▪ I. macerating, vbl. n.
(ˈmæsəreɪtɪŋ)
[f. macerate v. + -ing1.]
The action of macerate v.
| 1600 Surflet Country Farme iii. lxiii. 575 Infusion is nothing else but a macerating or steeping of the thing intended to be distilled in some licour. 1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlem. (1641) 183 It is macerating of the flesh that fattens the spirit. 1775 in Ash, Suppl. |
▪ II. macerating, ppl. a.
(ˈmæsəreɪtɪŋ)
[f. macerate v. + -ing2.]
That macerates (see the vb.).
| 1689 Harvey Curing Dis. by Expect. xiv. 113 The Jesuit Confessor redoubles his macerating penance. 1836 J. M. Gully Magendie's Formul. (ed. 2) 132 The disgusting odour arising from the macerating intestines. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 605 The macerating action of a plaster. |