1573 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 250 The revewing of ony decreittis or processis in that or the lyke caissis.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A rehearsing: a reuiewing or examination of an account or number.

1636 D. Calderwood Re-examination Five Articles enacted at Perth v. 90 The Papists making a stirre for want of reverence..at the second reviewing of the booke of common prayer.

1678 J. Godolphin Repertorium Canonicum 119 Then such a Reviewing shall be final without further Appeal.

1719 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (ed. 7) 173 This reviewing must be continued for the following Months for all other Fruits; and in reviewing remove such as begin to rot.

1779 R. Boyd Judicial Proc. before High Court Admiralty (ed. 2) i. 12 It is proposed to treat of..the said high court's reviewing its own decrees.

1865 E. B. Pusey Eirenicon 67 The reviewing of the judicial sentences of its Bishops.

1898 B. Mitford Induna's Wife 140 We would sit in the shade in or about the Great Place, watching the reviewing of young regiments.

1921 Independent 25 June 679/1 The clerk who does the routine reviewings has a friend known to the trade as ‘the fixer’.

1986 Punch 16 July 46/3 The roll-on contract with regular reviewing.

2001 Nature 1 Mar. 8/3 Punctual reviewing of grant proposals will earn researchers points..under a new incentive scheme.

1797 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) I. 215 Fifty pounds you might..gain by reviewing.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III vii, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 246/1 The Reviewers who were hired To do the work of his reviewing.

1888 Athenæum 19 May 631/3 In no case did I observe anything beyond..the customs of ordinary reviewing.

1901 W. B. Yeats Let. Jan. (1994) III. 23 Should you have anything to do with the reviewing of it, you should keep in mind that it was refused unread by two Dublin publishers.

1981 M. Spark Loitering with Intent xii. 211 I had to work all my weekends at my reviewing and my new novel.

2004 J. McCourt Queer Street xix. 340 The disinclination of arts editors..to put the author in row G on the aisle of any playhouse in town for the purpose of reviewing.

1789 J. Walker Descr. Poem Liverpool 24 Your royal corps and ours..bore the prize on the reviewing day.

1860 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 29 Oct. After passing the reviewing stand at the foot of Westminster Street, each corps will be under its own commander.

1869 N.Y. Herald 21 Oct. 10/3 The veteran regiment drum corps passed the reviewing platform in creditable style.

1936 Life 21 Dec. 55 (caption) The love feast of Italy and Hungary brought together on the reviewing ship Italy's little King Victor Emmanuel..and bemedaled Dictator-Regent Horthy of Hungary.

1977 Time 4 Apr. 53/1 At his Inaugural parade, Jimmy Carter's reviewing stand was warmed by a specially constructed solar heating unit.

1994 Jrnl. Social Hist. 28 326 Public officials took part..standing in the parade's reviewing platform.

2005 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 10 Mar. 35/4 Ceaselessly analyzed, as if one were the reviewing lineup at a May Day parade.

1805 R. Southey New Lett. (1965) I. 401 Todds Spenser is on my reviewing shelf.

1831 H. Matthew Let. Apr. in C. Darwin Corr. (1985) I. 118 My reviewing scheme did not succeed to my wishes—..I have been too much bothered by my Father here to write at all.

1883 W. Black Shandon Bells xxx We could not have one of our own reviewers abused in our own reviewing columns.

1894 M. Corelli in Idler Sept. 165 ‘Reviewing’ work is too badly paid for any reasonable being to think of making it either an art or a business.

1978 P. Flynn Francis Jeffrey 218 Throughout his reviewing career, he kept a wary eye on the fastidious element among his readers.

1987 M. Bradbury No, not Bloomsbury 338 The Person of Letters..certainly diminished, winning small space on the reviewing pages.

2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 30 Nov. 23/4 The critical, or rather the reviewing, establishment subjected him to a very smelly rain of toads.

1834 E. E. Deacon & E. Chitty Rep. Cases Bankruptcy II. 611 The Court, in its reviewing power, is simply to decide, whether or not the adjudication is valid.

1964 Mod. Law Rev. 27 331 Inferior courts and tribunals are at the mercy of the court's reviewing power.

2004 Univ. Pennsylvania Law Rev. 153 786 A minor line of cases developed that..made it less clear than before to what extent the Federal Circuit intended to apply its de novo reviewing power.

1655 J. Denham Coopers Hill (new ed.) 14 So fast he flyes, that his reviewing eye Has lost the chasers, and his eare the cry.

1783 J. Bennett Divine Revelation 2 Nothing is discovered by a reviewing eye, but traces of a general equity and kindness.

1735 W. Somervile Chace i. 273 Reviewing Generals his Merit own.

1784 Acts & Laws Connecticut 151 Such person shall appear before the reviewing Officer, within twelve Days after such day of Review or Exercise.

1832 Proposed Regulations Cavalry iii. 56 The Reviewing-General presents himself before the centre.

1855 Cavalry Tactics (U.S. War Dept.) 19 When the reviewing personage is midway between the camp-color and the Colonel, the latter turns his horse to the right-about.

1919 R. Derby Wade in, Sanitary! vii. 192 Those to be decorated..came forward.., halting in front of the reviewing party.

1974 Times 12 Jan. 14 Air Marshal Sir Derek Hodgkinson..was the reviewing officer when graduate officers passed out of the Royal Air Force College yesterday.

1998 I. R. McBride Script. Politics v. 125 On the final day of each review it was customary for the exercising officer to present an address to the reviewing general.

1760 Battle of Reviews vii. 93 Among his own reviewing brotherhood he bore the character of a universal Scholar.

1784 Monthly Rev. Jan. 57 We shall..acquit ourselves according to the rules Dr. Priestley is pleased to lay down, as proper for reviewing critics at least, to conduct themselves by.

1807 Athenæum 1 Apr. 341 The business of a reviewing critic may be divided into three branches, which it will be of advantage to consider separately.

1874 in E. W. Wheeler Drops of Water Biogr. Pref. p. iii She ventured to publish a ‘poem’, which was cruelly and harshly dealt with, in the name of criticism, by a reviewing editor.

1901 Notes & Queries 23 Mar. 230/1 They have received the impression from the reviewing journalist that this poem has hitherto been absolutely neglected.

1957 College Eng. 18 261/2 Most reviewing critics agree that Mr. Prokosch is a writer of real distinction.

2002 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 19 Jan. (Travel section) 5 On a recent tour of Tasmania, we stayed in a new boutique hotel in Launceston at the same time as reviewing journalists and Tourism Tasmania representatives.

1783 G. Hardinge Def. Sir Thomas Rumbold i. 3 He is innocent of the Charge and must be acquitted by those who stand accountable to the reviewing Judge of every sentence upon earth.

1858 Times 27 Mar. 7/5 Was the Council..to be merely a reviewing body, called together on certain days to express an opinion of other parties.

1899 Virginia Law Rev. 5 273 The reviewing court did not agree with the trial court as to what constitutes profanity.

1965 Stanford Law Rev. 18 193 California allows the reviewing judge to examine the evidence and to determine whether in his opinion the decision accorded with the weight of the evidence.

1981 Antiquaries Jrnl. 61 i. 7 I therefore gave supportive evidence before the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art on behalf of the Mother Superior and Dr. Dasser of the Denkmalpflege.

1998 Community Care 7 May 54/1 (advt.) Brighton and Hove have established a team of Reviewing Officers with responsibility for chairing all Child Protection Case Conferences and Reviews of Looked After Children.