?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 16 In reuoluyng [?c1425 Paris turnynge aȝen; L. reuoluendo] it [sc. the colon] descendeþ to þe riȝt reyne.

a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 8 This noumbir eke of sex is praysed for his particuler noumberes, whech be on, too, and thre, and þese be cleped cote, for in her reuoluing þei make him euyr hool: as sex sithe on is sex, threes too is sex, twyes thre is sex.

?1518 A. Barclay Fyfte Eglog sig. Cij Proceste of yeres, reuoluynge of season Bryngeth all these, soone in oblyuyon.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. i. f. 51 They were greatly gyuen to..continuall reuoluinge of dyuers autours.

1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 69 In my small revolving of Authours I find as high examples of vertue in women as in men.

1670 Earl of Clarendon Ess. in Tracts (1727) 145 Without..many unnecessary revolvings which men of sharp and pregnant parts stand in no need of.

1740 J. B. de Freval tr. N. A. Pluche Hist. Heavens II. ii. ix. 195 It does not necessarily follow from the sun's revolving to-day towards the west, that it will reappear to-morrow at the east.

1771 Pennsylvania Gaz. 15 Aug. 4/1 There is a great probability of its revolving to the hands from which it originally migrated.

1867 H. W. Longfellow tr. Dante Paradiso xiv. 24 The holy circles a new joy displayed In their revolving.

1888 Daily News 16 July 3/1 The turret paths of the Inflexible... These paths—that is, the circular planes on which the rollers for the revolving of the turrets travel—are of cast iron.

1909 C. D. Wright New Cent. Bk. Facts 516/1 The free ends of the yarn go to the die, and are twisted together by its revolving and are wound upon a spool.

1937 Sci. Monthly May 399/2 New aggregations started, new revolvings of human wheels.

1992 P. G. Allen Sacred Hoop (new ed.) 154 Indian time rests on a perception of individuals as part of an entire gestalt in which fittingness is..how the person meshes with the revolving of the seasons.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. ii. 43 The deepe reuoluing wittie Buckingham, No more shall be the neighbour to my counsell. View more context for this quotation

1599 A. Hume Hymnes sig. C1 The mightie God he gaue to man,..A quick revoluing reasone rype to rewle all the laue.

1699 ‘Philabius’ Young Lovers Guide 16 Self-musing often, with revolving Mind, This cause of Silence in my Dear to find.

1739 M. Browne Poems 457 When with a Mind devoutly prest, Dear Saviour! my revolving Breast Wou'd past Offences trace.

1797 S. J. Pratt Family Secrets V. xi. 83 Any favourable plan that might offer itself to his revolving mind.

1823 Museum of Foreign Lit. June 703/2 If any thing could hold it together, it was the kindness and affection of Sarah, to which I would again and again return in my revolving thoughts.

1881 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 13 Aug. 305/1 Taking advantage of this disorder an expert operator may succeed in establishing special communication between his mind and the revolving faculties of his subject.

1910 Times 18 Jan. 19/3 No doubt the song was in the making of his revolving mind as a pot is shaped on the potter's wheel.

2004 R. Wilson Vanished Hands 73 Ramirez asked to be put to work to stop his endlessly revolving thoughts.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion iv. 60 In memorie of whom, in the reuoluing yeere The Welch-men on his day that sacred herbe doe weare.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 213 An Age is ripening in revolving Fate, When Troy shall overturn the Grecian State.

1704 Watts in Sc. Paraph., Hymns iv. 2 The revolving skies had brought the third, th' appointed day.

1738 Wesley We lift our Hearts to Thee v And live this short revolving Day As if it were our last.

1782 W. Cowper Heroism in Poems 358 Revolving seasons, fruitless as they pass.

1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. 152 For three revolving autumns.

1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid i, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 84 Thrice ten glorious years of revolving months.

1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. I. i. 12 In sacred moon of the revolving year, Was day uprising from his purple throne.

a1929 B. Carman Music of Earth (1931) 21 Under the roof-tree of the world We keep the gipsy calendar, As the revolving seasons rise.

1998 N. E. Rosenthal Winter Blues (rev. ed.) xi. 205 Step-by-Step Guide Through the Revolving Year.

1914 E. L. S. Patterson in E. L. S. Patterson & F. Eschler Banking Princ. & Foreign Exchange ii. viii. 291 (in figure) The bank is hereby requested by the undersigned to grant and continue during the current season a revolving line of credit.

1942 Bull. National Res. Council Jan. 315/1 There is a revolving loan fund of $1000 for the use of engineering pupils in attendance at the University of British Columbia.

1970 Washington Post 30 Sept. b13/4 (advt.) Let Sears clean all your draperies—expert cleaning, prompt service! Charge it on your Sears revolving charge.

1999 Vodafone Ann. Rep. & Accts. 17/1 Tranche A is a $4 billion revolving loan facility.

2005 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 2 Feb. 32/3 What is the advantage of a revolving line of credit mortgage over a normal mortgage?

