Present participle of adhibit; the act of admitting, allowing, or applying something to use.
From adhibit (Latin adhibire) + -ing (present participle suffix). Creates the continuous form of the archaic verb.
The -ing form of adhibit would have been common in Renaissance scholarship when academics discussed which sources they were adhibiting as evidence for their arguments!
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