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/əbzˈərvɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Observe v. t. (past & past part. observed; pres. part. observing)

To take notice of by appropriate conduct; to conform one's action or practice to; to keep; to heed; to obey; to comply with; as, to observe rules or commands; to observe civility. "Ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread." "He wolde no such cursedness observe." "Must I budge? Must I observe you?" "With solemn purpose to observe Immutably his sovereign will."

To be on the watch respecting; to pay attention to; to notice with care; to see; to perceive; to notice; to discover; as, to observe an eclipse; to observe the color or fashion of a dress; to observe the movements of an army; to observe an accident.

To express as what has been noticed; to utter as a remark; to say in a casual or incidental way; to remark.

Observe v. i.

To take notice; to give attention to what one sees or hears; to attend.

To make a remark; to comment; to make an observation (3); generally with on or upon. "I have barely quoted... without observing upon it."

Synonyms: To remark. See Remark.

adjective

Observing adj. Giving particular attention; habitually attentive to what passes; observant (1); as, an observing person; an observing mind.

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Etymology of 'Observing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Observing" Quotes from Famous Books

... naturally a good deal exhausted, but had not hurt himself in the least. His saddle, a favorite polo one, was much knocked about, and had been twisted under his belly. It took me some time to put him to rights, and in the meantime I had ample opportunities of observing the spot into which ...

— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling

... so well to the sermon, however, my eyes had now and then wandered, not only to Adela's face, but all over the church as well; and I could not help observing, a few pillars off, and partly round a corner, the face of a young man—well, he was about thirty, I should guess—out of which looked a pair of well-opened hazel eyes, with rather notable eyelashes. Not that I, with my own weak pair of washed-out ...

— Adela Cathcart, Vol. 1 • George MacDonald

... help observing, as we marched abaft, the gloom which seemed to have fallen on the ship. Not that the gay young lordlings did not still swagger and laugh; but it seemed to me their mirth was more hollow than it had been, and, when now and again a sullen shot ...

— Sir Ludar - A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess • Talbot Baines Reed

... be better suited for the business? It was not without danger, but he was without fear. It needed preparation and insight; and what had he done since he was a child but prepare himself with the best culture of Japan, and acquire in his excursions the power and habit of observing? ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... on the best paper, and no pains have been spared, at least on my part, to render it as correct as possible, having read every proof-sheet three times. I must here take the liberty of observing that the work executed in London, and of which a copy was delivered to me to print from, abounds in errors of every kind and reflects little credit on the person who edited it; no systematic order is observed ...

— Letters of George Borrow - to the British and Foreign Bible Society • George Borrow

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