Employing vbl. sb.

[f. EMPLOY v. + -ING¹.] a. The action of the verb EMPLOY. † b. Employment, occupation (obs.).

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1607. Hieron, Wks., I. 245. For the lawfull imploying himselfe in the same.

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a. 1665. J. Goodwin, Filled w. the Spirit (1867), 261. Such an employing of the Spirit as that we have described.

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1707. J. Stevens, trans. Quevedo’s Com. Wks. (1709), Dog, 222. Whose whole Employing is like the Frogs, drinking and prating.

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