beˈhoving, ppl. a. arch.
[f. behove v. + -ing2.]
That behoves; of use, needful, appropriate, incumbent.
| c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 109 Hwet is elde bihoui[n]ge. 1572 Forrest Theophilus 966 As speciallye ys mee behovinge. 1573 Tusser Husb. (1878) 8 Things to plough behoouing. 1614 Raleigh Hist. World II. iv. vii. §2. 252 Very vnpleasing, though greatly behooving to their Estate. 1850 Mrs. Browning Poems II. 399 Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving. |