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1629 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum 238 They haue also a mysterie in shifting and reshifting in one and the same Masse from one Alter to an other.

1797 ‘A. Pasquin’ Pin-basket to Children of Thespis 229 Modern Managers are not content with what's right, But will shift and reshift in their honor's despite.

1873 Galaxy July 103/2 The wooer who pleases her best is rewarded with Sydney's name; but as she is moody, she is pleased and displeased by turns, causing the name to shift and reshift until it must be doubtful of its own identity.

1916 Final Rep. Comm. on Taxation of City N.Y. 222 The feu owners and sub-feu owners in the large cities of Scotland can shift their increased municipal taxes on to their building owners and the latter reshift to the occupiers.

1976 W. Graebner Coal-mining Safety in Progressive Period xii. 219 If the industry reshifts to eastern underground mining,..some new employment will occur.

2007 S. Walker Hunter's Salvation 227 Fear brought the wolf to the fore, and William barely felt it as the bones in his hands reshifted, forming themselves into wicked, hooking claws.

1665 S. Pepys Diary 9 July (1972) VI. 153 So back again home, and reshifted myself.

1822 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening iv. vii. 568 In this state they remain till May, when they are re-shifted with their balls into pots a size larger.

1848 Times 28 July 3/2 The objections were..to the provisions for reshifting the burdens on the several parishes of a union by altering the mode of raising the rate.

1864 Atlantic Monthly May 610/1 She hurriedly shifted and reshifted the letters.

1949 Baseball Digest Aug. 51/2 So when he shifted and re-shifted his weight to run he was so far off balance that he was an easy victim of a rundown that started with the catcher.

1969 D. DeLaura Hebrew & Hellene in Victorian Eng. xx. 286 The balance of Christian and pagan..is constantly reshifted as he looks for a formula adequate to his aspiration.

1993 Washington Post 7 June 7/3 He and his commanders had shifted and reshifted plans.

2006 P. A. Klein Econ. confronts Econ. viii. 331 Mainstream economists have been very busy in the past 50 years attempting to reshift the paradigm back to its classical beginning.

1811 C. Lamb Theatralia in Reflector 2 312 The changes of garment..—the shiftings and re-shiftings, like a Romish priest at mass.

1916 Times 29 Nov. 9/3 Retirements which..are largely to me made good by a reshifting of the present office-holders.

1953 Yale French Stud. No. 11. 25 Les Liaisons dangereuses..has as its subject the shifting and reshifting, grouping and regrouping of partners in love.

1999 Boston Globe (Nexis) 27 June (City ed.) (West Weekly section) 1 Now what we're seeing is the Route 9 areas getting built out, and a reshifting of the focus back to the downtown.