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单词 go
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gon.1int.

Brit. /ɡəʊ/, U.S. /ɡoʊ/
Inflections: Plural goes;
Forms: see go v.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: go v.
Etymology: < go v. With sense 1 compare earlier going n.
1. The action or fact of going (in various senses, but chiefly with reference to movement or departure). Formerly also: †manner of going, gait (obsolete). Somewhat rare except in on the go: see Phrases 6a.See also come-and-go n.
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the world > movement > [noun]
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking
stepOE
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1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iv. vii. 209 On thy Commands depends my Goe, or Tarie; Ile stirre with Martha; or Ile stay with Marie.
1691 ‘Mac Olero’ Rapparee Saint 3 I know not where they are if they did not make a go to Lymerick, to get some Vittles.
1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. at Go This Horse has a good Go with him, (he goes well, or paces well).
1828 G. Tew Let. 31 Mar. in E. M. Richardson Next Door Neighbours (1926) vii. 78 Our politicians say on that depends the stay or go of the present Ministry.
1842 Countess Granville Lett. (1894) II. 333 A most distinguished-looking blowen, such a maintien and walk, like Dino and Orleans in her go.
1865 G. MacDonald Alec Forbes II. xxix. 267 All night Tibbie Dyster had lain awake in her lonely cottage, listening to the quiet heavy go of the water.
1918 J. A. Cramb Schönbrunn xiv. 411 The twining figures of the dancers..the youthful flushed faces, the go and come of the tziganes' elbows.
2013 archives.arkansasnews.com 4 Oct. (O.E.D. Archive) The conversation turned to the go or stay of Bill Herrion.
2. Chiefly colloquial.
a. In skittles, ninepins, etc.: an act of throwing the ball. Now only as a contextual use of sense 2b.Formerly also: †any one of the recognized results, in terms of particular combinations of skittles left standing, which a throw can produce, or the score awarded for a particular result (obsolete).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > ninepins or ten-pins > [noun] > delivery of ball
go1683
1683 News from Frost-Fair (single sheet) Heres Ninepins Let's play, To pass the Time away, I'le hold you a Rubbers or two, 'Tis done let it be, Go First I am three, Or no more but a Tip and a go.
1720 C. Shadwell Sham Prince iv, in Five New Plays 175 Nay, our Merchants are like Nine-Pins; you may knock down a Dozen of 'em at a Tip and a Go.
1773 A. Jones Art of playing at Skittles 20 The greatest go that can be had..is 40, or 20 at the bowl and the same at the tip; the least go must be 1.
1873 E. James Man. Sporting Rules 73 Skittle Rules... That all pins be knocked down, but should one remain standing, it shall be considered an extra ‘go’... That the number of goes be limited to five.
1884 Sat. Rev. 18 Oct. 494/1 The best players always attempted their goes in diagonals of the frame, or from corner to corner.
1905 W. C. Hazlitt Brand's Pop. Antiq. Great Brit.: Faiths & Folklore (rev. ed.) II. 441/1 The other player must knock all the pins down in two ‘goes’.
1997 G. Kilworth Thunder Oak iv. 43 We'll call it a strike then—nine skittles down. That means I get another go, doesn't it?
b. A try or attempt (at doing something); a ‘shot’; an occasion when something is done or attempted; a spell, a stint; a turn at doing or using something.Frequently in to give (something) a go. See also to have a go ( Phrases 1b).
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the world > action or operation > doing > [noun] > spell or bout of action
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > [noun] > an attempt
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1784 Proc. Old Bailey 8 Dec. 198/1 That is unlucky; you will not be able to make up eighty this go.
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 8 He would rivet his large eyes, for half an hour at a ‘go’, upon some part of the wall.
1845 Punch Apr. 173/2 He that first scores 12..is declared winner, though the game may be won at a single ‘go’.
1877 W. H. Thomson Five Years' Penal Servitude iii. 221 I've twelve this go. I did a lagging of seven, and [etc.].
1894 Boston Daily Globe 23 July 1/6 There was an air of diffidence about the different drug stores that were opened yesterday, which plainly said, ‘We are not sure of this matter, but we'll give it a go and see how it comes out.’
1898 J. Arch Story of Life xvi. 381 I wrote it in 2 goes of 6 hours each.
1930 Eng. Jrnl. 19 200 Come on now; it's your go.
1965 Flight Internat. 26 Aug. 358/1 Throw a four, and what have we here—military interest in your project... Two—competitor gets order for 15,000 F-111s, miss a go.
1975 G. Aron Bar & Ger (1980) 18 Ger had a go on my bike.
1992 More 28 Oct. 24 Those of you who really must wear a black dress should give a baby doll a go.
2003 P. Lovesey House Sitter xxii. 294 ‘Is it worth questioning him again?’ ‘I wouldn't mind another go.’
2008 M. Ramsden War School iv. 13 ‘It's your go!’ I told him, handing him the five differently coloured dice we use for wargaming.
c. Originally: a prizefight, boxing match, or the like. Later more generally: a contest, a competition; a fight; an argument.
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society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > an act or instance of
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society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun] > a contest or competition
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > bout or contest
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1823 Morning Chron. 22 Mar. The late fights have set the game alive again... Eleven to ten is the betting on Spring... The like odds is also the go between Cooper and Cabbage.
1890 Texas Siftings 1 Nov. 7/3 Cost me five dollars the other day to see the tamest kind of a go. There wasn't a knockdown in ten rounds.
1893 K. Mackay Out Back (ed. 2) ii. i. 153 Douglas and Wrixon dearly loved a ‘go’ between horses.
1902 W. Satchell Land of Lost xxvi. 243 There was the little go we 'ad on the gumfield—'e 'ad all the best of that.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 197 The Liverpudlian says ‘Come on I'll 'ave you a go’..or ‘I'll have you a scrap’.
1996 M. Munro Compl. Patter (1999) 62 What's your problem, pal? Want yer go?
d. Australian colloquial. Reasonable treatment; a fair chance; = fair go n.
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society > morality > rightness or justice > [noun] > fairness or equity > situation
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a fair go1888
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1954 V. Kelly Shadow 89 Down there the cops'll give you a go. Here they're on your wheel all the time.
1978 L. Randall Austral. Family Plays 69 Hell, he only left here about 10 minutes ago. Give him a go, he's not driving a jet.
1990 Sunday Tasmanian (Nexis) 4 Nov. An olive tree that's survived this far deserves a go.
2009 D. B. Williams Found Alone & Wandering 76 Give a bloke a go. We're living on spuds and damper this week.
3. colloquial (originally Criminals' slang).
a. Originally: †an enterprise or business that may be turned to advantage (with preceding adjective) (obsolete). Later: a success; something that goes well or flourishes. Now rare except in to make a go of at Phrases 4.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] > one who or that which is successful > that which is successful
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success story1925
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1780 Festival of Momus 175 We live in perfect harmony, With bub and grub our fill: For we have stag'd a precious go, And queer'd the flats at thrums E O.
1829 Proc. Old Bailey 11 June 600/2 Conway..asked him if he could obtain a blank cheque, and I recollect Conway saying he knew of a good go.
1847 Amer. Literary Mag. Nov. 327 This [sc. a piece of writing] was a great go; and when poet Patten..read it aloud at the exhibition, all the people thought me very clever.
1873 Punch 13 Dec. 241/2 James Anderson, my Jo.., without your Roman bearing Would this [sc. a production of Antony and Cleopatra] have been ‘a go’?
1888 Harper's Mag. Oct. 689/1 Determination to make the venture a go.
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. xv. 254 He had told the company that Susan was sure to make a go; and after she had made a go, he announced the beginning of a season of triumph.
1925 E. Hungerford Story of Waldorf-Astoria viii. 158 From the very outset the hyphenated house was a tremendous ‘go’.
b. A proceeding, a state of affairs; a (usually unexpected or untoward) turn of events. Usually (now only) with preceding adjective, as a rum (also pretty, queer, etc.) go. Now somewhat archaic.
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > unexpected event or course of events
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1783 Proc. Old Bailey 29 Oct. 952/2 By God this is a rum go.
1789 Parsley's Lyric Repository, for 1789 69 But what a pretty go!
1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl IV. iv. 101 ‘There's a goo now,’ cried Miss, with a hoyden laugh.
1820 ‘R. Breakwindow’ Jack Randall's Diary 11 You all well know, The joy there is whene'er we meet, It's what I call the primest Go. [Note] The finest thing possible.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. xii. 161 Well out of that, sir... By the Lord Harry! it might have been a pretty go.
1869 B. Harte Return Belisarius 14 You knew that he's got the consumption? You didn't! Well, come, that's a go.
1895 M. J. Holmes Dr. Hathern's Daughters iii. iv. 279 This is a nice go for Christmas and a wedding. Call this the sunny south? I am frozen to my bones.
1922 L. Griswold Tides of Deal ix. 141 ‘That was a queer go!’ exclaimed Maine. ‘Most queer,’ said Lisle.
1948 M. Allingham More Work for Undertaker x. 125 ‘It's a pretty go,’ said Jas. Bowels with relish, ‘and that's the only possible thing to say, a pretty go.’
1993 P. O'Brian Wine-dark Sea (1994) 253 ‘Well, here's a pretty go,’ cried Jack. ‘Here's a pretty mess.’
2002 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 23 Feb. 14 Still, it's a rum go, and no mistake, rather like reading your own obituary.
c. In predicative use with the: the height of fashion; the ‘in’ thing, the ‘rage’. Esp. in all the go (formerly also quite the go). Now somewhat archaic.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective]
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > the or a prevailing fashion > fashionable thing or craze
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1784 H. Cowley More Ways than One ii. 26 The French are going to follow us—we are all the go in Paris.
1793 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 50 Have you read Mr. Fox's letter to the Westminster electors? It is quite the political go at Cambridge.
1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family I. 183 He is quite the thing; the go in every respect.
1819 T. Moore Epist. from Tom Cribb 2 Is this the new go?—kick a man when he's down!
1821 P. Egan Life in London i. vi. 90 In the Parks, Tom was the go among the ‘goes’!
