a. Metaph. [f. BE v. + L. suffix -ENT.] That is or exists; existing in the most abstract sense); also used substantively. (Introduced to represent Germ. seiend, as expressing pure being in the Hegelian sense.)
1865. J. H. Stirling, Secret of Hegel, I. 321. Something, however, is already a definite Beënt. Ibid., 362. Quality distinguished as beënt is Reality.
1885. R. Adamson, in Mind, Oct., 575. The changing, variable, transitory, and relatively non-beënt, world of finite fact.
