[f. as prec.] That unites or joins.
a. 1635. Sibbes, Confer. Christ & Mary (1656), 92. That Spirit of God … is a uniting spirit.
a. 1653. Binning, Serm., Wks. (1735), 11/2. Christ is the uniting Principle.
1713. Blackmore, Creation, VI. 420. The sportive flood … with uniting tides … wanton clasps the intercepted soil.
1817. Shelley, Rev. Islam, II. xlvi. Then … shall all the kinds of evil, catch from our uniting minds The spark which must consume them.
1826. Henry, Elem. Chem., 1. 192. When the uniting wire was perpendicularly opposite to the north pole of the suspended needle.
1895. Athenæum, 6 July, 8/3. A book of impressions without any uniting idea.
Hence Unitingly adv.
1728. R. Morris, Ess. Anc. Archit., p. iv. Inroads daily made … unitingly conspire, to destroy … its Beauties.
