[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That calculates; esp. that shrewdly or selfishly reckons the chances of gain or advantage.
1809–12. Mar. Edgeworth, Absentee, ix. He was calculating and mercenary.
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth, xxxii. It had been resolved, with the most calculating cruelty.
1841. Miall, in Nonconf., I. 145. Men of a hardier, more sincere, less calculating religion.
Hence Calculatingly adv.
1855. Mrs. Whitney, Gayworthys, i. (1879), 7. Huldah Brown looked calculatingly upon the gathered material.
† Calculating ppl. a.2 Obs. See CALCULATE v.2
