c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 522 (MED) God purueied manye dyuerse religiouns to be in the chirche, for that bi so greet a dyuersite..of outward habit and of inward wering, and of diet and of waking and of officiyng and of sitis, or of placing, and of bilding, and of othere suche manie, the mo of the peple schulde be..stirid therbi into religioun.

c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 32 (MED) Þe placyng of fantasie next aftir ymagynacioun is raþir to be holden fro trewe philosophie þan þat he schulde be placid aftir alle þe oþire iiij inward wittis.

1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Cor. xii. f. xxxiiii The diuers placyng and vse [of the members]..apertayneth to the welth of the whole body.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xix. 21 b Hauing wel considered the placing of the campe.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. v. 65 Shee being downe, I haue the placing of the Brittish Crowne. View more context for this quotation

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. vi. §8 The placing of the motto..upon the High Priests fore-head.

1723 E. Chambers tr. S. Le Clerc Treat. Archit. I. 116 The commodius and agreeable placing of Statues.

1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. xvi. 277 With regard to the placing of the obligations which are the result of the contract, it is evident that they must rest either solely on one side or mutually on both.

1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish xx. 199 More than all my absences..from the time of my placing.

1898 C. F. Binns Story of Potter iv. ii. 206 The art of putting the ware ready for burning is called ‘placing’, and upon the skill of the placer much of the success of the oven depends.

1920 J. Taft in Proc. Nat. Conf. Social Work 63 The placing and replacing of a problematic child..is also costly.

1968 Economist 13 Apr. 53 The trouble is that this success with conventional ‘placing’ has inhibited new ideas. The Ministry of Labour finds people new jobs: it does not encourage the people to add to their skills.

1991 Apollo Mar. 213/3 Landscape apart, all alterations and pentimenti in the figures and in their placing within the group were by Bellini.

1894 Daily News 26 July 3/3 He won the race so easily that little notice need be taken of the placings of the remainder of the field.

1971 I. Butykai tr. I. Lukovich Electr. Foil Fencing i. 23 Latin domination of the sport was unbroken with French or Italian competitors winning all the major international contests, world championships and Olympic tournaments. They took most of the placings, too.

1990 Champion (Ottawa, Ont.) Apr. 13/2 In the next four World Cup downhills, he will score three top ten placings in a row, and place thirteenth in the fourth one.

1922 Polit. Sci. Q. 37 388 Such investment will follow much the same lines as those taken by the foreign placings of other highly developed countries.

1930 Economist 1 Nov. 825/1 There have, in addition, been various private ‘placings’ of new capital, including £2,000,000 5 per cent debentures of the underground.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. III. 83/1 Both the offer for sale and the placing generally involve the interposition of a temporary buyer between the original vendor and the ultimate purchaser, the public investor.

1973 Scotsman 13 Feb. 3/4 A placing is advertised today of five million shares in Bishopsgate Platinum.

1995 Times 9 June 22/4 The group will raise £18.7 million through a placing with £10 million of new money for the company and the balance for existing shareholders.

1875 Guide Royal Porcelain Wks. 15 The manufactured objects being now ready for baking are taken to the placing house of the biscuit oven.

1951 Times 11 Jan. 7/6 The Ministry of Labour's disablement resettlement officer and a blind persons placing officer.

1996 People Managem. (Nexis) 27 June 36 Apex's clients..were defined as ‘white collar’ on the basis of the placing officers' view that they were seeking white-collar employment.

1937 Times Apr. 24 18/1 The placing price was about 38s., but owing to the popularity of the shares..they rapidly rose several shillings.

1992 Investors Chron. 23 Oct. 31/2 Ink jet printer maker and designer Linx Printing Technologies has set its placing price at 130p—valuing the company at £18.8m.

1921 Times 17 May 13/1 In the sixth period Mr. Buckmaster came through with a great run and a beautiful placing shot from which the Duke of Penaranda scored with a very pretty nearside back hander.

1925 Country Life 15 Aug. 244/2 The push shots or placing shots... You can steer and guide these strokes with tolerable accuracy, hence their name of placing strokes... If the ball be pitched well up, simply lean out towards it..and..play a crouching push stroke at it, and it will travel between mid-on and square-leg.

1946 Times 4 Sept. 8/3 In the second set..she regained control over her strokes, scoring with many fine placing shots, winning the last four games and the set.

2003 United News of Bangladesh (Nexis) 5 Nov. Bulul confirmed Russel KC's semifinal berth to score the remaining goal with a spectacular placing shot.

1907 Times 13 July 13/2 Although not marked by his usual mastery, and containing fewer good placing strokes on the leg side than he makes as a rule, it was nevertheless the best innings of the day.

1950 Times 1 Aug. 7/1 The left-handed Lock contrived in a fair measure to keep Compton quiet, but the tickle to leg and that lovely placing stroke wide of cover point could not be subdued.

1948 F. R. Leavis Great Trad. iii. 146 In Roderick Hudson..he has already achieved a maturely poised ‘placing’ irony in the treatment of certain characteristics of American life.

1993 Horse & Rider Dec. 16/2 The final day of the course begins as all Stephen's jumping sessions do, with a warming up exercise over a placing pole in front of a small crossed poles jump.