1616 G. Hakewill Answere Treat. D. Carier ii. 243 They discouered greater anger towards him in the proiecting of that bloody treason, then he toward them or their associates, after the discouery of it.

1638 David's Troubles Remembred 12 All Sauls projectings, David to keep down, Were but as steps to raise him to the Crown.

1678 J. Moxon Mech. Dyalling 4 All the Authors I have met with seem to presuppose their Reader to understand Geometry, and the projecting of the sphere already.

1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 48/2 The Wall may be defended by the projecting of the Cornice.

1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 25 My Plan of the Bridge, in projecting of which, I found myself..stored with Precedents.

1878 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) July 537 The projecting of warlike expeditions for the simple purpose of capturing prisoners for food.

1891 A. C. McLaughlin Lewis Cass iv. 99 The bold, ill-concealed interference with our affairs and the projecting of British authority into our territory.

1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Jan. 39/1 Introduction to Cine..starts off the complete beginner and takes him as far as editing and projecting.

1960 E. H. Gombrich Art & Illusion xi. 385 We prefer suggestion to representation, we have adjusted our expectations to enjoy the very act of guessing, of projecting.

1997 Daily News (Los Angeles) (Nexis) 7 Mar. (L.A. Life section) Not infrequently, the cast's emotional projecting swamps Shakespeare's imagery.

1614 C. Brooke Ghost Richard III sig. C3^v [Simples] which well prepar'd by a proiecting Braine, Giue Greatnesse strength, Ambitious hopes maintaine.

1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God viii. xxi. §4 Although man be a reasonable and projecting creature.

1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 113 Daphnis was of a more projecting wit than she.

1706 D. Defoe Jure Divino iv. 26 Delusions and Chimeras of Projecting Statesmen.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 44 Being of a projecting spirit, some of his schemes miscarried.

1843 J. Holland Psalmists of Britain II. 82 (note) Norris, according to the projecting bibliopolist, was wonderfully useful in supplying hints.

a1652 S. Foster Elliptical Horologiography (1654) v. 38 To shew the manner how this should be performed, is more proper for those Projecting wayes... Only remember that the Horizontal Diall must be projected, not by the Axis, but by the Zenith.

1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 225 Myosotis..mouth closed with projecting scales.

1792 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina (new ed.) ii. vi. 195 We coasted the green verge of the plain,..occasionally penetrating and crossing the projecting promontories.

1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. vi. 73 The low, projecting eaves formed a piazza along the front, capable of being closed up in bad weather.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 622 Houses..with high gables and projecting upper stories.

1905 Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 86 A projecting twig offered a convenient prop.

1951 E. Mittelholzer Shadows move among Them ii. ii. 172 An easy chair provided with long projecting arms for resting one's outstretched legs.

2003 Oxoniensia 67 220 The projecting walls may have formed a sub-ground structure associated with the kitchen such as a cellar or coal-store.

1687 Philos. Trans. 1686–7 (Royal Soc.) 16 279 If to this of Gravity, be joyned a projecting Force..the same parallels determine proportional Parallelograms, whose Aggregate is K Q.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Projectile Both the Projecting, and the Gravitating Force are found in the same Line of Direction.

1800 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 125 Whether the projecting force is the slightest transmission of electricity, the friction of two pebbles,..or the intense heat of the sun itself.

1872 Amer. Naturalist 6 685 Not aware before that these capsules possessed any projecting power, he gathered a quantity in order to ascertain the cause of the projecting force.

1960 W. B. Saunders Efficiency Human Movement (1966) 95 There are two forces acting on any projectile, the projecting force and gravity.

1981 Jrnl. Japanese Stud. 7 476 One would take the moon to be the projecting mechanism, not the missile.

1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 260 A cape, placed in our maps far too projectingly.

a1860 J. F. Watson Ann. Philadelphia & Pennsylvania (1870) II. 381 A small cocked hat, closely turned upon the crown upwards behind, but projectingly, and out of all proportion cocked before.

1922 E. E. Cummings Enormous Room iv. 87 [A] blond mustache—or rather mustachios projectingly important—waved beneath the prominent nostrils.