1611. Cotgr., Alachissement … a flagging, or falling downe, through feeblenesse.
1668. Culpepper & Cole, Barthol. Anat., II. vi. 102. The swelling of the Heart and the Flagging thereof, being Palpable and visible to the external sense, do sufficiently demonstrate, when it is made strait in the Systole, that of necessity somwhat must be squeezed out as it were forcibly, and that when it is widened in the Diastole, it must needs be filled with humors.
1855. H. Spencer, Print. Psychol. (1870), I. II. v. 236. That flagging of the circulation which accompanies the decline of life.
1865. M. Arnold, Ess. Crit., i. 36. He was inclined to regret, as a spiritual flagging, the lull which he saw.
