[f. as prec. + -ING1.] Gathering together, meeting. Also in obs. senses: a. Attack, onslaught. b. Union of two, coupling.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, XII. 515. The remanant … That mycht cum to the assembling.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Pars. T., ¶ 830. Whan thay take noon reward in her assembling but only to the fleischly delit.
c. 1450. Lonelich, Grail, xiii. 539. He sawgh twey batailles … That weren redy to the assemblyng.
1611. Bible, Heb. x. 25. Not forsaking the assembling of our selues together.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., III. 205. The Parliaments of Ireland had then no fixed place of assembling.
