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Definition of Loosing
1. loose [v] - See also: loose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loosing
Literary usage of Loosing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1828)
"11. Whether it has effect after the death of the arrestee, arrester, and common
debtor, ib. loosing of arrestment, 736, 12. ..."
2. Second Supplement to Abridgement of the Acts of Sederunt of the Lords of by William Alexander (1852)
"D. BOYLE, IPD Act of Sederunt regarding loosing of Arrestments. Edinburgh, 8th
June 1850. The Lords of Council and Session, considering that an Act of ..."
3. The Law and Practice of Citation and Diligence: On the Basis of the Late Mr by Robert Campbell, James Johnston Darling (1862)
"loosing of Arrestments. (12.) Schedule for Arrestee on Letters of General loosing
of Arrestment. I, AD, Messenger-at-Arms, by virtue of Letters of General ..."
4. Alpha: A Greek Primer Introductory to Xenophon by William Goodell Frost (1891)
"X«ov, they were loosing. (Xvo-vo-i). EXERCISE 1. Write out and commit to memory
a table of personal endings, as they appear in the present and in the ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The words as to the power of binding and loosing are, therefore, elucidatory of
the promise of the keys which immediately precedes. ..."
6. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"loosing the shoe is a mark of respect in the East, among Moslems and Hindus, to
the present hour. The Mussulman leaves his slippers at the ..."