[f. CENTRE v. + -ING1.]

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  1.  The action of the verb CENTRE; placing in the center, convergence to the center.

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1667.  Milton, P. L., IX. 109. As God in Heav’n Is Center, yet extends to all, so thou [Earth] Centring receav’st from all those Orbs.

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1708.  Atterbury, 14 Serm., 348 (J.). The visible centring of all the Old Prophecies in the Person of Christ.

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  2–3.  See CENTERING.

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