vbl. sb. Obs. [f. BETIDE v. + -ING1.] Happening, occurrence.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., V. iii. 155. Þe bytidyng of þinges y-wist byforn is necessarie … al þouȝ þat it ne seme nat þat the prescience brynge in necessite of bytydynge of þinges to comen.
