examining

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of examinepresent participle and gerund of examine

   It could be serious, my head needs urgent examining.

adjective

1. 1

   Tending to examine or engaged in close examination; studiously observant.

   How shall we be sure that we have justly quitted REASON, as too high and dangerous, too aspiring or presumptive; if thro' Fear of any kind, or submitting to mere Command we quit our very examining Thought, and in the moment stop short, so as to put an end to further Thinking on the matter?

   Those however on whom he wanted to pass, were not of either a very examining strain, or very nice discernment: Besides that, he had such a glow of freshness, health, and vigor, so rare among the parboiled people of quality, as somewhat counterbalanced any suspicion the discordance of his looks from his dress might have created.

   He was, as a little girl I know once said of a playfellow, "a very examining boy."

   However, Mrs Avely had her eyes fixed upon Elinor in a very examining sort of way.

noun

1. 1

   examination

   The auditing of the accounts, when the defendant was present, was nothing more than the examinings of the footings of the bookkeeper.

Forms

plural

examinings

comparative

more examining

superlative

most examining