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[Eng. behold; -er.] One who looks upon anything; a spectator. their succe ors, whose wild and squalid ". appearance disgusted the beholders." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. vi. bě-hold-ing, * bě-hold-ỹng, * bi-höldyige, pr. par., pa. par., & s. [BEHOLD.] A. As present participle : 1. In senses corresponding to those of the verb. *2. A corruption of BEHOLDEN. Obliged, indebted to, under obligation to. "We anglers are all beholding to the good man that made this song."-Walton: Angler, p. 87. B. As substantive: 1. The act of seeing; the state of being seen. a mother should not sell him an hour from her beholding ..."-Shakesp.: Coriolanus, i. 3. 2. Obligation. "Love to virtue, and not to any particular beholdings, hath expre ed this my testimony."-Carew.