cloathing

plural cloathings

1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete form of clothing.

   From others he ſhall ſtand in need of nothing, / Yet on his Brothers ſhall depend for Cloathing.

   1626 (date written), John Milton, “At a Vacation Exercise in the Colledge, […]”, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: […] Tho[mas] Dring […], published 1673, →OCLC, page 67

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   I bound my laquay Tho. Headly apprentice to a carpenter, giving with him five pounds and new cloathing

   1654 May 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for May 5 1654]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC

   Therefore thoſe that uſe themſelves to a mean in Cloathing have better Appetites, are longer breath’d, ſtronger, and not ſo apt to receive Injuries by every ſmall accident, as thoſe that inure themſelves to very warm Cloathes, hot Houſes, an idle soſt Life, and the like Effæminacies.

   1683, Philotheus Physiologus [pseudonym; Thomas Tryon], The Way to Health, Long Life and Happiness, or, A Discourse of Temperance and the Particular Nature of All Things Requisit for the Life of Man, […]. To Which Is Added, A Treatise of Most Sorts of English Herbs, with Several Other Remarkable and Most Useful Observations, […], London: […] Andrew Sowle, page 288

   Thus (c) Pſellus in his Commentary on the Chaldaick Oracles, ſaith, the Chaldees give the Soul two Cloathings; one of the ſpiritual Body, weaved out of that which is ſubject to ſenſe; the other a ſhining, thin body, not ſubject to the Touch, which they call the Superficies; […]

   1703, Daniel Whitby, “A Paraphrase with Annotations on the First Epistle to the Corinthians”, in A Paraphrase and Commentary on the New Testament, volume II (Containing All the Epistles, with a Discourse on the Millennium. […]), London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], →OCLC, annotations on chapter XV, verse 54, page 194, column 2

   [M]any of the poor diſtreſſed People, being bereft of their Habitation, came into England, vvhere the King, in Compaſſion of their Condition, and alſo, conſidering that they might be beneficial to his Subjects, by instructing them in the Art of Cloathing, firſt placed them about Carliſle in the North, and after removed them into South-VVales, vvhere their Poſterity hath ever ſince remained.

   a. 1706 (date written), John Ray, “[Discourse II. Of the General Deluge in the Days of Noah, Its Causes and Effects.] That there have been Great Changes Made in the Superficial Part of the Earth since the General Deluge, and by What Means.”, in Three Physio-theological Discourses, […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Innys, […], published 1713, →OCLC, pages 241–242

   Now perform the religious ceremonies; array me in new and delicate cloathing; perfume me with coſtly eſſences; and, having placed me and the phyſician in a mohaffa,ᶜ throw over it an embroidered covering.

   1799, Jonathan Scott translating 'Inayatallah as Bahar-Danush, or, Garden of Knowledge..., Vol. II, p. 74

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of cloathe