1581. Mulcaster, Positions (1887), Ep. Ded. 6. The effecting wherof pretendeth great honour to your Maiesties person.
1609. Rowlands, Knaue of Clubbes, 17. Although the plot … by thee was lai’d, Th’ effecting of it by me thou didst obtaine.
1671. Flavel, Fount. Life, vi. 15. In order to the sure effecting of this Design.
¶ Used gerundially with omission of in; virtually serving the function of a pr. pple. passive.
1789. Gouv. Morris, in Sparks, Life & Writ. (1832), II. 88. Your sentiments on the revolution effecting here, I believe to be perfectly just.
1817. Jas. Mill, Brit. India, II. V. i. 325. During the time in which this great revolution was effecting in the government of Bengal.
1826. Disraeli, Viv. Grey, I. I. ix. (1853), 22. Ought you not rather to congratulate yourself, that a great change is effecting…?
