bed lamps he acquired for a dollar at an auction.

1973 Drama Rev. 17 ii. 76 Covering this area from above was the full Old Vic lighting rig, including effects such as a light curtain, sodium, mercury and CSI specials, and a sound-activated lighting device known as a polychromatron.

2008 M. Blake Comfortably Numb iii. 60 While the Jenners' lighting rig might seem hopelessly primitive by today's standards, at the time it gave Pink Floyd a distinct visual edge over their competitors.

1895 U.S. Patent 540,073 1/2 D represents the conducting or neck portion of a socket, analogous in all respects to well known forms of incandescent lighting sockets.]

1902 Ann. Otol., Rhinol., & Laryngol. 11 32 It [sc. the electric heater] takes the current from the 110-volt lighting circuit through an ordinary lighting-socket and plug.

2017 States News Service (Nexis) 1 Nov. The average U.S. household has around 40 lighting sockets and more than 2 billion sockets nationwide still contain inefficient bulbs.

1881 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 17 Apr. 17/2 London will soon abandon 40-foot lamp posts and build electric lighting towers hundreds of feet high.

1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage iv. 43 In the wings stand a number of lighting towers twelve feet high, each capable of carrying a dozen 1000-watt flood lamps.

2014 Open (India) (Nexis) 18 Apr. One of the lighting towers, a vast assemblage of metal scaffolding rising 30-feet up from the crowd at its densest place, had been overloaded with men and boys clambering up for a view of the mega-star.

1898 Glasgow Herald 2 July 4/7 Applications for a further 15,000 eight-candle-power lamps had been received. The price..was 6d per lighting unit.

1933 Trans. Illuminating Engin. Soc. (U.S.) 28 274 A luminaire is a complete lighting unit consisting of a light source, together with its direct appurtenances, such as globe, reflector, refractor, housing, [etc.].

2006 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 8 Oct. 7 Individual lighting units..should all be plugged into a switched lighting circuit.