[f. BE v. + -ING2.]

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  1.  Existing, present; esp. in phr. The time being.

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1458.  Test. Ebor. (1855), II. 225. The covent of the priore … for the tyme beyng, and thaire successours.

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1523.  Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. ccxii. 257. The kynges of Englande for the tyme beynge.

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1788.  J. Powell, Devises (1827), II. 341. Where there is a gift to the elder son in terms which would carry it to the eldest for the time being.

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  2.  absol. = It being the case that, seeing, since. See BE v. B. II.

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