[f. prec. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. QUALIFY, in various senses.
1574. R. Scot, Hop Gard. (1578), Epistle, To deuise argument of priuate profit, to the qualifying of your charges.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, III. vii. (1666), 135. The qualifying and allaying of the scorching heat of burning Agues.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), I. 124. I once thought a little qualifying among such violent spirits was not amiss.
1794. J. Hutton, Philos. Light, etc. 14. To suppose us knowing heat by any other means, besides its effect in the qualifying of bodies.
