[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. EXPIRE in its various senses.

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1612.  R. Sheldon, Serm. St. Martin’s, 26. From the day of his circumcision … vntill the apertion of his side, after his expiring.

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1626.  Bacon, Sylva, § 69. The Expiring of cold out of the Inward Parts of the Earth in Winter.

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1639.  Dk. Hamilton, in H. Papers (Camden), 80. The day befor the expayering of the 8 gevene in your Matis last proclamatione.

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1662.  Stillingfl., Orig. Sacr., II. vi. § 5. At the expiring of the LXX. years.

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  b.  attrib.

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1661.  Walton, Angler (ed. 3), I. i. 9. If the inspiring and expiring Organ of any animal be stopt, it suddenly dies.

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1665.  Boyle, Occas. Refl., II. xiii. (1669), 230. The opportunity ’tis hop’d an expiring State may give Men for Repentance.

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