a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 26^v Whanne þe soore of þe wit is by remeuynge & departinge of þe parties of þe body, þe þing þat makeþ þe lyme ake greued most þe witt of gropynge.

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 18 (MED) Þe entencioun of a surgian..is remeuynge [L. remotio] of þat þat is to myche.

1447–8 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 399 Remeving of the kychen and finisshing of the Oven and ye bakehous, x li.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Heb. xii. D No doute that same..signifieth the remouynge awaye of those thinges.

1568 T. Hill Proffitable Arte Gardening (rev. ed.) ii. liii. f. 150^v The better also they will prosper, yf after euery remouing..the Blades be cut.

a1649 W. Drummond Skiamachia in Wks. (1711) 193 Such Particulars, as..will much conduce to the removing of all these Mistakes.

1670 J. Meikle Old Session Bk. 198 The removing and putting back of the loft is obeied an done.

1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 116 The Transporting and Removing of Earth is a vast and excessive Charge.

1789 J. Adam Pract. Ess. Agric. II. ix. 310 The hemp may be again steeped in a lye of pot-ash or wood ashes... This will undoubtedly contribute to the removing of any such matter still remaining in the hemp.

1818 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 573 The removing of the present walk with the two trees.

1851 Calcutta Rev. 15 408 A removing of the land-marks appointed to divide between truth and falsehood.

1882 E. C. Robertson in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 9 507 The removing of the earth brought to view an immense collection of skeletons.

1914 N. G. Bennett Sci. & Pract. Dental Surg. xxxvii. 607/1 A ‘squash bite’ impression..is very easily distorted in removing from the mouth.

1991 Pacific Rev. 4 221 The de-escalation of military confrontation and the removing of certain regional hot spots have provided new opportunities for striving for world peace.

a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 6365 (MED) Þe son sal þan in þe este stande, With-outen removyng, ay shynande, And þe mone ogayne it in þe weste, And na mare sal travayle bot ay reste.

c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 25 Many oothere remeevinges [Fr. remuemens] of which were to longe to holde parlement.

a1500 (?a1400) Firumbras (1935) 1812 (MED) The lyte smale thornys gedryd the kynge, that were broke with the remeuyng.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. iii. 11 I herde the noyse of a greate russhinge and remouynge off the most blissed glory off the Lorde out off his place.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. vii. f. 35^v In contynual remoouinge as the nature of warre requyreth.

a1601 W. Lambarde Dictionarium Angliae Topographicum (1730) 48 Batarsey, the removinge House of the Byshoppes of Yorke.

1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 108 Vegetation, and locomotion are powers of growing, augmentation, moouing, remoouing.

1665 Voy. E.-India in G. Havers tr. P. della Valle Trav. E. India 468 When that mighty King removes from one place to another, he causeth Drums to be beat about midnight, which is a signal token of his removing.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 313 We waited a great while, though very impatient for their removing.

1750 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 566 I have not heard from my brother a great while; I suppose his removing has hurried him.

1850 E. B. Browning Poet. Wks. (1897) 304 Bask tenderly beneath tender eyes; Glance lightly, on their removing; And join new vows to old perjuries—But dare not call it loving.

1862 Times 1 Feb. 4/1 (advt.) A gentleman is desirous of disposing of some furniture he no longer requires, owing to his removing.

1910 C. H. Firth House of Lords during Civil War ii. 60 About 1636 the two lords made certain proposals to the Colony of Massachusetts as conditions of their removing to New England.

1555 Sc. Acts Mary (1814) II. 494/1 Na forther laying furth of stressis and remowing vpone wednisday to be vsit in tyme to cum.

1588 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1881) 1st Ser. IV. 270 The executioun of ane precept of removing.

1588 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1881) 1st Ser. IV. 270 He putt the copy of the removing..in the said Johnis bosome.

1656 in J. A. Clyde Hope's Major Practicks (1938) II. 102 A summonds of removeing.

1683 Acts Sederunt Scotl. (1740) I. 132 Act appoynting Advocations and Suspensions of Decreets of Removeing.

a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) I. ii. vi. §51 274 A landlord's title to prosecute a removing..cannot be questioned by a tenant who derives his possession from him.

1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 848 In order to authorise judicial removing, the tenant..must be warned by the landlord to remove.

1931 Encycl. Laws Scotl. XII. 446 Removing is the process by which a tenant of heritable subjects whose right of occupation has come to an end is judicially warned to remove from the subjects.

a1500 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Rawl.) in E. P. Hammond Eng. Verse between Chaucer & Surrey (1927) 173 Cast vp off Venus the fals derisioun, Hir firi brond, hir flatereris remevyng [?a1439 Bodl. flatries renewyng].

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xxiii. 393 Hardly shall we see two or three corners in the worlde, that have not felt the effect of such a remooving alteration.

1643 J. Angier Lancashires Valley of Achor 22 Desire to see this Forreiner..led some of note and worth into a teadious and removing captivitie.

1684 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia: 1st Pt. (ed. 15) i. 177 There is the Removing Wardrobe, which always attends upon the Person of the King.

1767 View Changes in Admin. Govt. (single sheet) Yeoman of the removing Wardrobe.

1839 S. G. Morton Crania Americana 81 He saw a removing party of Nanticokes pass through that town loaded with the bones of their dead friends.

1870 Daily News 5 Sept. 6 Sometimes upon a pile of mattresses or bedding..were to be seen the removing householder himself and his wife and family.

1914 N. Matthews Munic. Charters (1969) iii. 183 A statute which simply requires the removing authority to give his ‘reasons’.

1963 M. M. Whiteman Digest Internat. Law (U.S. Dept. State) I. ii. 970 Removal of archives..by one of the occupying powers would be a..violation of international law, placing the burden upon the removing power to establish..that an overriding public interest exists.

2004 Chicago Daily Law Bull. (Nexis) 27 Sept. 5 Absurd results occur if the removing parent must prove that the child will experience a direct benefit as a result of the move.