minuting

And of course the civil service method of minuting is used: I once saw no less than 157 minutes written on the subject of how a worn-out set of donkey harness, the property of the Government, should best be disposed of.

What Is To Become of the British Protectorates? 1944

Then, we came home for a marathon of efficient last minuting.

Ready, set, off to camp « The Life and Times of Organic Mama 2009

I dare say there was a vast amount of minuting, memoranduming, and despatch-boxing, on this mighty subject.

Speeches: Literary and Social 2007

At that point Shaik looked at her and said, "I hope you're not minuting all this".

ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

I omitted minuting the Names of the Cases that were tried at Trial in my Ivory

John Adams diary 2, 5 October 1758 - 9 April 1759 1961

-- I cannot say much for the old cathedral; and as far as I can collect from the conversation of a scientific Englishman, who has dropt his watch into one of the boiling vats, while minuting some process, the great soap manufactory of this place offers nothing very different from other places of the same sort.

Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes

Some years ago, on a fine evening in the month of July, long before it was dark, as I was standing on the middle of the bridge, and minuting the owl by my watch, as she brought mice into her nest, all on a sudden she dropped perpendicularly into the water.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 530, January 21, 1832 Various

Private minuting of Mäori Land Court sittings and committees became precious books of family history, copies often made or new information added with each generation (and this writing continues).

Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885

Nabob opened a shabby little portfolio, badly worn at the corners, in which for ten years past he had manoeuvred his millions, minuting his profits and his expenses in hieroglyphics comprehensible to himself alone.

The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) Alphonse Daudet 1868

I dare say there was a vast amount of minuting, memoranduming, and despatch-boxing, on this mighty subject.

Speeches: Literary and Social Charles Dickens 1841