Crossword clues for behaving
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Behave \Be*have"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Behaved; p. pr. & vb. n. Behaving.] [AS. behabban to surround, restrain, detain (akin to G. gehaben (obs.) to have, sich gehaben to behave or carry one's self); pref. be- + habban to have. See Have, v. t. ]
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To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain. [Obs.]
He did behave his anger ere 't was spent.
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To carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear; -- used reflexively.
Those that behaved themselves manfully.
--2 Macc. ii. 21.
Wiktionary
n. (context philosophy English) behaviour vb. (present participle of behave English)
Usage examples of "behaving".
We can likely compensate for it in a new recruit if she departs from the midst of a serious group of people instead of alone with a single woman behaving strangely.
Apparently the god could neither hear nor see them, nor detect urine or draught from the blue nipples -- or for tactical reasons was behaving as if he could not.
Fast two-legged creatures must necessarily perform in similar ways, however ridiculous a man may appear when behaving as a kangaroo.
Astoria is merely behaving as a passionate woman might be expected to do when freed of all restraints.
They charged further that you were behaving as a king, whilst styling yourself a duke, in these places by conducting criminal trials, rendering judgement without juries and executing sentences of death.
Dashing around like a hoyden, instead of behaving like a proper woman.
Margaret knew she was behaving badly, but whenever she had been sick as a child, she had always insisted she was fine and wanted to get up immediately.
It is time she started behaving properly, instead of jaunting about the hills with a Renunciate and listening to old people sing.
You are just behaving like any man who has had the rug yanked out from under his feet.
I certainly was well aware that I was not behaving in a straightforward manner, but I endeavoured to deceive myself, so true it is that a woman, weak as she is, has more influence by the feeling she inspires than man can possibly have with all his strength.
In my interview, calling my attachment and tender feelings to my aid, I succeeded in behaving myself in such wise that she could not possibly detect the change which a new love had worked in my heart.
I persisted in behaving towards her with a great air of respect, and one day she said that, having seen me in the disguise of a waiter, she would not have thought I was a man of a timid nature.
I was on the verge of behaving in an undignified manner, I stopped speaking.
By the time they got backBovillae was behaving very strangely, wanted nothing to do with itit was too late.
If anyone were to ask her, all she could say was that she took people as she found them, and she had found him just what any gentleman of his age ought to be, behaving more like an uncle to Miss Venetia and Mr.