vbl. sb. [f. ENGLISH v. + -ING1.] a. The action of the vb. ENGLISH. b. concr. An English rendering or version.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter, Metr. Pref. 42. This holy man … in all his englysching ryȝt aftur the latyn taketh cours.
1586. W. Webbe, Eng. Poetrie (Arb.), 34. The englishing of Æneidos of Virgill.
1608. Topsell, Serpents, To Rdr. The second exception taken against the former Treatise, was the not englishing or translating of the Latine verses.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 199. Which [word] they have stuck so closely to in their Englishings of Latine.
1886. Athenæum, 9 Jan., 65/1. Some of Mr. Sieveking’s ‘Englishings’ seem to have stopped rather short of English.
