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▪ I. seeming, vbl. n.|ˈsiːmɪŋ|
For Forms see the verb.
[f. seem v.2 + -ing1.]
The action of seem v.2 in various senses.
1. The action or fact of appearing to be (to the mind or to bodily sense), appearance.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xi. xiv. (Tollemache MS.), By his [lightning's] sodeyne semynge he smyteþ here syȝte þat lokeþ þeron, and makeþ hem drede. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) v. xi. 102 The cursid Sathanas with a shepes symplenes in semyng come and hurteled with hym. c1440Promp. Parv. 66/1 Cemynge, or a cemys (P. or cemys), apparencia. 1581G. Pettie tr. Guazzo's Civ. Conversation ii. (1586) 72 The more we consider the sayde sentence of Socrates, the more wayes we finde out to auoide this vaine seeming. 1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, ii. iv. 108 My Lord, my Lord,..You signe your Place and Calling, in full seeming, With Meekenesse and Humilitie. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. i. §7. 10 Sensible Qualities..are called after τίνα ἐν ἡµῖν ϕάσµατα, certain Phansies, seemings, or Appearances in us. 1845R. W. Hamilton Pop. Educ. x. (ed. 2) 330 The events which are the most threatening in their seeming, speak to us of hope.
b. † by seeming, † to seeming, in seeming, in all seeming, to all appearance.
c1369Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 944 Wyth-outen hole or canel boon As be semynge had she noon. 1470–85Malory Arthur xvii. vii. 699 Thenne they lefte vp a clothe whiche was aboue the ground & there fond a ryche purse by semynge. c1532Ld. Berners Huon xxiii. 68 On euery toure a clocher of fyne golde be semynge. 1612J. Chamberlain in Crt. & Times Jas. I (1848) I. 168 [His wife] would have accompanied him to the King's Bench, taking his cause, to seeming, very heartily. a1639W. Whately Prototypes iii. xxxix. (1640) 20 All this was done in seeming, only to bring them to thorough repentance for their sin. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxiv. 83 Ere his country to Crete freight corpses, a life in seeming.
†c. to (my) seeming, as it seems or appears to (me), as (I) think, in (my) opinion or judgement. Also in my seeming. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Prioress' T. 196 Tel me, what is thy cause for to synge Sith þat thy throte is kut to my semynge. c1440Generydes 4986 Right Inly fayre she was to his semyng. c1530Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. lv. (1814) 202 Incontynente the ymage tourned towarde him, and, to his seming, it blusshed as red as sendall. 1604Hieron Preachers Plea Pref. Wks. I. 476 A very good way (in my seeming) to help the vnderstanding of common men. 1617Moryson Itin. ii. 176 This night our horsemen set to watch, to their seeming did see Lampes burne at the points of their staves or speares in the middest of these lightning flashes. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 738 He ended..and in her ears the sound Yet rung of his perswasive words, impregn'd With Reason, to her seeming, and with Truth.
2. The form in which a person or thing seems or appears; look, aspect.
c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 47 For oon sect þat er namyd ypatetiks affermes þat he steigh to þe emperien heuene yn þe semynge of fir. 1484Caxton Fables of æsop iv. xi, We must kepe our self fro all them whiche vnder fayre semynge haue a fals herte. 1632Brome Northern Lasse ii. iv, I present her to your judgment, whether her out⁓ward seeming may deserve such scorn. 1765H. Walpole Otranto i, Your behaviour is above your seeming. 1813Byron Corsair ii. xii, He slept in calmest seeming, for his breath Was hush'd so deep—Ah! happy if in death! 1874Green Short Hist. vi. §4. 305 Words which show the tenderness that lay beneath the stern outer seeming of the man.
3. External appearance considered as deceptive, or as distinguished from reality; an illusion, a semblance.
1576Gascoigne Steele Gl. 229 And since myselfe (now pride of youth is past) Do love to be, and let al seeming passe, Since I desire, to see my selfe in deed [etc]. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. iii. ii. 41 That we were all, as some would seeme to bee From our faults, as faults from seeming, free. 1816Byron Sketch 59 A plain blunt show of briefly-spoken seeming, To hide her bloodless heart's soul-harden'd scheming. 1891F. Thompson Sister-Songs (1895) 35 Even so Its lovely gleamings Seemings show Of things not seemings.
