conj. Chiefly Sc. Also 6 sa beand, 9 saebein; 8 saebeins, 8–9 -biens, 9 -bins. [Elliptic for it so being that: see SO adv. 3 d.]
1. = SOBEIT 1.
1559. Caldwell Papers (Maitland Club), I. 75. For ony occasione bygane or for to come, sa beand ye samyn promoif nocht of hir self.
1637. Rutherford, Lett. (1862), I. 226. We wd all buy Christ, so being we might make price ourselves.
1870. J. K. Hunter, Life Studies of Char., 231. He would make her a lady, so-being she would join the teetotal society.
2. Seeing that; since.
1680. H. More, Apocal. Apoc., 263. As the Dragon persecuted the Womans Seed,… so being he could not hinder her going into the Wilderness.
1725. Ramsay, Gentle Sheph., I. i. Wha can help Misluck, Saebeins she be sic a thrawin-gabet Chuck? Yonder’s a Craig.
1805. G. McIndoe, Million o’ Potatoes, iv. Poems 140.
| But saebins this is auld term-day, | |
| The rent nae doubt ye’ll gar us pay. |
