Obs. [-ING2.]

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  1.  That weens or thinks; cogitative.

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c. 1391.  Chaucer, Boeth., III. pr. x. (1886), 71. Yif so be þat this good be in hym by nature, but that it is diuers fro hym by wenynge resoun [sed ratione diversum].

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  2.  Self-conceited, arrogant, overweening.

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1579.  Fenton, Guicciard., IX. 465. The Swizzers being of nature proude and weening, became more raysed and lifted vp in minde by the estimation that others had of them.

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