1840 R. H. Barham Lay St. Nicholas in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 266 But who doth not know it [sc. a costume] was rather the go With Pilgrims and Saints in the second Crusade?
1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour i. vi. 25 Elegant shawls labelled..‘Quite the Go!’.
1906 J. L. Ford Wooing of Folly xl. 128 You know these Bohemian affairs are quite the go in New York.
1918 Glovers Rev. June 41/2 Gray Mocha and gray Silk have been quite the go.
1946 G. H. Parker World Expands iii. 18 The velocipede, the forerunner of the bicycle, was then all the go.
2002 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 26 Dec. 37/4 Viewfinders, the binocular-like machines that were all the go back in the 1950s.
4. colloquial.
a. Originally: †a small drinking vessel (obsolete). Later more usually: the quantity of drink held by this; (more generally) a portion or small draught of drink. Cf. go-down n.2 1a.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > holding specific amount
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1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) Go-shop, the Queen's Head in Duke's-court..where gin and water is sold in three-halfpenny bowls, called Goes.
1796 Times 13 July They toss off their goes of brandy, dine about five, and come about eight to the Theatre.
1807 D. Lawler Vicissitudes Early Life I. vii. 94 Each had called either for a pint of porter or a go of brandy.
1841 Punch 30 Oct. 185/1 A pewter ‘go’ (which, if everybody had their own, would in all probability belong to Mr. Evans, of Covent Garden Piazza).
1843 Bentley's Misc. Jan. 115 At last he took his seat, amidst the jingling of stout-glasses..and the concussions of pewter-goes upon the table.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island ii. viii. 66 Three goes o' rum!
1943 T. Harrisson et al. Pub & People ii. 47 During the meal the old man has Sauterne [sic], followed by five goes of port.
2008 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 3 Apr. (Sport section) 9 You could stick it in a glass with two goes of gin, tonic and a few rocks of ice.
b. More generally: a portion, helping, or dose of anything that may be eaten or consumed; (occasionally) a quantity of anything supplied or obtained at one time. Cf. gang n. 3b.The sense of quot. 1805 is uncertain.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > amount of drink > supplied at one time
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1805 Trans. Soc. Arts 23 249 Beaming webs of any number of half gangs, goes, runners, or equal quantities of warps or chains of yarn.
1859 Colburn's United Service Mag. Jan. 31 He..took another go of opium stronger than the last, rolled himself up in his blanket, and very soon composed himself to those delightful visions of Paradise.
1865 Daily Tel. 26 Dec. 3/3 Two or three ‘goes’ of roast mutton.
1880 L. Wingfield In Her Majesty's Keeping III. ii. ii. 27 What Spevins said..ought to make them turn this over between two goes of beef and pickles.
1903 S. MacManus Lad of O'Friel's 18 Fetch in a couple of goes of brasna.
1906 A. E. Blanchard Four Corners xvii. 322 Two or three goes of it [sc. penuche fudge] will make enough to give a lot of people.
1922 A. Crowley Diary of Drug Fiend iii. iv. 306 We had to take several goes of heroin on the way.
1981 R. Davies Rebel Angels (1983) 65 ‘What do you want to eat?’ ‘Let's start with a big go of shrimp.’
2004 C. B. McCully Goodbye, Mr. Wonderful 213 I ordered a coffee. I stirred in three goes of sugar.
c. British. An attack or bout of a particular illness or condition.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > bout or attack of
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1867 I. Harwood Raymond's Heroine xxxvii. 109/1 I don't want another go of rheumatism, I can tell you.
1882 S. Baildon Tea Industry in India v. 89 Our traveller on the Assam steamer probably meets..several [planters] taking a short river-trip to recover from the after-effects of a bad go of fever.
1920 Blackwood's Mag. May 614/2 A bad go of snow-blindness had driven me in to Leh.
1958 A. Campbell Heart of India vi. 151 Rud was thinner than when I had last seen him... He told me ruefully he had had a bad go of dysentry [sic].
2011 C. McWilliam What to look for in Winter i. ii. iii. 130 I just don't swallow the idea that she had a rotten go of flu.
5. Cribbage. The position or fact of being unable to play a card on one's turn; the point scored by one's opponent when this occurs. Also as int., as a call made by a player who cannot play.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > cribbage > [noun] > actions or tactics
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Tom Bray's bilk1819
muggins1948
1794 Sporting Mag. Dec. 162/2 The other two [players] immediately following as the first, made it a go from his adversary.
1796 C. Jones Hoyle's Games Impr. 291 When the Party whose turn it may be to play cannot produce a Card that will make 31, or come in under that Number, he then says, Go, to his Antagonist.
1823 C. Lamb Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist in Elia 80 She could never heartily bring her mouth to pronounce ‘go’—or ‘that's a go’. She called it an ungrammatical game.
1830 R. Hardie Hoyle made Familiar 54 If B can play an ace, he says thirty-one, and takes two points; if not, he says go, and A scores one point for the go.
1922 Amer. Mag. Feb. 137/2 If a player has no card which will play within the sum of 31, he announces a ‘go’.
1957 Encycl. Brit. VI. 687/1 One object of play is to score a ‘go’ by playing the last card in a series, to which the opponent cannot play without exceeding 31.
1988 P. Arnold Bk. Card Games 103/1 When a player calls ‘go’, the next player to the left lays, and so on.
2000 D. Barlow Play Cribbage to Win 32 To score more than a go and a 15–2 would be extremely lucky.
6. colloquial.
a. Originally of a horse: capacity to go fast or well; physical vigour or stamina; motive power.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun]
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1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 178 She's only fit to carry a dean or a bishop.—No go in her.
1830 A. W. Fonblanque Eng. under Seven Admin. (1837) II. 50 Ellenborough [spoken of as a horse],..all action, and no go.
1867 Baily's Monthly Mag. Apr. 75 Five strides will carry the leader to victory [in the running race], but he has done his best, he hasn't one ounce of ‘go’ left.
1887 Daily Tel. 10 Sept. 2/5 She..looked like a boat with a great deal of ‘go’ in her.
1921 Field Artillery Jrnl. 11 167 At no time did either horse show signs of exhaustion. They..both still had lots of go.
1942 Michigan Technic Mar. 32/3 I'm just proving to my men that they still have lots of ‘go’ and are not nearly as tired as they may think they are.
1989 S. Barry Boss Grady's Boys ii. 57 He can pull the cart still, he enjoys himself in the shafts... He has plenty of go in him still. But he's troubled by age.
2008 Pop. Sci. Aug. 31 (advt.) A 243-horsepower engine means plenty of go.
b. Vitality, animation, energy, dynamism, dash; (of music, etc.) rhythmicality, brightness, ‘swing’.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] > qualities of music generally
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spikiness1962
1843 J. H. Newman Let. 11 Dec. in J. Ornsby Mem. J. R. Hope-Scott (1884) II. 31 Its integrity, vigour—in a word, its go.
1864 J. Brown Plain Words Health Pref. 9 A queer man..always scheming—full of ‘go’, but never getting on.
1882 Daily Tel. 9 Oct. 2/7 Mr. Grossmith's music is..full of humour and ‘go’.
1884 Congregationalist Feb. 109 Numbers of people who like the ‘swing’ and ‘go’..of these popular religious ballads.
1892 G. D. Leslie Lett. to Marco (1893) 223 Physically, he is a wonderful man..very wiry, and full of energy and go.
1913 H. James Let. 7 June in H. James & E. Wharton Lett. (1990) vi. 256 I greatly admire the..brilliant ‘go’ of Morton [Fullerton]'s book.
1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 93 You may say what you like. There's no woman like the Parisienne—for style, for go.
1993 Wine May 67/1 The palate is lush and creamy/toasty, peppery and complex; there's lots of go to gee up the tastebuds.
2010 T. French Faithful Place xvii. 296 Matt was a boring little bollix. No go in him.
c. Originally U.S. Vigorous activity or exertion. In later use esp. in it's all go.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > vigorous activity
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1848 S. A. Dix Poem spoken before Boston Mercantile Libr. Assoc. 17 This ‘bolting dinners’, hurrying to and fro; Keeping up one continued, constant ‘go’;..These are the features of the times..That give to modern life its zest and tone.
1894 Proc. 39th Ann. Convent. Amer. Assoc. Passenger & Ticket Agents 182 Fourteen days was the time [of the trip] from Chicago to the return, and it was go all the time.
1913 Boston Cooking-school Mag. May 787/1 The main cause of nervous breakdowns, and many other modern ailments, is mostly due to the constant ‘go’ of the American wife and mother.
1965 New Statesman 14 May 777/1 Believe me, it's all go with these tycoons, mate. Life's just one frenetic whirl of soigné secretaries and sex-mad air 'ostesses.
1991 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 7 Dec. It was go all the time, and then with Mikaela in hospital we only saw each other for 10 minutes a day.
2008 S. Toltz Fraction of Whole i. 27 Granite tablets had been shipped from Sydney... The shovels were standing by. It was all go!
7. Scottish and Manx English. A state of anxiety, distress, or excitement; a fuss, bother, ‘to-do’.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [noun]
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foment1889
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swivet1892
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tither1896
overwroughtness1923
mania1925
stumer1932
tizzy1935
two and eight1938
snit1939
tizz1953
tiswas1960
wahala1966
1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire 68 The hail queentry side wis in a great go fin it wiz kent the auld minister's sin wiz t' get the kirk.
1898 H. Rogers Meggotsbrae 7 We micht hae come on no sae bad..if it hadna been for the go wi' her next.
1934 W. W. Gill Manx Dial. ii. 57 The go that was arram for weeks was somethin' shockin' tarrable.
8. A signal to proceed; permission to commence; the go-ahead. Also attributive.Now frequently with reference or allusion to the launch of a spacecraft.
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society > communication > indication > signalling > [noun] > signal > other specific signals
return1835
go-ahead1849
highball signal1899
pan1927
go1933
alert1970
1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage i. 16 The conductor, with his ‘warning’ on, is waiting for ‘the go’.
1962 J. Glenn in J. Glenn et al. Into Orbit 192 ‘You have a Go,’ he said, ‘for at least seven orbits’.
1970 Flying 28 We have a GO from Houston.
1992 Smithsonian June 120/3 Doolittle's Mitchell revved up, was given a go signal, and trundled down the deck and into the air.
2002 V. Passaro Violence, Nudity, Adult Content (2003) 218 Red lips, black hair... Her mouth on me... Affirmative, Houston, we have a go.

