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▪ I. minding, vbl. n.|ˈmaɪndɪŋ| [f. mind v. + -ing1.] The action of the verb mind. 1. The action of remembering, regarding, paying attention to, or caring for; also (now only dial.), remembrance, recollection.
c1449Pecock Repr. ii. ix. 191 Into suche now seid remembrauncis and myndingis to be gendrid and had..mai and wole serue at ful Holi Scripture [etc.]. 1534More Comf. agst. Trib. iii. Wks. 1257/2 This matter cosin lacketh, as I belieue, but either full fayth or sufficiente mynding. 1611Bible Rom. viii. 7 The carnal mind [marg. the minding of the flesh] is enmitie against God. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. ix. 482 To awaken and exhort every one to a serious minding of religion. 1701Howe Carnality Relig. Content. Wks. (1846) 230 Souls for their too intent minding of earthly things are called enemies to the Cross of Christ. 2. dial. A reminder; = minging vbl. n. 1. Also, pl. ‘the marks on a stone about to be sawn, for the guidance of the sawyers’ (E.D.D.).
1601Holland Pliny xxiv. xvii. II. 202 If a man or woman happen to be sick of any disease, at what time as this Aproxis is in the flower, although he or shee bee throughly cured of it, yet shall they have a grudging or minding [L. admonitionem] thereof as often as it falleth to flower againe. 1893Wiltshire Gloss. s.v., After a severe illness you are apt to have ‘the mindings on't’ now and again. 3. Comb., as minding-school, a dame-school of which the chief purpose is to keep the children out of mischief.
1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. xvi, I keep a minding-school: I can take only three. ▪ II. † ˈminding, ppl. a. Obs. [f. mind v. + -ing2.] That reminds.
c1449Pecock Repr. ii. ii. 137 The vsing of hem [sc. images in churches] as rememoratijf or mynding signes is not reproued by eny ground of feith. |