vbl. sb. [f. prec. vb. + -ING1.]

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  † 1.  Acquisition by force of arms; conquering.

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1555.  Eden, Decades, Pref. (Arb.), 52. He euen then … sente furth shyppes for the conquestynge of the Indies. Ibid., 373. The conquestynge of fortie or fyftie myles here and there.

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  2.  Acquisition otherwise than by inheritance. Sc.

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1823.  Galt, Entail, I. xviii. 147. The property is my own conquesting … I may make a kirk and a mill o’t an I like.

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