Phrases

P1. Chiefly colloquial. to have a go.
a.
(a) Chiefly with at. To aim a blow or shot at someone or something; to make an attack or onslaught upon someone or something.
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1792 Lady's Mag. May 244/1 I felt such a flow of spirits and courage, that I hid myself behind a tree, determined to have a go at him—the moment he passed me, I fired my pistol.
1896 Pall Mall Mag. Apr. 525 It seemed a pity to let those brutes pass us with an unprotected flank, and not to have a go at them.
1914 G. Lee Diary 1 Aug. in Home Fires Burning (2006) 13 With our Navy at the very height of its strength and efficiency..it would be a mighty pity if we did not have a go at the Germans.
1973 E. Dunphy Only a Game? (1976) iii. 96 He had had a go, stuck the nut on a fellow, for which he was booked.
1991 R. Reiner Chief Constables iii. ix. 203 The boys in the sixth forms were going to have a go at each other in quite a nasty way. They were tooling themselves up.
2011 T. Ronald Becoming Nancy (2012) x. 146 Another boy has a go at Frances; starts pulling her hair and shoving her about.
(b) Chiefly with at. To attack verbally, to berate; to reproach, criticize.
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1835 R. H. Froude Let. 17 July in Remains (1838) I. 417 And now I will have another go at you, about your rule of faith in fundamentals.
1891 G. M. Fenn Sawn Off 109 I have not had a go at you for a twelvemonth. I haven't half done yet.
1911 J. E. Buckrose Love in Little Town xx. 346 You want to have a go at Lady Eleanour, do you? Well—have a go at her! There she is.
1977 ‘C. Aird’ Parting Breath x. 127 He was always having a go at Sergeant Gelven..about his weight.
1996 C. Higson Getting Rid of Mr Kitchen i. 8 ‘Don't get me wrong,’ he said. ‘I'm not having a go. I'm just stating a fact.’
2012 H. Lucht Darkness before Daybreak ii. 46 Massimo had a go at him..for being a no-good lazybones.
b. Frequently with at. To make an attempt at something; to have a spell or turn of doing something.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > attempt [verb (transitive)]
fandOE
assayc1300
tryc1315
provec1330
adventurea1387
sayc1390
paina1400
havec1400
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afforcec1487
afond1488
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procure1574
endeavour1581
offer1611
poacha1616
attent1620
to venture at1623
essay1641
attentate1656
smacka1657
tempt1697
to try at1794
to have a go1802
to make a (good, poor, etc.) fist1833
tackle1847
to have or take a whack at1891
to make (or have, etc.) a stab at (something)1895
to have a dash (at)1916
1802 Sporting Mag. May 118/1 Then join'd Lord Grey the pleasant sport, For who could say him, ‘No!’ Fiery his horse, his whip but short, But yet, ‘He'd have a go.’
1863 C. Reade Hard Cash I. iv. 123 You have stumbled on a passage you can't construe... Here, let me have a go at it.
1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat 58 I agreed and sat down, and they had a go.
1895 Cornhill Mag. Aug. 176 We'll have another go at this game next Thanksgiving.
1912 W. Elmhirst Freshman's Diary 28 Apr. (1969) 67 We paddled most of the way up..& then Beach had a go at punting. Coming back I had a go for some time.
1933 Times 16 May 11/4 It was alleged that Field took a ‘push board’ into the room and asked several privates to ‘have a go’ at a penny a time.
1955 A. Atkinson Exit Charlie (1957) iv. 106 It might not be a bad thing to have a go at the acting profession, for a youngster.
1982 Southern Rag 12 43/2 A good, stompy little country blues band, they have a go at standards like Corinna.
2008 Independent 25 July (Extra section) 4/3 Some of these men had been members of local choral societies, some were singers in local bands; others were just up for having a go.
c. Cricket. To hit out freely or recklessly in an attempt to make runs.
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1880 Bell's Life in London 8 May 9/1 Twice he made leg hits that we have rarely seen excelled. He seems prone to ‘have a go’ however.
1894 N. Gale Cricket Songs (new ed.) 25 Toss him down a slow, you see, He's sure to have a go, you see!
1963 Times 28 Feb. 3/6 After several overs, during which he seemed to command the bowling, he announced to Reid, who was his partner, that he had ‘had it’ and was going to have a go.
2007 I. Botham Head On (2008) vi. 185 Doshi had tossed a few up well wide of off-stump, tempting me to have a go.
d. British. Esp. of a private citizen (as distinct from a police officer, security guard, etc.): to take independent or single-handed action against criminals.
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1965 Daily Mail 1 Jan. 7/2 Mr. Ranulph Bacon, Scotland Yard Assistant Commissioner for Crime, yesterday gave this advice to the public if they saw gunmen carrying out a raid: ‘If you can have a go, have a go.’
1965 Times 1 Jan. 4/6 It is completely wrong to encourage people to ‘have a go’..particularly when the criminals they are..having a go at are trigger-happy hooligans.
1966 Economist 6 Aug. 534/1 There is a cryptic passage about legal protection for citizens who fight against crime (Russians who ‘have a go’?).
1997 R. Ingleton Arming Brit. Police iv. 65 A passer-by who attempted to ‘have a go’ was shot and wounded and the criminals were pursued by a rapidly growing posse of policemen and others.
2003 Holiday Which? Summer 147/3 After the attacks of 11 September, passengers were more inclined to ‘have a go’.
P2. in (also at) one go: in a single instalment; all at once; in one unbroken spell of effort.
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1818 New Times 3 July And now, I think, you will allow I have given you as much as you could in reason expect at one go.
1847 R. Owen Let. 5 Nov. in Life (1894) I. ix. 304 As men spread they..killed the hyænas off at one go in Yorkshire, for example.
1902 A. M. Williamson Silent Battle xvi. 151 An offer of more than a week's salary, ‘all in one go’, merely for taking a gentleman's word.
1927 V. Sackville-West Let. 23 Feb. in Lett. to V. Woolf (1984) 153 The Persians are incapable of delivering the whole of the post at one go..so that it arrives in driblets.
1971 Guardian 22 Oct. 9/2 Partworks began in the mid-eighteenth century when the ‘Encyclopaedia Britannica’ found itself unable to raise sufficient funds to publish all the volumes in one go.
2006 New Yorker 25 Dec. 56/3 They were of that generation advised by dentists to have their teeth out in one go.
P3. colloquial. it's a go: it's a deal; it's agreed; used to express assent to a proposal, bargain, etc. Similarly is it a go?
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the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] > an agreement
forewardOE
accordc1275
covenant1297
end1297
form1297
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conjurationc1374
treatc1380
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whizz1869
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gentlemen's agreement1880
meeting of minds1883
1821 ‘N. A. Philomirth’ My Bk. 56 Lend me your cloaths, you know, and put five guineas into the breeches pocket, and it's a go.
1852 H. H. Paul Dashes Amer. Humour 12 ‘Bring me a red silk bonnet with an ostridge feather, and I'll be the happiest girl in Barley Creek.’ ‘It's a go, Polly.’
1878 B. Harte Man on Beach 61 ‘Then it's a go?’.. ‘It's a go.’
1908 Magnet 1 1 The Remove don't like you now, but we'll stick together, and bring them round. Is it a go?
1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas i. 15 ‘Then say no more,’ I said. ‘It's a go.’
2004 Weekly World News 2 Mar. 11/2 We've offered him the role and we're crossing our fingers. His people tell us there's a 95 percent chance it's a go.
P4. colloquial. to make a go of: to make a success of, be successful in regard to, manage (esp. in to make a go of it). Similarly to make a good, etc., go of.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > make a success of [verb (transitive)]
shift?1533
to pass muster1573
to give a good account of (something, often oneself)1601
to hit off1700
to make a job of1736
to make a do of1834
to make a go of it1836
cut1900
1836 H. M. Beauclerk in C. F. Beauclerk & H. M. Beauclerk Tales of Fashion & Reality 134 ‘They say as how he is courting Miss Laura.’ ‘Well,..I hope they'll make a go of it.’
1848 Amer. Literary Mag. Oct. 211 Give me another cigar, friend; I can't make a go of this.
1870 Janesville (Wisconsin) Gaz. 5 Aug. Try hop scotch. Perhaps you can make a go of that.
1893 Spectator (N.Y.) 13 Apr. 216/1 The National Live Stock Insurance Company, started six years ago by St. Paul business men, has apparently made a good ‘go’ of it.
1933 Sun (Baltimore) 20 Apr. 10/3 We should be glad to see any administrator make a go of the postal service.
1978 M. Sarton Reckoning xvi. 176 Of the three of us you're the one who has made a go of it as a human being.
1994 R. Hendrickson Happy Trails 105 Someone who returned East after failing to make a go of it in the West.
2010 S. Rohrer Wandering Souls ii. 52 Jarratt moved a third time, clinging to the hope that he could make a go of running a school in the Virginia backcountry.
P5. (at the) first go: at the first attempt; on the first occasion; straight away. Cf. at one go-off at go-off n. 1.
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1892 New Harmony (Indiana) Reg. 9 Sept. The machine was very restive, and at the first go tried to climb all the trees at the edge of the sidewalk.
1911 G. K. Chesterton Innocence of Father Brown xi. 293 I believe I can guess it at the first go.
1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle viii. 110 The Germans..were pretty certain of dishing Serbia at the first go.
1945 J. A. Thompson tr. H. Laxness Independent People lxvii. 494 Never let anyone hear you say you're such a blockhead as not to be able to learn three easy little verses first go.
1971 H. C. Rae Marksman i. vi. 51 He screwed her, knocked her up first go and..married her..before she could even contemplate abortion.
2005 B. O'Riain Running to stand Still vi. 126 The chaps in the pictures never admit it first go.
P6. colloquial. on (also, esp. in early use, upon) the go.
a. On the move; in (constant) motion; active or busy, esp. continuously or without respite. In later use also: in progress.
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1680 R. Hollingworth Acct. Spirits working upon Minds of Men 18 Whose heels are upon the go without any commission from the Head.
1828 Friend 15 Mar. 171/3 What with visitations to Seraphina and the superintendence of Marmaduke's establishment, she was ever on the go, and her time fully occupied.
1874 T. B. Aldrich Prudence Palfrey xiii. 216 Ever since the day we said good-by..I have been on the go.
1898 Maine Bugle July 198/2 We opened with grape and cannister [shot] and Johnnie went back; this was repeated three times, when we had them on the go and kept them going until [etc.].
1919 Princeton Alumni Weekly 8 Jan. 267/3 We have been on the go since Sept. 26.
1938 Q. Bull. Alpine Garden Soc. 6 208 At last the tents were up and supper was on the go.
1965 Harper's Bazaar Dec. 89/1 Cosmetic traveller lined with silk for girls who are on the go all day.
1991 J. Kelman Burn (1992) 151 He stared across the bar to where a conversation was on the go between some guys he knew.
2009 Post & Courier (Charleston, S. Carolina) (Nexis) 17 Nov. d1 I've always been superactive. Always on the go.
†b. Declining, deteriorating. Cf. on the turn at turn n. Phrases 3b(c). In early use also: on the verge of destruction. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > in adversity [phrase] > at the or one's worst > from a prosperous or thriving condition
for (also to, into) the worseOE
out of God's blessing into the warm sun1546
down (the) wind1600
on (also, esp. in early use, upon) the go1682
to the bad1802
1682 E. Hickeringill 2nd Pt. Hist. Whiggism 66 They did so many Irrational, Senseless, and Destructive Acts, that almost all Lay at Stake..and was just upon the go.
1727 M. Robinson Walsingham IV. 318 The good fellow is upon the go; his life's not worth six weeks' purchase.
1777 S. J. Pratt Liberal Opinions VI. cxxxii. 131 I don't know what the plague ails him, but he's certainly upon the go.
a1800 T. Bellamy Beggar Boy (1801) I. 6 No longer could she pay attention to the larder, and there daily examine that part of its stores which was somewhat—another saying of her's—‘On the go’.
a1823 R. Ayton Ess. & Sketches Char. (1825) 236 A bit of stranded fish of the flat kind—much bruised, and rather ‘on the go’.
1842 E. FitzGerald Let. 16 Aug. (1889) I. 99 As to poor England, I never see a paper, but I think with you that she is on the go.
1881 Sunday at Home 16 July 451/1 Oh, it was all pretty level at first..but she's on the go, I seen it, the last twice as she's been.
c. slang. Mildly intoxicated; tipsy. Now only in historical contexts.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > partially drunk
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semi-bousyc1460
pipe merry1542
totty1570
tipsy1577
martin-drunk1592
pleasant1596
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flustered1615
lusticka1616
well to live1619
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happy1662
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hearty1695
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mellowish1703
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funny1751
fairish1756
cherry-merry1769
in suds1770
muddy1776
glorious1790
groggified1796
well-corned1800
fresh1804
to be mops and brooms1814
foggy1816
how-come-ye-so1816
screwy1820
off the nail1821
on (also, esp. in early use, upon) the go1821
swipey1821
muggy1822
rosy1823
snuffy1823
spreeish1825
elevated1827
up a stump1829
half-cockedc1830
tightish1830
tipsified1830
half shaved1834
screwed1837
half-shot1838
squizzed1845
drinky1846
a sheet in the wind1862
tight1868
toppy1885
tiddly1905
oiled-up1918
bonkers1943
sloshed1946
tiddled1956
hickey-
1821 P. Egan Life in London ii. ii. 171 The fine old wines of the Corinthian had made him a little bit ‘on the go’.
1886 E. Lynn Linton Paston Carew II. ix. 191 ‘Ma'me Richard was on the go,’ as one of them said, when he helped to pick her up out of the gutter, and carry her dead-drunk into the back-kitchen.
1953 G. Heyer Cotillion iv. 49 ‘No, no Freddy, indeed I'm not inebriated!’ ‘Lord no, Kit! Nothing of that sort! Just a little bit on the go!’
2004 M. Gedney On 12th Day of Christmas vi. 67 ‘I suppose you were in some low inn, drinking and gambling..’. ‘Well, I was a little bit on the go,’ he admitted.
d. Moved to enthusiasm, excitement, etc.; enthused, stirred. rare.
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1843 A. Bethune Sc. Peasant's Fire-side 26 But if you can only afford to wait till you get us on the go.
1937 Poet Lore Jan. 354 Gotico. I tapped claret four times, and when I stick a man— Isidro. Oh, my God! Pugnose. What a man!..Gotico (aside). I've got them on the go.
1946 Proc. National Convent. Maritime Unions (U.S.) 39/1 We have strike committees in every single port..where our Union is represented—and the membership is really on the go, ready to give out!
e. While moving from one place to another.
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1942 El Paso (Texas) Herald-Post 2 Mar. 4/4 He eats on the go, grabs a little sleep standing on his feet.
1993 S. Stewart Ramlin Rose iii. 18 We never stopped for breakfast we had our ‘bait’ on the go, a chunk of bread and lard.
2004 W. B. McCloskey Raiders ii. xv. 211 Meals became candy bars on the go.
f. In progress; in train.
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1953 Grandview (Manitoba) Exponent 10 Sept. 4/3 The Galloping Teas started again with two books on the go.
1976 R. Berry Before forever After in A. Richards Penguin Bk. Welsh Short Stories 264 Half a dozen card schools on the go.
1995 G. Hall Dark Backward (1996) xviii. 309 He always had so many schemes on the go.
2006 Daily Mail (Nexis) 18 Nov. 26 Reg currently has eight jobs on the go.
P7. great go: see great go n. little-go: see little go n. (it's) no go: see no go phr., adj., and n.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

