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▪ I. dying, vbl. n.|ˈdaɪɪŋ|
Forms: see die v.1
[f. die v.1+ -ing1.]
The action of the verb die.
1. a. Ceasing to live, expiring, decease, death.
1297R. Glouc. (1724) 485 Hunger & deiinge of men. a1340Hampole Psalter cvi. 20 He toke þaim out of þaire diyngis. 1526–34Tindale 2 Cor. iv. 10 And we all wayes beare in oure bodyes the dyinge of the Lorde Iesus. 1626Bacon Sylva §448 The Dying, in the Winter, of the Roots or Plants that are Annual. 1893Huxley Evolut. & Ethics 9 Life seems not worth living except to escape the bore of dying.
b. transf. and fig. See die v. Also with advs. dying-back: see die v.1 14, die-back.
1750Phil. Trans. XLVI. 413 At the dying of the Stream, it is often two Feet higher than the Main Tide. 1855Bain Senses & Int. ii. i. §16 The gradual dying away of a motion. 1884J. A. H. Murray in 13th Addr. Philol. Soc. 7 The history of the dying-out of Cornish. 1921Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Sept. 574/3 Its silviculture is very difficult, more especially the question of the dying-back of its seedlings. 1959Jrnl. R. Hort. Soc. LXXXIV. 483 Many plants..suffer some dying back of their top growth.
2. attrib. Of, belonging to, or relating to dying or death, as dying bed, dying command, dying day, dying declaration, dying fit, dying groan, dying prayer, dying shriek, dying time, dying tree, dying wish, dying word, etc. Cf. death n. 18 a. (In some of these, the vbl. n. has come to be identified with the ppl. a.)
1580J. Stubbs in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 41 The glad tydings..half revived my wife almost in a dyeng bedd. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 1266 Dying fear through all her body spread. 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 90 To have a sight of her sometime before their dying-dayes. 1620Quarles Jonah (1638) 45 Like pinioned pris'ners at the dying tree. 1711Addison Spect. No. 70. ⁋8 The Scotch Earl falls; and with his Dying Words encourages his men to revenge his Death. 1784Cowper Task iii. 328 The sobs and dying shrieks Of harmless Nature. 1872Wharton Law-Lexicon (ed. 5) 273/2 Death-bed or Dying Declarations are constantly admitted in evidence. 1884Tennyson Becket Prol. 19 A dead man's dying wish should be of weight. Mod. I shall remember it to my dying day.
▪ II. ˈdying, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That dies.
1. a. Departing from this life; at the point of death, moribund; mortal.
c1450tr. De Imitatione ii. xii. 59 Know for certein þat þou must lede a dieng lif. 1563Winȝet Wks. (1890) II. 63 He had leuir the dethe of the deand sinnar, than that he suld returne and leue. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. iv. Handicrafts 422 He..buries there his dying-living seeds. 1704Ray in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 206, I look upon my self as a dying man. 1821Shelley Ginevra 81 The dying violet. 1860–1F. Nightingale Nursing 71 Oh! how much might be spared to the dying!
b. dying god (also with capitals), a god whose death is commemorated annually, typifying the seasonal death of vegetation.
1890J. G. Frazer Golden Bough II. iii. 206 If we ask why a dying god should be selected to take upon himself and carry away the sins and sorrows of the people, it may be suggested that in the practice of using the divinity as a scapegoat we have a combination of two customs which were at one time distinct and independent. Ibid. 207 These features become at once intelligible if we suppose that the Death was not merely the dying god of vegetation, but also a public scapegoat. 1911Ibid. (ed. 3) III. (title) The Dying God. 1912Ibid. VII. i. 33 In that case..we should have to confess that Greece had what we may call its Good Friday and its Easter Sunday long before the events took place in Judaea which diffused these two annual commemorations of the Dying and Reviving God over a great part of the civilised world. 1947C. S. Lewis Miracles xiv. 138 The records..show us a Person who enacts the part of the Dying God, but whose thoughts and words remain quite outside the circle of religious ideas to which the Dying God belongs. 1952O. R. Gurney Hittites vii. 137 He may have been a typical ‘dying god’ like Adonis, Attis, and Osiris, representing the vital forces of nature which appear to die in winter and revive in the spring.
2. transf. and fig. See die v.
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. vii. 36 Another did the dying bronds repayre With yron tongs. 1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 338 As a dying coal revives with wind. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 382 Dying Murmurs of departing Tides. 1713Pope Prol. Cato 14 Such Tears as Patriots shed for dying Laws. 1820Shelley Liberty xix, As a brief insect dies with dying day.
Hence ˈdyingly adv., in a dying manner, in dying; ˈdyingness, dying or languishing quality.
1435Misyn Fire of Love ii. xii. 103 Deyngly I sal wax stronge. 1556J. Heywood Spider & F. lix. 46 As both sides shall liue: euermore dyingly. a1625Fletcher Love's Pilgr. iv. iii, I can dyingly and boldly say I know not your dishonour. 1700Congreve Way of World iii. v, Tenderness becomes me best, a sort of dyingness. 1823New Monthly Mag. VIII. 276 To sing faintly, sweetly, and as it were dyingly. 1955E. Bowen World of Love v. 98 She could not suffer dyingness to usurp. |
