pursuancen.

1601 F. Bacon Declar. Pract. & Treasons Earl of Essex sig. H2 The Rebellion following in the citie, was not a desisting from the other plot, but an inducement and pursuance of it: their meaning being plaine on all parts, that, after they had gotten the aide of the citie, they would haue gone and possessed the Court.

1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. Ep. Ded. 2 It is..nothing else, but a pursuance of, and a superstruction upon that blessed Doctrine.

1686 W. Clagett Paraphr. 6th Chapter St. John 34 His pursuance of the same Expression, still shews that he speaks of the same thing; viz. believing his death to be a Sacrifice, &c.

1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 56. 363 I write to you in pursuance of my Letter which you printed on the Ninth.

1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty 7 A great assistance to us in the pursuance of our present enquiry.

1900 Publ. Amer. Econ. Assoc. 1 261 In further pursuance of the matter, the House of Commons on the second of May [1749] addressed his Majesty.

1936 Times 6 Jan. 10/1 They have done very much to clarify the situation and to form an instructed public opinion upon it. In pursuance of this debate I would ask to make the following suggestions.

1971 T. L. Connelly Autumn of Glory iv. 89 He urged Bragg to forget the entire matter since he had already been sustained by the government and any pursuance of the matter would only open old wounds.

a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 40 Any accessory before the fact is subiect to all the contingencies pregnant of the fact if they bee pursuances of the same fact.

1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions x. 84 The love of both which is then onely Regular, when it is..Humble in the manner of pursuance, without swelling and curiositie.

1649 J. Milton Tenure of Kings 38 In the persuance of fame and..dominion.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Yorks. 204 He..studied twenty years together in pursuance of the Philosophers stone.

1710 J. Norris Treat. Christian Prudence viii. 391 As diligent in prosecuting our true and great End, as they are in the pursuance of their false and little ones.

1754 H. Fielding Hist. Sir Harry Herald & Sir Edward Haunch III. vii. 120 In pursuance of this Purpose, various Expedients were tried.

1859 H. B. Stowe Minister's Wooing xxxii. 482 In the pursuance of their great end, the one watched against his better nature as the other did against his worse.

1878 B. Stewart & P. G. Tait Unseen Universe ii. §50. 69 To start in pursuance of that object.

1923 Science 16 Feb. 195/2 He guided the activity of others as one would use impersonal agencies in the pursuance of a definite end.

1994 Sunday Times 6 Mar. viii. 14/1 In pursuance of her goal, she has asked the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists..to offer a medical solution.

1642 in J. T. Gilbert Hist. Irish Confederation I. (1882) Pref. p. lxxiii Burnings and destructions, carried out in pursurance [read pursuance] of the counsels and commands of the Malignant party in England.

1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 46 In pursuance of that Order, I did receive, among other things, [etc.].

1672 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 35 We have publisht a proclamation in pursuance to his Maj^ties Letter prohibiting all persons to commence any suits, [etc.].

1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 273 They allow'd her to be Transported..and so she was Shipp'd off in pursuance of her Sentence a little while after.

1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives i. 35 He freely offered himself, in pursuance of some oracle, to be sacrificed.

1816 Gentleman's Mag. 86 i. 553 General Chartrand has been shot at Lille, in pursuance of his sentence, for having joined Buonaparte.

1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iv. xii. 266 When they reached London in pursuance of their little plan, they took coach and drove westward.

1879 Amer. Naturalist 13 374 By the pursuance of such a method in the present instance, the conclusions which seem to be pointed out, are, [etc.].

1927 N.Y. Times 4 Nov. 36/3 The shares involved in the arrangement will be issued in pursuance to an American depositary receipt for capital stock.

1950 Times 11 Jan. 8/6 The four reprisals proved were carried out by subordinate officers in pursuance of a Supreme Command order issued before his arrival.

1998 R. Hill On Beulah Height (1999) iv. xi. 357 I presume it's in pursuance of this open-minded approach that you still have a diving team searching the Dendale Reservoir?

1645 J. Milton Colasterion 1 What book hath hee ever met with..maintaining either in the title, or in the whole pursuance, Divorce at pleasure?

1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. vii. 330 The train and pursuance of our discourse requires that we should say [etc.].

1648 Cromwell in Carlyle Lett. & Sp. 20 Sept. (1871) II. 55 In pursuance of the remaining part of the enemy.

a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) 243 Hoping..to make him desist from any further pursuance after them.

1693 tr. J. Le Clerc Mem. Count Teckely iv. 62 Altho' orders had been given for a speedy pursuance of them, they could overtake but some few.

1753 W. Smith tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War II. viii. 434 No long time after came letters from Alcibiades, importing that ‘the army was betrayed by Phrynichus, and in pursuance of it the enemy was coming to surprise them’.

1697 F. Scott Let. to Lord High Chancellor 22 Dec. in Orig. Papers & Lett. Scots Company trading to Afr. & Indies (1700) 15 Our Company is establish'd with such ample Privileges and Immunities as were thought most proper for encouraging both Natives and Foreigners to joyn in the carrying on, supporting and advancement of our Trade. We have in pursuance and upon publick Faith thereof,..contributed at home a far more considerable Joint-Stock than ever was raised before in this Nation, for any publick Undertaking or Project of Trade whatsoever.

1720 G. Oldham Serm. Visitation St. Alban's 5 Their [sc. the Clergy] Profession is a meer Trade, in Pursuance of which they are guilty of Priestcraft.

?1854 A. J. H. Duganne Bianca xiii. 49 The..smugglers who travelled the mule-path and its many intersecting defiles, in pursuance of their vocation.

1925 A. F. Webb Miss Peters’ Special 47 One of them was the county ranger, and in pursuance of his business of impounding straying stock he rode upon an aged bay horse.

2006 Times (Nexis) 26 July 53 They [sc. the wigs] were wholly and necessarily purchased in pursuance of his career.