gon.2

Brit. /ɡəʊ/, U.S. /ɡoʊ/
Forms: 1800s– go, 1900s– goh, 1900s– goe.
Origin: A borrowing from Japanese. Etymon: Japanese go.
Etymology: < Japanese go (early 9th cent.; 1603 in Vocabulario da Lingoa de Iapam; 1830 in W. H. Medhurst Japanese and English Vocabulary, glossed ‘chess’), shortened < †wigo (mid 8th cent., now igo ; < a Middle Chinese compound; compare Chinese wéiqí wei ch'i n.).
A Japanese board game of territorial possession and capture, played with (usually black and white) stones or counters on a square board marked with intersecting lines. Cf. wei ch'i n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > other board games > [noun] > others
quek1376
quek-board1477
draughtsc1540
goose1597
mancala1687
pachisi1801
Chinese chequers1840
go1840
shogi1858
wari1866
wei ch'i1871
gobang1875
crokinole1885
Kono1895
salta1901
Snakes and Ladders1907
pegity1925
oware1929
monopoly1934
Scrabble1950
morabaraba1953
Chutes and Ladders1955
pentominos1975
Trivial Pursuit1982
1840 Chinese Repository Dec. 631 Another game called go or igo is played with small stones.
1882 E. Greey Young Amer. in Japan xx. 363 Go is the oldest game we have... It is very difficult to master the correct rules.
1911 H. F. Cheshire Handbk. Goh or Wei Chi 15 In the East proficiency in Goh is one of the best recommendations to high places.
1958 Listener 13 Nov. 786/2 The game that does seem to me to be superior to chess, in that it has both depth and simplicity, is the Japanese game of Go.
1982 J. Fuller Convergence xviii. 201 Though he was Asian only by experience, he played a fair game of Go himself.
2009 J. Sheehan Cooking Dirty (2010) 72 When the professor one day mysteriously stopped coming to the bar, I learned to play go instead.

Compounds

General attributive, as go board, go stone, etc.; also objective, as go player.
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1881 C. Glass World 483 The natives [of Japan] are passionately fond of the game [of Go], and a Go ban, or Go board, is to be found in almost every house.
1891 Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan 19 582 It was not uncommon for blind men to be skilful players at go, and one blind go player is said to have gained a victory over a prince.
1907 J. Takakusu tr. K. Togo Naval Battles Russo-Japanese War iii. 34 A flying splinter struck my right epaulette, raising a round swelling underneath..the size of a go stone.
1949 Life 2 May 10/2 The proud owner of a Japanese Go set and an avid collector of comic books.
1972 Times 5 June 14/8 Mrs Ito is a leading Japanese professional in the British Go Championships being played in London.
1987 PC Mag. 8 Dec. 576/3 The screen features a standard-size 19- by 19-line Go board.
2009 L. Morton Alien Within iv. 112 They..believe that by polishing their teeth with a white go-stone kept in the go-case where the oil is preserved, they can marry or find a new man.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

goadj.

Brit. /ɡəʊ/, U.S. /ɡoʊ/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: go v.
Etymology: < go v. With sense 1 compare earlier no go adj. With sense 2 compare earlier go-ahead adj. With sense 3 compare all systems go at system n. Phrases 3.
1. attributive. Engineering. Designating a gauge (gauge n. 10) which will pass through an object, or which an object will pass through. Frequently paired with no-go or not-go. Cf. no go adj., not-go adj.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [adjective] > specific type of limit-gauge
go1907
no go1910
not-go1917
go–no-go1938
1907 A.L.A.M. Digest Current Techn. Lit. 7 Oct. 428/2 When a Standard Screw Ring Gauge..is used as the ‘Go’ gauge for checking bolts, separate ‘Go’ gauges will not be required for the full and core diameters.
1946 Pop. Mech. Feb. 138/2 To save time,..one foreman painted two bands of color on the gauge to distinguish the ‘go’ end from the ‘no-go’ end.
2001 W. van Zwoll Hunter's Guide Ballistics 82/1 Headspace is measured with ‘go’ and ‘no go’ gauges. The ‘go’ gauge is typically .004 to .006 shorter than the ‘no go’ gauge for rimless and belted cartridges.
2. colloquial (originally U.S.). Modern, ‘with-it’; fashionable, stylish; progressive, go-ahead. Now somewhat archaic.In early use spec. with reference to an improvisatory style of jazz playing; cf. go v. 18b.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective]
in (also into) request?1574
bonfacion1584
fashional?1607
of request1613
fashionablea1627
à la mode1642
all the mode1651
modish1661
in mode1664
timeish1676
of vogue1678
voguea1695
mody1701
alamodic1753
much the mode1767
tonish1778
go1784
stylish1800
bang-up1810
tippy1810
varmint1823
up to the knocker1844
gyvera1866
OK1869
fly1879
swagger1879
doggy1885
faddy1885
fantoosh1920
voguish1927
voguey1928
à la page1930
go1937
hard1938
hip1939
down1952
swinging1958
a-go-go1960
way-in1960
yé-yé1960
trendy1962
with-it1962
go-go1963
happening1965
mod1965
funky1967
together1968
fash1977
cred1987
1937 Kappa Alpha Jrnl. Mar. 179/1 You can take it from us that Jones is really a ‘go man’ on the sax, and can hit more than one mean lick with the clarinet as well.
1942 Billboard 4 July 53/1 (advt.) Tenor Sax, Clarinet—Age 17, read well, good hot go man.
1953 Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 25 Sept. 9/7 (advt.) That ‘go girl’ takes over and starts the wildest jazz chase the world will ever know.
1962 in Amer. Speech 37 286 What is a Junior?.. A size, of course, not a matter of age! It stands for ‘Go’ in the fashion world.
1963 Time 4 Jan. 36/3 Beatniks, whose heavy black turtleneck sweaters had never looked particularly go with white tennis socks.
1964 Punch 8 July 43/1 I am not a go person.
1996 Scouting Jan. 32/1 I've never seen a hockey game or gone ice-skating before... But I'll give it a try because I'm a ‘go’ girl.
3. colloquial (originally U.S.). Chiefly in predicative use. Functioning properly; ready and prepared; fulfilling all conditions necessary to proceed.Originally with reference to devices and systems in a spacecraft.all systems go: see system n. Phrases 3.
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the world > action or operation > [adjective] > in operational condition
going1523
functional1892
operational1944
go1961
1961 N.Y. Times 6 May 8/2 Shepard—Fuel is go, 4 G, 5.5 cabin. Oxygen. All systems are go. Voice—All systems go. Trajectory okay.
1961 N.Y. Times 22 July 9/1 Roger, we are go here.
1962 Sunday Times 4 Mar. 31/8 A..better University..creatively responding to the new challenges, and good luck indeed to them, their system too is no doubt Go.
1978 L. S. Dawidowicz & D. A. Altshuler Hitler's War against Jews viii. 64 By the summer of 1939, everything was ‘go’ for the invasion of Poland.
1985 New Scientist 22 Aug. 49/1 A male [koala] was sent hurtling down a tree by a female whose ears had not signalled that she was in a go situation.
2001 B. Sheets & J. Williams Hurricane Watch 193 What happens to the hundreds of other candidate disturbances, ones in which all conditions are ‘go’, with the right water and the right winds?
2011 C. Dubbs & E. Paat-Dahlstrom Realizing Tomorrow iii. 86 Someone interrupted the meeting to announce that the Challenger had just lifted off the pad and everything was go.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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Brit. /ɡəʊ/, U.S. /ɡoʊ/
Inflections: Present tense: 1st singular and plural go; 2nd singular (archaic) goest Brit. /ˈɡəʊᵻst/, U.S. /ˈɡoʊəst/; 3rd singular goes Brit. /ɡəʊz/, U.S. /ɡoʊz/, (archaic) goeth Brit. /ˈɡəʊᵻθ/, U.S. /ˈɡoʊəθ/; past tense: 1st and 3rd singular and plural went Brit. /wɛnt/, U.S. /wɛnt/; 2nd singular (archaic) wentest Brit. /ˈwɛntᵻst/, U.S. /ˈwɛn(t)əst/; past participle: gone Brit. /ɡɒn/, U.S. /ɡɔn/, /ɡɑn/;
Forms: 1. Infinitive. a.

