[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That analyzes; practising or performing analysis.
1831. Brewster, Optics, xxiii. 202. Without the aid either of a polarising or an analysing plate.
1849. Mrs. Somerville, Connex. Phys. Sc., xxii. 210. One of these [pencils] it absorbs, and transmits the other; it is, therefore, called the analyzing plate.
1863. C. Reade, in All Y. Round, 3 Oct., 125/1. Mrs. Archbold got his boluses, and sent them up to a famous analysing chemist in London.
