c1556 B. Greene Let. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 1462/1 This greate chere was often powthred with vnsauery sawces of examinations, exhortacions, posings, and disputacions.

1615 J. Brinsley (title) The posing of the parts. Or, a most plaine and easie way of examining the accidence and grammar, by questions and answeres.

1841 G. Peacock Observations Statutes Univ. Cambr. App. A. p. xiii (note) The process of examination was called apposing or posing.

1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1855) II. i. 1 The posing of figures and drapery.

1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere II. ii. xviii. 107 Oh, to fall at her feet, and ask her pardon before parting for ever! But no—no more posing; no more dramatizing.

1890 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 411 The posing chair should be a low-backed chair fastened to a platform..on castors. This enables the operator to move the sitter to any position, without the trouble of getting up.

1922 Times 24 June 17/2 This discussion, as Lord Gladstone found, inevitably leads to the posing of questions.

1958 K. Tyler in R. M. Cooper Two Ends of Log 254 It is not the posing of questions by the instructor to which students are expected to respond with answers gleaned from textbook or lecture.

1977 Gay News 24 Mar. 23/3 A loner tilts the Captain Fantastic pinball machine. Some posing but not much.

1991 Advocate 15 Jan. 73/3 Madonna is slated to provide the voice for a flirtatious tart, Mary Elizabeth, whose angelic posings prove quite the match for bad boy Bart.

1967 J. Love Gay Whore in M. Bronski Pulp Friction (2003) iv. 249 Jack felt an excited awareness of the extraordinary and entirely perfect bodies, which were stripped completely naked except for tiny posing pouches that left little to the imagination.

1992 Time Out 22 Apr. 115/2 ‘Chippendales’..are a bunch of chorus boys who have reversed the sex-roles to perform a song, dance, bump 'n' grind strip routine (down to their luridly tacky posing pouches) for the all-female audience.

2002 Createonline Nov. 16 Kinniki is a ‘risqué’ underwear brand that sells posing pouches for men.

1666 W. Spurstowe Spiritual Chymist (1668) 174 Another dark and posing thought did arise.

1747 T. Stackhouse New & Pract. Expos. Apostles Creed i. §2 19 Here the posing Questions, which Zophar puts to Job, meet, and accost us.

1835 Times 28 Mar. 5/2 Sir Robert Peel addressed a posing question to the Opposition leader.

1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks I. xi. 233 Mr. Jobbles had for many years been examining undergraduates for little goes, and great goes, and had passed his life in putting posing questions, in detecting ignorance by vivâ voce scrutiny, and eliciting learning by printed papers.

1847 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Posingly, puzzlingly.

1888 J. Pennell & E. R. Pennell Sent. Journey 149 Barbizon, with its picture galleries and posing peasants.

1992 Atlantic May 102/2 There were stiff brown photographs of his father's college football team, his father crouching at right tackle in a paddingless helmet, and of a stageful of posing young people.

2004 Amer. Artist (Nexis) 1 June Packed with photos of posing models, diagrams, and drawings, it offers surprisingly comprehensive instruction for the size of the book.