α. Old English gaan (rare), Old English gæ (Anglian), Old English gean (in prefixed forms, rare), Old English (Middle English early or northern) gan, Old English (probably transmission error) Middle English (1500s–1600s (archaic)) gon, Old English (Northumbrian)–Middle English (northern) gaa, Old English (Northumbrian, in prefixed forms)–Middle English (northern) gae, early Middle English gene (transmission error), early Middle English goin, Middle English ga, Middle English gane (northern), Middle English gay (north-west midlands), Middle English goon, Middle English goone, Middle English gooyn, Middle English goye, Middle English guo (south-eastern), Middle English gwon (northern), Middle English (1500s archaic) goen, Middle English (1500s–1600s archaic) gone, Middle English–1600s goo, Middle English–1700s goe, Middle English– go, late Middle English g- (prefixed, before a vowel), late Middle English gonne, 1500s gow (rare), 1500s (1600s North American) gooe, 1500s–1600s gowe (rare); English regional 1700s gu (south-western, Lancashire, and Kent), 1700s–1800s geaw (Yorkshire), 1800s geu (Devon), 1800s gie (northern), 1800s– ga (northern), 1800s– gaa (northern), 1800s– gae (northern), 1800s– gah (northern), 1800s– gau (Yorkshire), 1800s– gauh (Yorkshire), 1800s– gay (chiefly northern), 1800s– ge (Cumberland), 1800s– gea (Yorkshire), 1800s– gee (northern), 1800s– goa (northern and Lincolnshire), 1800s– goo, 1800s– gooa, 1800s– gwo (Gloucestershire); Scottish pre-1700 gaa, pre-1700 gane, pre-1700 gay, pre-1700 gea, pre-1700 goe, pre-1700 gone, pre-1700 goo, pre-1700 1700s– gae, pre-1700 1700s– go, pre-1700 1900s– ga, 1800s geae (southern), 1800s– gie (southern), 1900s– ge (Shetland), 1900s– gey; also Irish English 1800s goe (Wexford), 1900s– ga (northern), 1900s– gae (northern); also Manx English 1900s– guy. In early modern English forms gow, gowe perhaps after forms of gowa v.OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. viii. 18 Iesus..iussit ire trans fretum: ðe hælend..geheht fara uel gaa ofer luh.OE (Mercian) Rushw. Gospels: Matt. xviii. 9 Bonum est tibi cum unum oculum habentem in uitam intrare : god is ðe mid an ege hæbbende in lif gæ.OE Beowulf (2008) 1163 Þa cwom Wealhþeo forð gan under gyldnum beage.c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 913 Þe preost wass shridd tær wiþþ. To gan till godess allterr.c1300 St. Agatha (Laud) 69 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 195 Ase heo in prisone al one was, an old man þare cam gon.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 60 Þe blonderes..smerieþ þane way of helle mid hony..uor þet þe zeneȝere hine ssolde guo þe hardylaker.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 1436 Quen he [sc. Adam] was dede sone an-nane his saule forþ to hel con gane.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15034 Þe childer þat war waike To ga þat pres a-mang.?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 37 This weye is most schort for to go streyght vnto Babiloyne.c1440 (a1350) Sir Isumbras (Thornton) (1844) l. 719 His mene awaye gane gaa.c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) l. 50 Shope him to grene woode to goon.c1480 (a1400) St. Paul 315 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 38 [Paule] lewit nero in sic effray, þat he of wit ner can gay.a1500 (a1400) Sir Amadace (Adv.) (1810) l. 670 With me then schall thei gwon.c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) cvii Bothe to cum and gone.?c1510 tr. Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. Aiiv They can goen vnder the water.1567 J. Pikering Newe Enterlude Vice sig. Bijv To warre we tend to gowe.?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 388 Fand out some vther gait to gea.1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 158 There was not one But forced forth the venomd-bloud, along his sides to gone.1683 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 74 Ralph Withers desires Leave to goe home.1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green iii. 28 He..Ca'd her a Jade, and said she mucht Gae hame.1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. vii. x. 72 Why you must keep the right-hand Road, and then gu strait vorwards.1775 J. Watson Hist. Halifax 538 Ga, or Geaw, to go.1838 J. Grant Sketches London 39 Do you think, man, that ye can gae like a cripple?1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) at Shack I'll goä shack sum cherries doon.1929 Aberdeen Univ. Rev. Mar. 131 A wiz some nervish ta gae doon the road.1980 F. Dobson Fungus 45 Fungus reckoned 'e'd gooa an' scar' the mice i' the owd maltkiln buildin'.2012 N.Y. Times 8 May (Late ed.) d4/1 They would like to go for a drink.

β. English regional (Yorkshire) 1600s yeaud. 1683 G. Meriton York-shire Dialogue in Pure Nat. Dial. 11 I saw him yeaud upth Town, And seay I think hee's gean to fetch him down.

γ. U.S. regional (in African-American usage) 1900s– gone. 1949 L. D. Turner Africanisms in Gullah Dial. 275 I have to gone down in there and get it out.2008 D. L. Fordham in True Stories Black South Carolina 44 He call to my ma to gone in the house.

b. Inflected infinitive Old English gane (rare), Old English (rare)–early Middle English gande, Old English–early Middle English ganne, Middle English gonne, Middle English guonne (south-eastern), late Middle English gone. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) ii. 16 Ðær ic inne sæt ða gearo to ganne.OE Lambeth Psalter cxviii. 101 Ab omni uia mala prohibui pedes meos : fram ælcum wege yfelum ic forbead to gane fet mine.a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 127 Se ðe net þe to gonne mid him twa milen, ga mid him þrie.c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Royal) (1934) 11 Þe weie þat ich am in bigunnen to ganne.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 226 Zaynte pauel wyþ-nimþ þe yonge wyfmen wodewen þet were ydele and bysye to guonne an to comene ganglinde.1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Norbert (1977) l. 2672 He happed into þe ȝerd to gone Late at eue. 2. Present indicative. a. 1st singular.

α. early Old English gau (Mercian, in prefixed forms), Old English gaæ (Northumbrian), Old English gae (Northumbrian), Old English gæ (Northumbrian), Old English (Middle English early or northern) ga, Old English (Mercian)–Middle English (northern) gaa, Middle English gay (northern), Middle English gon, Middle English guo (south-eastern), Middle English–1600s goe, Middle English–1600s (1800s English regional) goo, Middle English– go, 1600s gor (before a vowel, rare); Scottish pre-1700 goe, pre-1700 1700s– go, pre-1700 1900s– ga, 1700s– gae. OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: John xvi. 5 Nunc uado ad eum : nu ic gaæ..to him.OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxi. 30 Hlaford, ic ga [OE Lindisf. ic gae; L. eo].c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) 703 Igripe ha me eanes, ne ga i neauer mare þrefter o grene.a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 88 Ich go lihtliche ouer, ne do bute nempnie ham.c1300 St. Edmund King (Harl.) 63 in F. J. Furnivall Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 72 Wiþ þe ic go in eche stede.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 25459 Þus-gatis on erþ I. ga.c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 1671 I sall grant, or I ga [a1500 Trin. Dublin gay], with a gud will.c1500 Melusine (1895) 174 I goo..putte my peple in aray.1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. i. f. 3 I goe to it as the Torteise to the inchauntment.1650 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans 41 Farewell! I goe to sleep.1696 T. Dilke Lover's Luck iii. 17 When I goo a fetch Mess a Cream..yo little thinken what we don.1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 573 I look to the West, when I gae to rest.1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 354 They make such a trade wi' me when I goo to see 'em.1934 D. Thomas Let. 2 May (1987) 122 I go nuts and you go gaga.1992 I. Pattison More Rab C. Nesbitt Scripts 11 Where you go, I go.

β. 1800s– goes (regional and nonstandard); English regional 1800s– goas, 1800s– goos. 1841 H. D. Miles Dick Turpin xii. 132 So, do you wait on the mounter, vile I goes in.1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) 161 A goos Hinckley Tuesdays.1889 M. Peacock Taales fra Linkisheere 18 I goas to druggister's to get sum'ats fer a bad hand I hev.1928 Daily Express 11 Sept. 7 Being nosey, I goes to 'ave a look.1967 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1991) II. 695/1 I goes shopping on Mondays.1988 R. Hemley Looking for Kin in All you can Eat (1990) 59 One night, Dewitt has to stay overtime, so I goes cruising alone.2006 C. Tate et al. Am I Bovvered? 1st Ser. Episode 6. 140 And he was like, ‘don't start giving me grief,’ and I goes, ‘well you'd better stop vexing me then.’

γ. U.S. regional (in African-American usage) and Caribbean 1900s– gone. 1938 in G. W. Chandler Coming Through (2008) 109 After the storm I gone over there in boat 'cause they goin' deputise anybody they got belief in.1975 T. Callender It so Happen 104 So I gone and call this young woman, and she get out o' the bus and walk back with me and ax me if I know what the pastor want with she.1980 M. Thelwell Harder they Come (1988) x. 234 I pray and pray..but everytime I gone to bed Ivan face full up me eyes.

b. 2nd singular.

α. early Old English gęst (Mercian), Old English gæstu (Northumbrian, with personal pronoun affixed), Old English (early Middle English south-west midlands) gæst, late Old English (Kentish, in prefixed forms)–Middle English (southern) gest, early Middle English geast (south-west midlands), Middle English gestou (south-western, with personal pronoun affixed). OE (Northumbrian) Rushw. Gospels: John xiii. 36 Domine quo uadis : drihten hwider gæstu.OE St. Andrew (Corpus Cambr.) in F. G. Cassidy & R. N. Ringler Bright's Old Eng. Gram. & Reader (1971) 218 For hwan gæst þu swa, buton wæstme þines gewinnes?c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Bodl.) (1934) 42 Hit were þi gein..þet tu, þe geast [c1225 Royal gest] unblescet efter blesceunge, ga & heie godd al-mihti.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13195 Ȝif [þu] gæst him a leoð.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 129 Huannes comst þou? Huyder gest þou?c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 1811 Elles þow gest a torn. ▸ a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xiii. 9 Ȝif þou to þe left sid gest: I schall holde þe riȝt side.

β. Old English (Northumbrian)–early Middle English gast, Middle English gostow (with personal pronoun affixed), Middle English–1500s gooste, Middle English–1600s goost, Middle English–1600s gost, Middle English–1600s goste. OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Luke xii. 58 Cum autem uadis cum aduersario tuo ad principem : miððy uutedlice ðu gast..mið wiðerworde ðinum to aldormen.c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4666 Hu ferr þu gast. Vt off þe rihhte weȝȝe.a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 85 Ic ðe wile wissin on ðese weiȝe ðe ðu nu gost.c1330 Sir Orfeo (Auch.) (1966) 129 Whider þou gost, ichil wiþ þe, & whider y go þou schalt wiþ me.c1405 (c1380) G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 56 Thow goost biforn.?a1425 Constit. Masonry (Royal 17 A.i) l. 677 in J. O. Halliwell Early Hist. Freemasonry in Eng. (1844) 37 Uche fote that thou gost then. ▸ a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) 1353 Whidir thou gooste, Kepe it secret.a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 210 Make not kepere of thy reame only oone man, whan thou goste in anothyr Place.c1530 Interl. Beauties Women A vi Yet worship I the ground that thou gost on.1532 T. More Confut. Tyndales Answere i. p. liii God wolde saye to Tyndale: I haue brought ye in to thys world which thou doste now corrupte, and I haue made the crystendom whyche thou gooste aboute to dystroye.a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iv. vi. sig. G.iij But when gost thou for him?1600 T. Heywood Edward IV sig. C6 My daughter Nell shall pop a possell vpon thee when thou gost to bed.1656 Wit & Drollery 44 I wish thou gost more boldly on.

γ. Old English gæs (Mercian). OE (Mercian) Rushw. Gospels: Matt. v. 26 Non exies inde donec reddas nouissimum quadrantem : ne gæs þu ut þonan ær þon ðu agefe þone næhstu feorþan dæl.

