1598 L. A. tr. G. Fernandez Honour of Chiualrie xx. 113 They would not consent to the terminating of those affaires to be by the euent of warre [It. che'l fatto venisse in tal rotta].

1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 10 Mariage cannot be honorable for the meer reducing and terminating of lust between two.

1696 B. Coole Quakers cleared from being Apostates 17 His great Indisposition and Inability of Body..continued and encreased upon him to the terminating of his Days.

1745 R. Mead Mech. Acct. Poisons (ed. 3) App. 68 The terminating of this duct..at the roots of the fangs.

1786 C. Hutton Compendious Messenger 194 At 954, the end of the first line, the o denotes its terminating in the hedge.

1827 Edinb. Jrnl. Sci. Oct. 287 Had the tenor of Mr Barlow's letter in your last Number been in accordance with its professed object, the terminating of the correspondence, that object would have been attained.

1879 G. Meredith Egoist III. ii. 56 Mrs. Mountstuart preferred the terminating of a dialogue that did not promise to leave her features the austerely iron cast with which she had commenced it.

1922 Bull. U.S. Bureau Labor Statistics No. 308. 82 As a consideration for the withholding, withdrawing, settling, or terminating of any demand.

1962 H. D. Lasswell in C. J. Friedrich Nomos V v. 56 The terminating of obligations goes perpetually on in the social process.

2013 K. P. Parboteeah & J. B. Cullen Business Ethics iv. 163 Next we discuss the hiring/terminating of employees.

1610 E. Bolton Elements of Armories 89 Those terminating, and truly Mathematical lines, abstractedly considered, are manifest.

1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. ii. xiv. 131 Within the same terminating Lines [L. terminos], there can be no more then one Plain Superficies.

1745 E. Young Consolation 76 Where, rears His terminating Pillar high Its extra-mundane Head?

1787 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 2) I. 150 Lateral and terminating fruit-stalks.

1803 J. T. Barber Tour throughout S. Wales & Monmouthshire xiii. 207 The craggy summit of the Skyridd..presented a terminating line of the most picturesque description.

1817 N. Drake Shakspeare I. 56 Interposed between 2 verses of disjunct rhime, and a terminating couplet.

1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. A univalve mollusk having the aperture of the shell entire, or without a terminating canal.

1908 T. G. Tucker Introd. Nat. Hist. Lang. 87 These [languages] modify the sense and relation of words by variations of the terminating elements.

1949 Airports & Air Carriers Feb. 8/3 Direct accessibility to baggage claim area and limousine loading for the terminating passengers.

2006 A. Ash & R. Gross Fearless Symmetry vi. 52 A real number is rational if and only if it is a terminating decimal or a repeating decimal.