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?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 91 Grete wondez of trachee arterie..in þe cartilaginous parte ar seldom also cured, for þai ar hard and wiþoute blode and þai haue continuel respiryng [?c1425 Paris respiracioun; L. respiramentum] bi þe wonde.

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. ii. ii. f. 10/1 Beinge smitten..[she] without anye respiringe is, fallen into a Vertiginem.

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xvi. 102 He wrought it out With short respirings, and with sweate.

1651 J. Ogilby Fables of Æsop Paraphras'd iii. 30 But when he..from his Mouth nor Lip no passage found For vitall Breath, nor saw his Breast and Sides To Ebe and Flow with life-respiring tides,..he this lecture read.]

1679 L. Hutchinson Order & Disorder 7 Each where perfum'd with sweet respiring Love.

1697 W. Congreve Mourning Bride ii. i. 24 When I..felt the Balm of thy respiring Lips!

1786 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 76 444 These bones belonged to physeteres or respiring fishes.

1874 Lancet 24 Jan. 131/2 The smaller and more actively respiring animals.

1939 T. L. Green Pract. Animal Biol. iv. 262 5.3 milligrams of CO₂ were produced by the respiring tissue.

1992 Zoo Life Winter 20 The menacing look is simply the eel's way of respiring—taking in water through its mouth to pass it over the gills.

2000 Nature 6 July 37/3 Anaerobically respiring micro-organisms..could have thrived on a litho(auto)trophic metabolism involving the oxidation of reduced phosphorus compounds.