δ. Old English gaæs (Northumbrian), Old English gaes (Northumbrian), late Middle English goys (northern), 1500s–1700s (1800s– chiefly regional) goes; Scottish pre-1700 gais, pre-1700 gays, pre-1700 gois, pre-1700 goys. In Old English form gaes interpreted as disyllabic (see discussion in etymology, and contrast gæs at section 2bγ. ).OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. viii. 19 Sequar te quocumque ieris : ic fylgo ðe..sua huider ðu færes uel gaes.OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: John xiii. 36 Domine, quo uadis : drihten huidir gaæs ðu?c1480 (a1400) St. Machor 465 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 14 Quhare þu gays, wil I ga.a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 109 Thou goys ouer the corne! Gyb.a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xiii. 135 Thus late as thou goys, What wyll men suppos? ▸ ?a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 207 We sall gar scale our sculis all the to scorne, And stane the vp the calsay quhair thow gais.a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) ii. x. 65 Quhy gois thou mad?a1540 (c1460) G. Hay tr. Bk. King Alexander 121 Thow may vs leid quhair ever thou gais.1579 J. Merbecke Holie Hist. King Dauid 17 The Lord keepe and defend thee where so ere thou goes.a1662 E. Burrough Memorable Wks. (1672) 292 Then thou goes on, and wouldst justifie thy ignorant saying.1714 R. Smith Poems 35 Thou him rails where e're thou goes.1795 Life John Metcalf 22 Confound thee! thou always goes to the gate heel, instead of the head.1835 Plantagenet II. v. i. 54 Thee goes tick—tick—tick—tick—tick—and is never up to time!1837 R. M. Bird Nick of Woods I. 51 Thee brings bad luck wheresoever thee goes.1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. 100/2 If thou goes out to-night it will perish thee.1914 Hist. Morris County I. 487 Thee will find such people and places wherever thee goes.

ε. Old English gaas (Northumbrian, in prefixed forms), Middle English gas, Middle English gase, Middle English goos, Middle English gos, Middle English gose. OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Mark xvi. 1 Si in uicum introieris : gif on lond ðu gegaas uel geongas.] a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Titus) (1963) 18 Let iwurðe god mon ne Gas [c1230 Corpus Cambr. geast] tu nawt te ane.c1330 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 35 Þou no wat neuer y-wis In world whare þou wendes No wat gat þatow gas.c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) 496 Eueri fote þat þou gas, Þyn Angel poynteþ hit vch a pas.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 27482 If þou man gas þin offrand to mak.a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. x. 97 Who owe this child thou gose withall?a1500 (a1400) Ipomedon (Chetham) (1889) 1159 To morowe thou goos yf þou haue quarte [emended in ed. to querte].a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ix. 88 If thou here any saghes sere..Of that lad, where that thou gase.

ζ. late Middle English–1500s goeste, late Middle English–1500s goist, late Middle English–1500s goyst, late Middle English– goest, 1500s goiste, 1500s goyste. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Psalms ciii. 3 My Lord God... Which settist a cloude thi stiyng; which goest on the fetheris of wyndis.c1425 How Good Wife taught her Daughter (Huntington) (1948) 161 When þou goest be þe weie, goe þou noght to faste.c1450 ( St. George (Egerton) in R. Hamer Three Lives from Gilte Legende (1978) 66 Now thou goest to be devowred of a dragon.a1500 Disciplina Clericalis in Western Reserve Univ. Bull. (1919) 22 14 If thow bihold stidefastly into god, althynges shuln be prosperous to the wherever thow goest.1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xxviii. C I..wyll kepe the where so euer thou goest.1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Andria iv. iii, in Terence in Eng. 77 Whereabout goest thou?1613 T. Heywood Brazen Age i. 178 I'le lackey by the wheresoe're thou goest.1699 T. Boston Soliloquy Art of Man-fishing in Distinguishing Char. True Believers (1773) 37 When thou goest to preach in planted congregations.1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) ii. 11 Whan tha goest to tha melking o' tha Kee.1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 195 As thou goest a walking.1901 R. Kipling Kim ii. 40 ‘And whither goest thou?’ said the woman, handing him the half of a cake from a greasy package.1949 D. L. Sayers tr. Dante Inferno (1950) ii. 80 Heaven hath a noble Lady, who doth take Ruth of this man thou goest to disensnare.2002 S. J. Gould Struct. Evolutionary Theory viii. 683 The Biblical rule of Naomi and Ruth: ‘whither thou goest, I will go’.

η. late Middle English goeþ, late Middle English goote, late Middle English gothe. a1425 Milicia Christi in Jrnl. Warburg & Courtauld Inst. (1982) 45 App. iv. 52 Þe þridde tyme he axeþ woder þou gost, þat is þou goeþ to þe dredeful and ferful dome.c1450 in W. R. Dawson Leechbk. (1934) 166 Take the Juyse of planteyn..and lay apon the eyen when þow goote to þi bedd.a1500 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 205 O Swete angell..thow gothe betwix hym and me.

c. 3rd singular.

α. early Old English gætþ (in prefixed forms), early Old English gęþ, Old English gęð (in prefixed forms), Old English–early Middle English gæþ, Old English–early Middle English gæð, Old English–early Middle English geð, late Old English gæd, late Old English ged, late Old English gieþ (Kentish), early Middle English geað (chiefly south-west midlands), early Middle English ȝeað (south-west midlands, perhaps transmission error), early Middle English geoth (south-western), early Middle English geoþ (south-western), early Middle English gethþ, Middle English geeþ, Middle English geȝ (southern), Middle English get, Middle English geþ, Middle English geth, Middle English gethe, Middle English gez (south-western). OE Beowulf (2008) 455 Gæð a wyrd swa hio scel.OE West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) xxi. 3 Þu nast..hwyder he gæþ [OE Lindisf. gaað, c1200 Hatton geð; L. uadat].a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 29 Hwet is scrift bute..habben in his þonke þe he nule nefre mare eft ȝe don þeo sunnen þe he geð to scrifte fore.c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) 540 Ah hwa se o bote ne geað ne schal he beon i borhen.c1300 Holy Cross (Laud) 180 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 6 A grene wei þov schalt wiende, Þat gez euene riȝt puyr est, and to parays gez þat on ende.c1300 St. Bartholomew (Laud) 63 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 368 Opriȝt he geoth [a1325 Corpus Cambr. geþ] and euene i-novȝ.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 56 In þise manere geþ þe tyme.c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 106 Ase al þat hys here By souedaȝes geþ, Of senne alle manere Seue deuelen prynces beþ. ▸ a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 598 So it [sc. the water] geth Out of the See.c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 243 Schal þan þe soule soffren any peyne When þat the soule out of þe body geth?a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 2042 Se, where the kyng gethe.

β. Old English gaeþ (Mercian), Old English gaeð (Northumbrian), Middle English gayt, Middle English goat (south-western), Middle English goet, Middle English goeþ, Middle English goit, Middle English goiþ, Middle English goithe, Middle English goitht, Middle English gooyth, Middle English goyt, Middle English goyþ, Middle English–1500s goyth, Middle English–1500s goythe, Middle English–1600s goethe, Middle English–1600s goith, Middle English–1600s (1700s– archaic) goeth; also Scottish pre-1700 goith, pre-1700 goithe. In Old English forms gaeþ, gaeð interpreted as disyllabic (see discussion in etymology, and contrast gæþ, gæð at section 2cα. ).OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xxvi. 24 Filius..hominis uadit sicut scriptum est de illo : sunu..monnes gaeð sua awritten is of ðæm.OE (Mercian) Rushw. Gospels: Matt. vii. 21 Ipse intrabit in regnum caelorum : se uel he gaeþ in heofuna rice.c1250 in K. Reichl Relig. Dichtung im Eng. Hochmittelalter (1973) 400 Þat þouste of is feder Herodes ful þincke, Goit forte benne ant treues alle þinke.a1275 St. Margaret (Trin. Cambr.) l. 222 in A. S. M. Clark Seint Maregrete & Body & Soul (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 77 Wouder [read wonder] wou ho goet. ▸ c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) 1 Pet. v. 8 Ȝoure aduersarie..as a roryng lyoun goith aboute.a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) John x. 4 He goith bifor hem.c1450 MS Douce 52 in Festschrift zum XII. Neuphilologentage (1906) 56 Pryde goyth [c1475 Rawl. goat] byfore, and shame comyth after.a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iii. Prol. 138 By..Onkouth costis, and mony wilsum strandis Now goith our barge.1545 in State Papers Henry VIII (1849) X. 487 I have written thryse to you, twyse by the ordynarye staffette that goith weekelye to Andwerpe.1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry f. 49v Who goith a borrowing, goith a sorrowing.1600 J. Sanderson Travels in Mariner's Mirror 76 (1990) 44 He keepeth the caikes, and always steereth when the Great Turke goethe uppon the water.1680 G. Savile Let. 5 July in H. C. Foxcroft Life & Lett. G. Savile (1898) I. vii. 228 To drink a bottle with Mr. Meredith, to find out in his ale upon what grounds he goeth, and who sets him on.1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. i. 243 It will occasion it oft-times to flash in the Pan a great while before it goeth off.1838 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights (1839) I. ii. 107 He knoweth not..whither she goeth, nor what she doth.1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. i. 338 Perfay all goeth more than right.1905 E. Phillpotts Secret Woman iii. ii. 249 The man goeth in a mist, an' his landmarks fail him.1992 B. D'Amato Hard Luck xiv. 155 Pride goeth before a fall.

γ. Old English gaað (Northumbrian), Old English–early Middle English gað, Old English–Middle English gaþ, early Middle English gad, early Middle English gatȝ, early Middle English goð, Middle English god, Middle English goht, Middle English gooht, Middle English gooþ, Middle English gooþe, Middle English got, Middle English goþ, Middle English goþe, Middle English gothȝ, Middle English goy, Middle English guoþ (south-eastern), Middle English–1500s gooth, Middle English–1500s goothe, Middle English–1500s gothe, Middle English–1600s goth, 1700s go'th; English regional 1800s– go'th (Devon); Scottish pre-1700 goth. OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xii. 43 Inmundus spiritus..ambulat per loca arida : ðe unclæne gaast..gaað uel geeade ðerh stowa dryia.lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough interpolation) anno 656 Fra Raggewilh v mile to þe rihte æ þe gað to Ælm & to Wisebece.c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1224 Oxe gaþ o clofenn fot.?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 11 Þige þarof anne cuppan fulle on ærne morge and oþerne an niht, þann he gad to bedde.a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 139 Alswa ðe lyon ðe gað abuten þe dier hem to forswoleȝen, swa deð deuel abuten ȝew.a1300 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 1 Nou goth sonne vnder wod..Nou goþ sonne vnder tre.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 3051 Now goþ þat wrecche wille of wone.c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Squire's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 269 On the daunce he gooth [c1415 Corpus Oxf. goþ, c1415 Lansd. goþe, c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 goth] with Canacee.a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) 827 It goht [v.r. goth] ful streite and scharp or I it haue.1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. cc.iv This holy prophete gooth shortely on all these.1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng iii. f. 3 The pasture..that he gothe in.a1629 T. Wilson tr. J. de Montemayor Diana in Revue Hispanique (1920) 50 410 If happily Ismenia went to the feelde, after her goth Alanio.1707 E. Taylor Meditation: My Beloved is Mine in Poems (1960) 227 But oh! the Odds in th' purchase price down laid: Thyselfe's thy Price, myselfe my mony go'th.1891 R. P. Chope Dial. Hartland, Devonshire 20 All the rain avore Midzummer Go'th into the farmer's puss.1892 in S. Hewett Peasant Speech Devon Pref. p. ix There 'e go'th, bwoys! a lashing gert shaver!1986 J. Downes Dict. Devon Dial. 21 Go'th, goes (goeth).

