▪ I. interˈchanging, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. interchange, in various senses; mutual or alternate exchanging.
| c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. i. met. v. 14 (Camb. MS.) Whi suffres thow þat slydynge fortune torneth so grete entrechaunginges of thinges? Ibid. iv. met. iv. 102 They moeuen..crwel batayles and wylnen to perise by entrechaungynges [Add. MS. -ynge] of dartes. 1553 N. Grimalde Cicero's Offices i. ii. (1558) 19 When he was sent to Rome aboute the enterchanging of prisoners. 1559 Morwyng Evonym. Pref., The Art of enterchaunging of metalles. 1622 Bacon Hen. VII 236 Hee had withall a strange kind of Interchanging of large and inexpected Pardons with seuere Executions. 1895 Athenæum 10 Aug. 185/1 There is one rule enunciated by Collier for the interchanging of the vowels. |
▪ II. interˈchanging, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That interchanges, in senses of the vb.
| a 1586 Sidney Arcadia ii. Wks. 1725 I. 212 With some interchanging changes of fortune, they begat of a just war, the best child, Peace. 1660 Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. ii. i, By this relation and interchanging reason it is necessary that those laws should be distinguished from all others. 1839 Bailey Festus xix. (1852) 277 The interchanging universe Of sense and substance. |