▪ II. seeming, ppl. a.|ˈsiːmɪŋ|
For Forms see the verb.
[f. seem v.2 + -ing2.]
That seems, in various senses of the verb.
†1. Suitable, beseeming, fitting; according. Obs.
1338R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 51 Bataile bituene vs wille not be semand. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 386 For sarasenes han somewhat semynge to owre bileue. For þei loue and bileue in o persone almiȝty. c1440York Myst. xvii. 274 Insens to þi seruis is semand. 1548tr. Viret's Expos. XII Art. Chr. Faith B viij b, The name of father..is semynge vnto hym [God] for dyuers causes and reasons. 1687Dryden Hind & P. 1176 The Buzzard..Invites the feather'd Nimrods of his Race, To hide the thinness of their Flock from Sight, And all together make a seeming, goodly Flight.
†2. Probable, likely. Obs.
c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 6517 Sa Eata, it is semand, Was þan bischop of haly eland. 1655Earl of Orrery Parthenissa Pref. A 2, And where I have found any contradictions..I have gone according to the seeming'st Truth.
3. Apparent to the senses or to the mind, as distinct from what is.
1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 5290 Þis taken, als I trowe, sal noght be Þe sam cros, ne þe sam tre,..Bot a taken of þat cros semande. a1400–50Wars Alex. 1252 Sa stithe a steuyn in þe stoure of stedis & ellis, As it was semand to siȝt as all þe soyle trymbled. a1557Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 215 Oft craft can cause the man to make a semyng show Of hart with dolour all distreined, where griefe did neuer grow. 1653H. More Antid. Ath. ii. Philos. Writ. (1712) 11 The seeming Ashes may be no Ashes. 1700Dryden Sigism. & Guisc. 46 A seeming Widow, and a secret Bride. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. xix, Miss Wilmot's reception [of him] was mixed with seeming neglect, and yet I could perceive she acted a studied part. 1857H. Miller Test. Rocks v. 194 That his seeming argument was no argument, but merely a sort of verbal play. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 263 He asserts the seeming paradox that [etc.] 1883R. W. Dixon Mano ii. iv. 74 We came upon him riding loftily, Clad in his knightly arms without disguise, No seeming pilgrim now.
b. In comb. with ns.
1598Marston Pygmal. Sat. ii. 144 Diomedes Iades were not so bestiall As this same seeming-saint, vile Canniball. 1654W. Streat (title) The dividing of the Hooff: or, Seeming-Contradictions throughout sacred Scriptures. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. iii. 163 Those astronomic wonders of poise and counterpoise, of planetary law and cometary seeming exception, in his metres.
4. Used adverbially with other adjectives to form hyphened compounds with the sense of ‘having a (specified) appearance’.
In some of these formations the writers may have intended seeming as pres. pple. with the second adj. as predicate, though such a use would be grammatically abnormal.
[c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. xii. 55 And if he oonly shew hym semand religious, and yn his werkys be an euyl doere..he shal be refusyd of god and of þe folk despysed.] 1590Spenser F.Q. i. ii. 27 With chaunge of cheare the seeming simple maid Let fall her eyen. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 401 As commonly all seeming-religious Hypocrites bee, they are charged to have beene devourers of Orphans goods. 1742Young Nt. Th. ix. 1113 What knots are ty'd! How soon are they dissolv'd, And set the seeming marry'd planets free! 1812Byron Ch. Har. ii. xxxiii, Little knew she that seeming marble heart,..Was not unskilful in the spoiler's art. 1817Shelley Rev. Islam iii. x, Whilst I had watched the motions of the crew With seeming-careless glance. 1850Tennyson In Mem. xlviii, But blame not thou the winds that make The seeming-wanton ripple break. 1899Mackail W. Morris II. 205 He was continually seeking refuge from it in dreams of some settled and seeming-changeless order. |