[f. as prec. + -ING1.]
1. The art of describing heraldic devices.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, I. ii. 6. In Blazoning you must vse an aduised deliberation before you enter therunto.
a. 1586. Campion, Hist. Irel. (1633), x. 32. His skill in blasoning of armes.
2. The painting of heraldic devices; concr. a heraldic device.
a. 1649. Drumm. of Hawth., Consid to Parl., Wks. (1711), 185. Without the bar in the blazoning of his arms.
1828. Tytler, Hist. Scot. (1864), I. 321. On the shield of Prince Henry … there is no appearance of any heraldic blazoning.
1852. Miss Yonge, Cameos (1877), II. xxxi. 327. Subtleties, representing Catherine’s patron Saint, blazonings, or her motto and Henry’s.
b. = ‘Illuminating.’
1843. Lytton, Last Bar., I. v. 68. The blazoning of missals.
3. The action of proclaiming or publishing.
1533. Bellenden, Livy, II. 202. The blasoning and predicacioun of his luffing.
1642. R. Carpenter, Exper., V. vii. 243. Be not so large in the blazoning of your due Obedience.