1845 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Feb. 197/2 Most fortunately there is in operation now no extensive system of banking credits revolving round.

1864 J. Gallop Let. 1 Feb. in Bar Rep. (1868) 7 824/1 Original invoice to be forwarded to us. This credit to be revolving, as per margin. [In margin of letter] This credit to be revolving, and open as often as covered by shipment in accordance with the within-named conditions.]

1885 Central Law Jrnl. 21 460/2 [The company] would be at liberty..to draw another £10000, to be covered in like manner, such a credit being known in the mercantile world by the name of a ‘revolving credit’.

1919 W. Thomson Dict. Banking (ed. 2) 564/2 Revolving credit, a credit opened with a bank by an importer in order to enable an exporter to obtain payment for goods when ready for shipment.

1953 Changing Times May 28/2 Revolving credit is used mostly in specialty stores, such as men's shops.

1972 Daily Tel. 15 Mar. 17 Midland Bank yesterday became the first of the big clearing banks to introduce a permanently revolving credit scheme for private customers.

2000 Printing World 7 Feb. 8/5 Long-term borrowings at December 31 now amount to £469.5m which includes a £46.0m drawdown under a revolving credit facility.

1895 Rep. City Comptroller St Paul (Minnesota) 1894 203 N. W. Revolving Door Co., three revolving doors for court house, Dec. 28, 1893, $696.66, city's one-half share 348.33.

1907 St. Nicholas Oct. 1104/2 It was his stated duty to attend one of the big revolving doors that opened upon the main street.

1914 Atlanta Constit. 6 Nov. 6/5 Felix Diaz is our idea of a man who wants somebody else to push the revolving door of revolution around for him.

1943 Marriage & Family Living 5 70/1 She receives exhaustive medical and psychiatric treatment as well as vocational guidance in an effort to reduce ‘revolving door’ failures.

1970 Jrnl. Health & Social Behavior 11 80/1 The decreased hospitalization time but increased rehospitalization of patients, resulting in a classic revolving door situation.

1977 New Yorker 9 May 35/1 They were not completely comfortable with escalators and revolving doors.

2002 N. Lebrecht Song of Names xi. 275 At the revolving doors, a flunkey hails me a cab.

2003 Washington Post 2 Mar. (Home ed.) d15/4 He could provide some stability at kicker, a position that has been a revolving door for years.

1793 C. F. Greville Brit. India Analyzed I. 208 Local circumstances..depreciate so far this single revolving fund of riches, that even indigenous states deriving from it alone their means of support, have been forced to exclude intermediate proprietory interests.

1835 1st & 2nd Rep. Comm. Public Wks. Ireland in T. Bermingham Lett. to Ld. J. Russell (1846) App. 28 That the Loan Fund be increased by a power of issuing Exchequer Bills for an additional sum, which, together with the £500,000 already granted, shall be a revolving fund for annual outlay in groups.

1928 Britain's Industr. Future (Liberal Industr. Inq.) ii. ix. 101 The Local Loans Fund is a revolving fund vested in the National Debt Commissioners.

1962 Economist 16 June 1116/2 A ‘revolving fund’ is to aid the export industries.

2001 Indiaweekly 16 Mar. 18/3 Work on the pilot project should begin in April with the funding being provided from the Oil Industry Development Board (OIDB), which has a Rs. 70 billion revolving fund.

1839 Morning Chron. 20 Mar. 4/6 (advt.) Mr. Charles Jones's Six-barrel self-acting revolving Pistol will be shown every day at Three o'clock.

1890 Birmingham Daily Post 14 Mar. 4/5 There is a decline in breech-loading birding barrels, and in revolving-pistol chambers.

1980 P. O'Brian Surgeon's Mate x. 320 He had a revolving pistol in his hand.

2000 M. Kneale Eng. Passengers (2001) xiv. 413 He didn't lose hold of his revolving pistol, which he fired off the sky.

1828 Times 8 July 4/5 (advt.) Nine Everth's Patent Revolving Rifles, peculiarly adapted for the field sports of the east.

1996 Civil War Mag. Aug. 48/3 His men found themselves armed with the unpopular Colt revolving rifles.

1860 Christian Examiner July 318 There is a magnificent tableau.., which, by a revolving stage, studied from a cider-mill, and worked by an unseen operator below, contrasts Paganism with Christianity.

1912 G. B. Shaw Let. 27 Oct. in Bernard Shaw & Mrs. P. Campbell (1952) 51 Revolving stages present no difficulty... They are made in Germany.

1974 ‘E. Lathen’ Sweet & Low ii. 23 Appeals for..a revolving stage at the repertory theater.

1991 A. Hayward Phantom Unmasked (1992) (BNC) 12 A revolving stage with five sets helped to keep the pace fast and furious.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Periodiquement,..reuoluingly, by course or fits, or with a continuall, and interchanged course.

1894 W. Sharp Pharais (1895) 48 The warm breaths fell revolvingly like grey whorls of steam.

1999 M. Marra Mod. Japanese Aesthetics v. 205 In short, there is no revolvingly reciprocal world relationship.