δ. Old English gæs (Northumbrian), Old English gęs (Northumbrian), Middle English ges; English regional 1800s– gez (Cumberland). OE (Northumbrian) Rushw. Gospels: Mark xiv. 21 Filius quidem hominis uadit : sunu ec soðlice monnes gæs.OE (Northumbrian) Rushw. Gospels: John xiii. 3 A deo exiuit et ad deum uadit : from gode foerde & to gode gęs uel færes.?a1300 Maximian (Digby) 3 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 92 Hic ou tellen con Of helde al hou hit ges [rhyme pes, les, wes].a1450 ( in J. Kail 26 Polit. Poems (1904) 9 Set mesure in euene assise, The riȝte weye as lawe ges [rhyme pes]. 1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) 38/1 He gez wid his feet breàdd side furst.

ε. Old English gaæs (Northumbrian), Old English (Northumbrian)–Middle English gaes, Middle English gais, Middle English gayse, Middle English gois, Middle English goys, Middle English goyse, Middle English– goes, 1500s goese; English regional 1800s gwoes (Lancashire), 1800s– goas (Yorkshire), 1900s– gaes (Lancashire); Scottish pre-1700 gais, pre-1700 gayis, pre-1700 gays, pre-1700 geathis, pre-1700 gois, pre-1700 goys, pre-1700 1700s– gaes, 1700s– goes. In Old English form gaes interpreted as disyllabic (see discussion in etymology, and contrast gæs at section 2cδ. ). In Older Scots form geathis (see quot. ?a1600) after the rhyme-word cleathis (= claes).OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. Pref. Quocumque spiritus ibat ibant : swa hwidir gaas[t] gaæs hea gæð.OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. viii. 9 Dico huic uade et uadit : ic cueðo ðissum..gaæ & gaes.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12914 Als bedel gais be-for iustis.c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 3016 [Darius] Gaes him on to granton, & graithes þare his tentis.1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. eviv Att huntyng..when he goys.a1500 (a1400) Sir Eglamour (Cambr.) (1844) l. 98 Mornyng to hys bedd he gays. ▸ ?a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 39 Sum superspendit gois to his bed.1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. iv. 11 Within the watter in ane bosum gais.?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 389 He tackis; A scheip hewit clock to cover his cleathis; But lad or boy to Leyt he geathis.1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. E2v How goes the time?c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 475 Schir Johne Hurry..gois throw the Marques of Montross watches.1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. ii He kames his hair, indeed, and gaes right snug.1794 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 448 To Vulcan then Apollo gaes, To get a frosty calker.1872 J. Hartley Yorks. Ditties 2nd Ser. 106 He goas on th' strap, an' happens to be a month behund.a1930 N. Munro On Corporal Punishment in B. D. Osborne & R. Armstrong Erchie & Jimmy Swan (1993) i. xx. 95 If Alick's schoolmaister gaes on thinkin' he can, I'll gae oot some day to his school and maybe get the jyle for't.2005 Woman & Home July 87/6 A smooth double chocolate truffle that you can nuke so it goes all gooey.

ζ. Old English (Northumbrian)–Middle English gaas, Old English (Northumbrian)–Middle English gas, Middle English gace, Middle English gase, Middle English goos, Middle English gose, Middle English gosse, Middle English gotȝ, Middle English–1700s gos, 1600s go's; English regional 1700s gaas (Westmorland), 1800s goos, 1800s– gaz (Cumberland); Scottish pre-1700 geas. OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xv. 17 Omne quod in os intrat in uentrem uadit : eghuelc þæt in muð inngaas in womb gaas.OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: John xi. 31 Quia uadit ad monumentum : forðon gaas [OE Rushw. gas] to ðæm byrgenne.a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Titus) (1963) 114 Win schedes, te smel leaues, Ah water Gas al somen ut.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1970 Þar gas [Fairf. gase] na ransun bot liue for lijf.?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 147 He gos to S. Deny.c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 325 Alle þat glydez and gotz and gost of lyf habbez.c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 117 Right by the hoper wol I stande..and se how that the corn gas In.a1425 (?a1350) Gospel of Nicodemus (BL Add. 32578) (1907) l. 64 After ihesu forthe he gace [rhyme place].c1475 (a1400) Sir Amadace (Taylor) in J. Robson Three Early Eng. Metrical Romances (1842) 30 Sone a-gayn gose he.?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 379 To that bischop in he geas.a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) ii. vi. 78 Then the world go's hard When Clifford cannot spare his Friends an oath.1640 Wits Recreations sig. I3 Alwaies to the wall the weakest go's.1700 J. Harrington's Oceana 242 He gos about to take better aim.1785 W. Hutton Bran New Wark 454 He gaas net to kirk.1864 Ld. Tennyson Northern Farmer: Old Style vii, in Enoch Arden, etc. 131 But Parson a comes an' a goos.1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) 38/1 Gaz, C[entral parts]., N[orth].,..goes.

η. 1900s– go (regional). 1922 A. E. Gonzales Black Border Gloss. 304 Go,..goes.1933 M. K. Rawlings South Moon Under 52 Seems like ever' thing go along better when you do what's natural.1995 M. Collins Colour of Forgetting 13 He go look like he don't know.

θ. Caribbean 2000s– gone. 2000 I. Khan in N. Hopkinson Whispers from Cotton Tree Root 119 This man can't make a livin at the trade no mo. Soon as he stop work, he gone by he son and he say, ‘Well boy..now is your turn to take care of me.’

d. Plural.Since the Middle English period also used for the 2nd singular with ye or you (originally polite form); see esp. section η. (go is now the standard form).

α. Old English gaað, Old English gaþ, Old English–early Middle English gað, late Old English gath, late Old English (in prefixed forms)–early Middle English gad, early Middle English god, early Middle English gothþ, early Middle English goð, Middle English gaþe (in copy of Old English charter), Middle English gooþ, Middle English goþ, Middle English goþe, Middle English gothe, Middle English guoþ (south-eastern), Middle English–1500s gooth, Middle English–1500s goth, 1800s– go'th (English regional (Devon)). eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter: Canticles & Hymns (1965) vi. 20 (11) In lumine iacula tua ibunt, in splendore fulgoris armorum tuorum : in lehte scotunge ðine gað in birhtu legite wepna ðinra.OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Luke ii. 3 Ibant omnes..singuli in suam ciuitatem : gaað alle..ða syndrigo uel ælsyndrio in his ceastra.c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Royal) (1934) 37 Swa ich habbe ablend ham, þat ha blindlunge gað.?c1250 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Egerton) 347 in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 181 Þos god un-ieþe to-ȝeanes þe cliue aȝean þe heȝe hulle.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 34 Alle guoþ þrin, uor to lyerni. ▸ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 403 They fiȝteþ better..Whan þey gooþ þan whan þei rideþ.c1500 God spede Plough (Lansd.) l. 73 in W. W. Skeat Pierce Ploughman's Crede (1873) 71 Prestis that goth to rome.1507 A. Chertsey tr. Honorius Augustodunensis Lucydarye (de Worde) sig. C.iv Ye soules of them the whiche dyeth in one onely mortall synne or many gooth in to the depnes of hell.1865 ‘N. Hogg’ Poet. Lett. (ed. 5) 37 Us rests a bit, and then go'th vore.

β. Old English gæþ (Mercian), Old English gæð, Old English geæð (Northumbrian), Middle English geþ. OE (Northumbrian) Liturgical Texts (Durham Ritual) in A. H. Thompson & U. Lindelöf Rituale Ecclesiae Dunelmensis (1927) 92 Ibunt directę promissiones : geæð girihto gihato.OE (Mercian) Rushw. Gospels: Matt. xiii. 49 Exibunt angeli et separabunt malos de medio iustorum : & þonne gæþ englas & asceadeþ yfle of midle soðfestra.c1225 ( Ælfric Gram. (Worcester) 40 Geþ [OE St. John's Oxf. gað].?c1335 (a1300) Land of Cokaygne 145 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 148 Hi..geþ to har collacione, A wel fair processione.

γ. Old English gæeð (Northumbrian, in prefixed forms), Old English gaeþ (Mercian), early Middle English gaed (in copy of Old English charter), Middle English goiþ, Middle English goithe, Middle English goyth, Middle English–1500s (1800s– archaic) goeth, 1500s goith. In Old English form gaeþ interpreted as disyllabic (see discussion in etymology, and contrast gæþ, gæð at section 2dβ. ). In later use at least partly based on a misinterpretation of the 3rd singular present indicative goeth (see section 2cβ. ) as a more general archaic present tense form.OE (Mercian) Rushw. Gospels: Matt. xv. 19 De corde exeunt cogitationes male : of heorta ut gaeþ geþohtas yfele.a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 162 Þese arterijs goiþ..to þe lyuere & ȝeueþ him vertu ful myche & makiþ defiynge.1423–4 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1423 §54. m. 30 Provydyng evir more, that thei goeth unto the koyne.a1486 Ordinances Chivalry in Archaeologia (1900) 57 39 Then þe vj Gentill men goyth un to þe tellws and do on theyr helm'.1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection Pref. sig. Ai Al christians goeth this pilgrymage.a1553 Certayne Causes Decaye Eng. in Four Supplications (1871) 97 So many mouthes goith to motton, whiche causeth motton to be deare.1562 Certayn Serm. preached in Lincs. in H. Latimer 27 Serm. ii. f. 66 They bear the swynge, all thynges goeth after theyr myndes. 1859 Yale Lit. Mag. June 291 He asketh her to the concert, they goeth, heavy rain cometh on.1870 M. M. Pomeroy Nonsense 269 He says come here, and they goeth—and go there, and they cometh!1889 Cincinnati Lancet-Clinic 24 Aug. 195/2 Whence they [sc. the winds that blow in our temperate regions] come and whither they goeth no man knoweth.1921 Nebraska Blue Print May 22 A certain tribe, by name Engineers, dwelleth at the University of Nebraska. They goeth down into the north end of the campus and there secludeth themselves from the world.2001 High Country News 26 Mar. 7/1 They are flummoxed. They know not whether they cometh or goeth.

δ. Old English (Northumbrian)–Middle English gaas, Old English (Northumbrian)–Middle English gas, Middle English gase, Middle English gos, Middle English gose, Middle English gosh (transmission error); Scottish pre-1700 gos. OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Mark vi. 10 Quocumque introieritis in domum illic manete : sua hwider uel suahuælc gie gaas in hus ðer wunað.OE (Northumbrian) Rushw. Gospels: Mark vi. 11 Exeuntes inde excutite puluerem de pedibus uestris : mið ðy ge gas ðona scæcas uel drygas ða asca uel ðæt dust of fotum iowrum.c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) 2800 To her wille an hunting hij gos, To chace þe hert & þe ros.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 13106 Messels er hale, cripels gas [Trin. Cambr. go] right.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6822 Þam..þat til wikcud dedes gaas [Trin. Cambr. gos].?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 4 Thurgh þe land of Hungary men gase to a cytee þat es called Chippron.a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 108 Sich wryers and wragers Gose to and fro For to crak.1667 in H. Paton Rep. Laing MSS (1914) I. 357 I hier the king's affairs gos vere well in Ingland.

