[f. COME v. + -ING2.]
1. That comes; approaching in space or time.
c. 1460. Fortescue, Abs. & Lim. Mon. (1714), 138. In tyme comyng.
1590. Shaks., Mids. N., V. i. 372. The comming morne.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Georg., IV. 230. Mindful of coming Cold.
1802. Campbell, Lochiel’s W. Coming events cast their shadows before.
1848. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 182. Indications of a coming storm.
1850. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., II. 102. Mr. C. may be in Scotland this coming month.
b. With adverbs: see the vb.
1600. Shaks., A. Y. L., IV. i. 113. Now I will be your Rosalind in a more comming-on disposition: and aske me what you will, I will grant it.
a. 1754. Fielding, New Way to Keep Wife at home, Wks. 1775, II. 158. This is a sharper, and no coming-down cull.
1847. Illust. Lond. News, 24 July, 64/1. The coming-in train was a very long one.
1889. Daily News, 4 Dec. He shows a very ‘coming on’ disposition.
2. Inclined to make or meet advances; ready, eager, complaisant, forward. (In good or bad sense.)
1600. [see Coming-on in 1 b].
1605. B. Jonson, Volpone, III. v. If you were absent she would be more coming.
1642. Rogers, Naaman, 22. Have a comming soule to this offer.
1664. H. More, Myst. Iniq., I. xxi. 81. For it will be a hard thing for those that by this Shriving of persons know much of their Interest or disinterest, to hold their itching fingers from acting or intermedling in their affairs, or their other prurient parts from the soliciting the Chastity of such parties as they find hopefull and coming.
1672. Marvell, Reh. Transp., I. 75. A warning unto me not … to be so coming and so good-natured for the future.
1675. Crowne, Country Wit, II. i. What a kind coming Lady she is who would fain be serenaded.
a. 1676. Earl Orrery, Guzman, IV. No Hawk that’s sharp-set will be more coming than he.
a. 1701. Sedley, Wks. (1722), I. 77. Sometimes coming, sometimes coy.
1749. Fielding, Tom Jones (1775), 162. When wenches are so coming, young men are not so much to be blaimed neither.
1836. T. Hook, G. Gurney, xvii. There she was, as kind and coming as could be.
† 3. Coming stomach: a keen appetite. Obs.
1694. R. L’Estrange, Fables, 1. That very Lapidary himself, with a coming stomach, and in the Cock’s place, would have made the Cock’s choice [i.e., preferred a barley-corn to a jewel].
1708. W. King, Cookery, 48. The poor boy … had a coming stomach.
† 4. Becoming, comely. Obs. rare. Cf. COME 25.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 3032 Semyt as þai [sc. browes] set were sotely with honde, Comyng in compas, & in course Rounde.
