usheringn.
The action of the verb, in various senses. Also with in.
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the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [noun]
servingc1425
sewinga1483
the service of the table1588
ushering1598
dishing1679
helping1824
waiterage1849
waitering1862
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > bringing in
inbringinga1387
invection1598
ushering1598
induction1604
importation1616
introducing1657
introduction1710
society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > usher > fact of being
ushering1598
the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [noun] > inauguration
ushering1850
inauguration1856
society > education > teaching > systematic or formal teaching > [noun] > school-teaching > types of
student teaching1861
ushering1866
substitute teaching1873
housemastering1884
supply teaching1914
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 328 Nay he can sing A meane most meanely, and in hushering [1623 Vshering]. Mende him who can. View more context for this quotation
1614 T. Overbury et al. Characters in Wife now Widdow sig. F Afterwards hee maintaines himselfe an implement of houshold by caruing and vshering.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxx. 247 At the ushering in [Fr. l'apport] of the Second Service, Panurge..[made] a low Reverence.
1850 O. Winslow Inner Life x. 273 The ushering in of that great event.
1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 i. 21 The ushering in of a new political phasis.
1866 A. Trollope Claverings ii Even though he had earned that money by ‘ushering’ for the last two years.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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ˈushering
ˈushering adj.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [adjective]
menablea1393
guidinga1616
ushering1628
conducting1632
near-ushering1637
the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [adjective] > preliminary or introductory
preparatory1442
proemial1447
isagogicala1529
liminary1603
inducing1605
prelusive1605
preambling1608
prefatory?c1622
ushering1628
preambulary1630
inductory1632
introductive1638
prelusory1638
preambulous1646
preambular1647
preludial1647
preliminary1650
prefacive1651
preludious1651
introitory1652
prodromous1652
introductory1660
superliminary1675
exordiala1682
prodrome1682
prodromal1716
premisory1844
prefatiala1848
inductive1868
prolusory1868
inleading1889
prodromic1891
1628 A. Leighton Appeal to Parl. 145 Why breaketh out the fearfull wrath of God..among us, but because of Baal-peor his ushering Ceremonies..?
1637 J. Milton Comus 10 Could that [sc. darkness] divide you from neere-ushering guides?
1820 J. Clare Poems Rural Life (ed. 3) 32 That rural call..All noises now to silence lulls, In soft and ushering sounds.
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