[f. ASSAULT v. + -ING1.] Hostile onset, attack, assault.
1548. [see prec.]
1561. Hollybush, Hom. Apoth., 44 b. When a man perceyueth the assaultinge of the ague.
1675. Sheppard, Grand Abridgm., s.v. Battery, Menacing beginneth the breach of the Peace, Assaulting, which every Battery doth imply, increaseth it, and Battery accomplisheth it.
1707. Sir W. Hope, New Meth. Fencing (1714), 232. Laws to be observed upon the Weekly Assaulting Days.
