beholding

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

BEHO'LDING, participle present tense Fixing the eyes upon; looking on; seeing. 1. Fixing the attention; regarding with attention. 2. Obligation. [Not used.] 3. Obliged. Bacon on Love. A mistaken use of the word for beholden.
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