BEHOLDING

Verb

beholding

present participle of behold

Adjective

beholding (comparative more beholding, superlative most beholding)

Obsolete form of beholden.

Noun

beholding (plural beholdings)

The act by which something is beheld; regard; contemplation.

But this text and theme I am upon, relates to somewhat far higher and greater, than all the beholdings of his glory that ever any saint on earth received.

Source: Wiktionary

Be*hold"ing, a.

Definition: Obliged; beholden. [Obs.] I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father. Robynson (More's Utopia). So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children. Fuller.

Be*hold"ing, n.

Definition: The act of seeing; sight; also, that which is beheld. Shak.

BEHOLD

Be*hold", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beheld ( (p. p. formerly Beholden (, now used only as a p. a.); p. pr. & vb. n. Beholding.] Etym: [OE. bihalden, biholden, AS. behealdan to hold, have in sight; pref. be- + healdan to hold, keep; akin to G. behalten to hold, keep. See Hold.]

Definition: To have in sight; to see clearly; to look at; to regard with the eyes. When he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. Num. xxi. 9. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John. i. 29.

Syn.

– To scan; gaze; regard; descry; view; discern.

Be*hold", v. i.

Definition: To direct the eyes to, or fix them upon, an object; to look; to see. And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne, . . . a lamb as it had been slain. Rev. v. 6.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition