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Definition of Abuilding
1. Adjective. Being built or under construction, as a structure or a vessel. ¹
2. Adjective. Developing or arising, as a trend or an idea. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Abuilding
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abuilding
Literary usage of Abuilding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"... of the laying of the foundation-stone of the new college hall at St.
Andrews—abuilding which owed its existence entirely to his own exertions. ..."
2. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1910)
"As a matter of fact, there are myriad such ; as many as we have worlds abuilding,—and
the ordinary mind has a considerable number of these worlds, ..."
3. Shakespearean Playhouses: A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings by Joseph Quincy Adams (1917)
"... well-timbered fellow! he would have made a good column an he had been thought
on when the house was abuilding." l That Jonson thought well of the new ..."
4. Annual Report by Cincinnati (Ohio), Board of Education, Cincinnati Public Schools, Cincinnati (Ohio). Board of Education (1893)
"The removal of the Board of Education from the Library abuilding to their elegant
quarters in the new City Hall, has placed a little additional room at our ..."
5. The Principles of Psychology by Herbert Spencer (1888)
"abuilding that appeared large when it stood amid smaller buildings, loses much
of its teeming largeness if a far larger building is erected close ..."
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