vbl. sb. [f. ADJUST + -ING1.] The process of arranging or disposing things suitably to one another or to a purpose. (Now mostly gerundial.)
1667. G. C., in H. More’s Div. Dial. (1713), Pref. 3. The Adjusting of the Phenomena of the World to the Goodness of his Providence.
1790. Beatson, Nav. & Mil. Mem., I. 8. The adjusting of so many pretensions, and the reconciling so many different powers to them.
1794. Home, in Phil. Trans., LXXXV. 18. In the adjusting of the eye to different distances.
Mod. In adjusting the terms of the lease.
