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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1637-1694
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Ingoing, -goeing, vbl. n. [ME. and e.m.E. ingoynge, -going (1340–1632), but appar. rare in Eng. thereafter.] a. Going in, entering. b. Entrance, opening.a. 1637 Baillie I. 20.
At the ingoing of the pulpit … some of the women … assured him [etc.] c1650 Spalding I. 211.
[The defence of] the brig … quhilk wes … loist by the ingoing of the soldiouris to John Forbes buriall a1680 D. Blair Contin. Life Blair 590.
The Solemn League and Covenant … , which occasioned a new ingoing to England 1694 Stirling B. Rec. II. 170.
The councill approves the provests ingoeing to Edinburghb. 1687 Master of Works Accounts MS.
[Account for painting of Holyrood House]: the ingoing of the door measures 3 ellnes & 3/4
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