Compacting

vbl. sb. [f. COMPACT v.¹ + -ING¹.] The action of the vb. COMPACT.

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1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., I. 6 b. The body of man doth vtter … so cunning a compacting together.

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1696. Bp. Patrick, Comm. Ex., xiv. (1697), 258. The compacting of the Waters to such a degree that they were no longer fluid.

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1845. Stoddart, in Encycl. Metrop. (1847), I. 18/1. The compacting and fitting together of a sentence.

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