[f. STATE v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb STATE.
1652. in Verney Mem. (1901), I. 519. W. R. had done nothing in order to ye stating of the accounts.
1652. Needham, trans. Selden’s Mare Cl., 167. The Ancient Orators,… whilst they allege Examples about the stating of Questions in pleading, do mingle [etc.].
1654. Hammond, Of Fundamentals, ix. § 9. 9. Many other inconveniences there are consequent to this stating of the question.
1662. Jer. Taylor, Via Intell., 8. Many of our Controversies and peevish wranglings are kept up by the ill stating of the Question.
1780. Burke, Corr. (1844), II. 333. When any new propositions are made without their explanations, their qualifications, and a full stating of their grounds.
1798. Hutton, Course Math., I. 49. Compound Proportion teaches how to resolve such questions as require two or more statings by Simple Proportion.
