[f. COMPARE v.1 + -ING1.] The action of the verb COMPARE; comparison.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, I. 261. Sen thai mak sic comperyng Betwix the dettis off wedding, And lordis bidding till his threll.
1551. Cranmer, Answ. Gardiner, 409. In the comparings.
1579. Fulke, Refut. Rastel, 728. His comparing of the sacrament with spicebread.
1695. Locke, Hum. Und., II. xxv. (ed. 3), 173. Relation, consists in the referring, or comparing two things, one to another.
