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?1572 T. Paynell tr. Treasurie Amadis of Fraunce x. 256 The fayre Diana or Moone shall arise, setting you in traine and order to go and to inuade our enimies.

1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Life Agricola in tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. 260 Our men..were now in traine of winning the fielde.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. 3 Concerning the Thoughts of man, I will consider them first Singly, and afterwards in Trayn, or dependence upon one another.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. vii. 228 It is not enough, that a Man has Ideas clear and distinct..he must think in train.

1776 E. Pendleton Let. 31 July in Lett. & Papers (1967) I. 190 Mr. Taylor delivered your Message..but I have not mentioned it, as things were in such a train, as will not admit of that Plan.

1813 C. Cuthbertson Adelaide II. xx. 418 Montagu set in train an exchange from General Harley's regiment.

1822 Ld. Byron Let. 4 Apr. (1979) IX. 203 I will try (as Executor, if I am so) to put your business in a train for settlement—as early as possible.

1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay x. 164 Putting matters in train for the election.

1920 Printers' Ink 7 Mar. 197/2 (advt.) A magazine now in train for publication is in the market for travel stories of Europe, the Mediterranean and Great Britain.

1954 R. J. Hammond Food & Agric. in Brit. iii. 42 Arrangements for feedstuffs rationing had been in train for some months.

1978 ‘M. M. Kaye’ Far Pavilions iv. xxx. 439 It remained only for the bride's relatives to choose which of the two selected dates..they preferred and the arrangements for the ceremony would at once be put in train.

2007 G. H. Jamieson Visual Communication iv. 72 The veneration of national flags which can set in train emotive responses that defy formal analysis.