?1550 T. Becon Jewel of Joye sig. E.vii He is only bent to the accumulatynge and heapynge vp togyther of worldely goodes.

1569 J. Leslie Def. Honour Marie Quene of Scotl. i. f. 19 Theis seditiouse & trayterouse subiects, haue bene so stowte and storminge in the reconinge vpp and accumulatinge of faults & offenses.

1603 G. de Malynes Englands View 81 If a due care were had for the accumulating of a standing and yet a running treasure within such bounds, as would stil ebbe and flow for the good of Princes.

1676 tr. B. Lamy Art of Speaking i. iv. 63 The Idea's of accumulating and undermining are incompatible, and 'tis not possible to reconcile them.

1723 H. Rowlands Mona Antiqua Restaurata xii. 221 Their sides in one place bossing out, and in another depress'd and sunk in, as such an accumulating would necessarily produce.

1766 tr. S. A. D. Tissot Lady's Physician vi. 19 This Malady of the Female Sex arises mostly from an Accumulating of the Blood in the Bowels.

1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation iii. i. 406 It gives additional force to the accumulating principle, and..it stimulates every individual to maintain himself in his station.

1878 F. H. Apponyi Libraries of Calif. 14 This harvesting of ripened and recorded thought is the most delightful of accumulatings.

1919 H. B. Lathrop Art of Novelist ii. 56 If the mystery is an unsolved strangeness, it is built up by an accumulating of separately possible coincidences.

1941 Rotarian July 15/1 The man who has the knack of accumulating and getting ahead will get ahead again.

2000 H. Paget Caliban's Reason viii. 207 Initiating such an upswing would require the accumulating of technological, economic, and political power in independent African nations.

1630 J. Prideaux Let. 11 Oct. in W. Laud Remains (1700) II. 15 Mr. Balye..upon supposal of Accumulating..hath ever since the Act been at great charge Here, and taken pains to perform his Exercise for his Degrees. This was before any intimation from your Lordship of stopping Accumulating.

1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius Ded. 7 Doctor Wills..was strenuously opposed in taking his degree..and was by many persons denied the common favour of accumulating.

1724 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1907) VIII. 234 There was great grumbling on the occasion, especially because he really had three Terms given him, the Term of accumulating being reckoned by his Friends as if he really had kept one towards the Degree of D^r. more than he had.

1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas Accumulated, Accumulating, Heaped, and Heaping together.

1710 C. Hornby Caveat against Whiggs 79 An accumulating Vote, after several Debates, was carried by a Majority in the House of Commons.

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. iv. 92 The accumulating clouds..assumed a red sulphureous tinge, that foretold a violent storm.

1824 R. Southey Bk. of Church I. 309 A large and accumulating fund of good works, which though supererogatory in the Saints were nevertheless not to be lost.

1889 Western Med. Reporter Aug. 173/1 The correctness of this proposition is abundantly attested by an accumulating mass of evidence.

1908 H. G. Wells War in Air iv. 102 Elaborating the apparatus of war, until the accumulating tensions should reach the breaking-point.

1960 K. Esau Anat. Seed Plants xiv. 186 The accumulating cells form a protrusion.

2006 New Yorker 27 Nov. 114/2 His accumulating hate mail was said to be similar to the letters to Hank Aaron in 1973.