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.
