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▪ I. gazing, vbl. n.|ˈgeɪzɪŋ|
[f. gaze v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb gaze.
c1502in Grose Antiq. Rep. (1808) II. *286 It is sen, great resorte often to be made for wonderyng and pleasure in their owne sights, and in wolgar speche callid gasyngs, of the rud and unlernyd persons. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) L j b, Fro tauerne to tauerne, from one gasing to another. 1552Latimer Fruitf. Serm. (1584) 273 Theyr teaching..begate a wondering and a gazing. Euery body maruelled at it & was desirous to talke of it. 1598J. Manwood Lawes Forest xx. §10 (1615) 177 The noyse of their running together, and the gasing of those Deere, that are scarred..will disturbe the quiet of those wild beasts. 1626Bacon Sylva §944 The Aspects that procure Loue, are not Gazings, but Sudden Glances, and Dartings of the Eye. 1741Richardson Pamela II. 92, I wanted to be out of their gazing. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 240 Malicious gazing on human calamity..is the worst form of human hate.
fig.1587Golding De Mornay xxxiii. 532 The vanitie of these contemplations or rather gasings, is plainely bewraied by the effect thereof. 1659C. Noble Answ. Cert. Queries 5 Such reproachfull things may amuse and stagger some weak judgements, and put them to gazings, and to doubtfull standings in their thoughts.
†b. Something to gaze at; a spectacle. Obs.
1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII (1809) 471 For y⊇ which cause thei be more fierce, more bolde & hardy then the other Irish⁓men, and thei be very desyrous of newe things, & straunge sightes, and gasynges.
2. attrib., as gazing-point, gazing-sight. Also gazing-stock.
1563Homilies ii. Place & Time Prayer ii. (1859) 349 They see the church altogether scoured of such gay gazing sights, as their gross fantasy was greatly delighted with. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 45 The monks of Mount Athos, whose mysticism was also of this most degraded type, substituted, as a gazing-point, the navel for the nose.
▪ II. gazing, ppl. a.|ˈgeɪzɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That gazes, in senses of the verb.
1553Latimer Fruitf. Serm. (1584) 293 b, Nowe hee had a daughter called Dina, which gasing damsell went abroad to see the countryes. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. x. xxxvi, Her rubie lips lock up from gazing sight. 1683Tryon Way to Health 486 Neither do we deck our selves with rich Ornaments to draw unto us every Gasing Eye. 1711Steele Spect. No. 167 ⁋3 Gazing Crowds have found their Passions work'd up into Rage, or soothed into a Calm. 1840Hood Up Rhine 310 So we..at last marched into Nichol, through a gazing population.
fig.1791Cowper Odyss. xxii. 457 The gazing sun dries all their life away.
Hence ˈgazingly adv.
1563Grindal Let. to Abp. Parker Wks. (Parker Soc.) 267 If the communion be ministered in Paul's, it will be done so tumultuously and gazingly..that the rest of the action will be disordered. |