ε. Old English gæs (Northumbrian). OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xiii. 49 Exibunt angeli : gæs englas.

ζ. Old English gaes (Northumbrian), 1500s goese, 1600s (1800s– regional) goes, 1800s gwoes (English regional (Gloucestershire)); Scottish pre-1700 gais, pre-1700 gaise, pre-1700 gays, pre-1700 gois, pre-1700 goys, pre-1700 1700s– gaes. In Old English form gaes interpreted as disyllabic (see discussion in etymology, and contrast gæs at section 2dε. ).OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. Pref. Uae..qui ambulant post spiritum suum : wæ ðæm..ða ðe gaes æfter gaast hiora.OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xxv. 46 Ibunt hi in supplicium aeternum : gaes ðas in tintergo ece.1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 758 Thai..As wood bestis amang the fyr than gays.?1507 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 94 One to the ded gois all estatis.?1555 Ld. Morley tr. Petrarch Tryumphes sig. B.ivv I suppose That twayne suche louers as together goese In all the worlde were harde to fynde.1599 A. Hume Hymnes sig. D1 The labowrers..downe to their houses gaise.1671 J. Baltharpe Straights Voy. 24 In this Road over Board they goes.1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess ii. 70 The lasses bidding do, an' o'er they gaes.1803 T. F. Dibdin Hist. Cheltenham 335 When thauy be zick and like to die, O thether gwoes my dog and I.1825 Ork. & Zet. Chron. 28 Feb. 24 Doun gaes the men to bouna the boats.1894 G. A. Henty Dorothy's Double I. 132 They goes out looking red in the face, and in a regular paddy.1941 F. Bryan in J. F. Dobie et al. Texian Stomping Grounds 17 Yes suh, them high-yaller gals sho' do lack to heah yo' eyes click, when they goes passin' by.1984 C. Kightly Country Voices viii. 202 They goes though this chawling machine first.?2004 Makkin yer Voice heard in Sc. Parl. in Sc. Corpus Texts & Speech Whiles committees gaes on fack-findin visits til places that is relevant tae their wark.

η. Old English (before personal pronoun)–Middle English (early or northern) ga, early Middle English gan, Middle English gaa (northern), Middle English goen, Middle English goon, Middle English–1500s gon, Middle English–1500s (1600s archaic) gone, Middle English–1600s goo, Middle English–1700s goe, Middle English– go, 1500s goone, 1500s–1600s gooe; English regional 1600s geay (Yorkshire), 1800s– ga (northern); Scottish pre-1700 goe, pre-1700 1700s– gae, pre-1700 1700s– go, pre-1700 1900s– ga. OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) v. 20 Buton eower rihtwisnyss mare sy þonne þæra writera & sundorhalgena ne ga ge on heofonan rice.OE West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) vi. 68 Drihten, to hwam ga we [L. ad quem ibimus]?c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 11945 Godess þeowwess gan onn himm.c1225 (?c1200) Sawles Warde (Bodl.) (1938) 20 Ȝef we hire haldeð þenne ga we sikerliche.a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1687 Þe beres..þe gon most grisli to eche gomes siȝt.c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 771 As ye goon by the weye, Ye shapen yow to talen.c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 459 How þat ȝe ga sa..grete gud dame?a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 129 With all other rentis and thyngis which gone out, or may gone out, of the forsaid lond.?c1500 Killing of Children (Digby) l. 380 In ony place wher ye goo or Ryde.1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes B v b/1 They yt goone on pylgrymage.1611 C. Tourneur Atheist's Trag. (new ed.) i. sig. C2v If you goe to buffets among the Boyes, they'l giue you one.1627 Bp. J. Hall David's Psalms ix All that gone Through daughter Sions beauteous gate.1683 G. Meriton York-shire Dialogue in Pure Nat. Dial. 2 Bed it Strangly, with good clean Streay, And see it lye'th sell down before we geay.1721 A. Ramsay Ode to Mr. F in Wks. (1944) I. 222 Frisking to the Fields they gae.1869 A. C. Gibson Folk-speech Cumberland Gloss. 219 They ga rakin aboot widoot ayder eerand or aim.1912 W. McCay In Land of Wonderful Dreams 4 Feb. in Little Nemo 1905–1914 (2000) 333/2 These birds go a mile a second.1999 Fortean Times 4 July 21/3 UFOs..are going to come crashing to earth next January 1st when their computers go on the fritz!

3. Present subjunctive. a. Singular Old English gaa, Old English gaę (Northumbrian, in prefixed forms), Old English gæ (Northumbrian, in prefixed forms), Old English gea (rare), Old English–Middle English ga, Middle English gon, Middle English gone, Middle English guo (south-eastern), Middle English–1500s goo, Middle English–1600s goe, Middle English– go; Scottish pre-1700 gane, pre-1700 1800s ga, 1700s–1800s gae. In Older Scots form gane probably inferred from the infinitive form gane (see section 1aα. ).OE (Northumbrian) Rushw. Gospels: John xvi. 7 Expedit uobis ut ego uadam : bihofað uel nedðarf is iow þætte ic gaa.OE Beowulf (2008) 1394 Ga þær he wille.OE Laws of Cnut (Nero) ii. xxxv. 338 Þone gebuge he hengenne & þær gebide, oð ðæt he ga to Godes ordale.a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 21 Þe wrecche sunfulle ne elde nawiht þet he ne ga to bote þe wile he mei.c1300 Life & Martyrdom Thomas Becket (Harl. 2277) (1845) 1316 This cas ȝe mote amendi, hou so hit evere go.c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 155 Loke þat þou ne go nauȝt onder Þorȝ wantrokynge.c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xii. l. 200 Go ich to helle, go ich to heuene, ich shal nouht [go] myn one!a1450 (?a1390) J. Mirk Instr. Parish Priests (Claud.) (1974) 543 Do as I the say, Lest thow go out of þe way.c1480 (a1400) St. Mary of Egypt l. 256 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 303 Abyd & blyse me, ore þu gane.a1500 in A. Zettersten Middle Eng. Lapidary (1968) 35 Yf he go to bataylle.., he shulde loke on hire whenne the sonne riseth.1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca Whyche yf it goo ouer a beastes backe, he shall be lame in the chyne.1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 373 Quhat gait that euir it ga.1627 M. Drayton Elegies in Battaile Agincourt 186 These Dialls.., Whose Snayly motion of the moouing hand, (Although it goe) yet seeme to me to stand.1796 F. Jacson Plain Sense (ed. 2) III. 10 I shall desire that she go to bed.1806 R. Jamieson Pop. Ballads I. 352 Sonse fa' Bobbin John; Want an' wae gae by him.1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess vi. 131 All good go with thee!1917 Public Utilities Rep. e. 856 Two additional terminal charges are included in the rehaul, whether it go on as paper or as pulp wood.1994 O. Clark Diary 6 Nov. (1998) 363 I insisted she go with him to the next village towards Rhodos. b. Plural. Old English gaa (Northumbrian), Old English gaæ (Northumbrian, in prefixed forms), Old English gae (Northumbrian), Old English gæ (Northumbrian), Old English gæn (Mercian), Old English gann (in prefixed forms, rare), Old English gę (Northumbrian), Old English–early Middle English gan, Old English (chiefly Northumbrian or before personal pronoun)–Middle English ga, Middle English go, Middle English gon, Middle English guo (south-eastern); Scottish pre-1700 gane. In later use not distinguished formally from the indicative (see section 2dη. ). In Older Scots form gane probably inferred from the infinitive form gane (see section 1aα. ).OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Mark xiv. 12 Quo uis eamus : hwidder wælle ðu þæt we gae.OE Regularis Concordia (Corpus Cambr.) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1890) 84 12 Gan hi ealle endemes to snædinge, and æfter þære snædinge nime se abbod..þa gebroðra.., þe hi wyllen, and gan to heora syndrian mandatum þara..þearfena, þe hi to þam gecorene habbað.lOE Agreement between Bp. Stigand & Wulfweard (Sawyer 1476) in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 212 And æftær his dæge ga þa V hida into ealdan mynstræ.c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3390 Ga we nu till þatt illke tun.a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 33 Þah ȝe gan of sunne [perh. read sume] ower sunne to bote..ne halt nawiht þat scrift.c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) l. 2907 Ac go we to wiþ sweorde, for alle hii beoþ for-loren.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 117 Ac we him biddeþ þet he loky oure herten þet hi ne guo in-to uondynge, þet is, þet hi ne consenti.a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 804 Go we to þe gardyn.c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 315 Whan tyme cam men thoughte it for the beste That reuel stynte and men go to hir reste.1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. b In his grippis and ye gane He wald ourcum yowilkane. 4. Imperative. a. Singular.

α. Old English gaæ (Northumbrian), Old English gae (Anglian), Old English gaea (Northumbrian, perhaps transmission error), Old English–Middle English ga, Old English (rare)–Middle English gaa, early Middle English gan, early Middle English goy, Middle English gooe, Middle English guo (south-eastern), Middle English–1500s goo, Middle English–1600s goe, Middle English– go, 1800s guy (Manx English), 1900s– gow (Australian); English regional 1600s geay (Yorkshire), 1700s gu (Kent), 1800s gea (Yorkshire), 1800s gooa (Yorkshire), 1800s– gae (northern), 1800s– gah (northern), 1800s– ge (Cumberland); Scottish pre-1700 1700s– gae, pre-1700 1700s– go, pre-1700 1900s– ga, 1700s go', 1800s– g', 1800s– gie (southern), 1900s– ge (Shetland). eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) vii. 8 Et propter hanc in altum regredere : & fore ðissum in heanisse gaa eft.eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) cxlii. 2 Et non intres in iudicio cum seruo tuo : & ne ga ðu inn in dome mid ðiowe ðinum.OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. ii. 20 Uade in terram israel : faer uel gae in eorðo israheles.OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. viii. 9 Dico huic uade et uadit : ic cueðo ðissum..gaæ & gaes.a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 35 Ga to þine feder burinesse.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13030 Ga [c1300 Otho go]..and hefd him binim her.a1325 St. Juliana (Corpus Cambr.) 190 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 68 Go bliue..& bring me of þis bende. ▸ a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 3 Kings xviii. 11 Now þou seist to me, go.c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 5406 Ga lawere & be-hald.a1500 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 75 Goe, lytyll byll, & doe me recommende Vn-to my lady.1568 (a1500) Freiris Berwik 249 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 268 Ga gait me cheiss & breid.1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 159 Ga, tak him be the hand, And gang agane to the buird.1683 G. Meriton York-shire Dialogue in Pure Nat. Dial. 3 Then geay Thy wayes and fetch a Skeel of Burne.1685 Lintoun Green (1817) 58 Gae bring the Doctor? or a' houp, will vanish fræ my eyes.1791 E. Nairne Poems 77 Be sure and no gu nigh de hosses.1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) Gea thy ways.1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. 86/1 Go thee ways or I'll pin th' dishclout to thee tail.1914 J. S. Angus Gloss. Shetland Dial. 49 Ge di wis hem.1924 J. C. Mathieson in Swatches o' Hamespun 61 G' 'wa an' get yer bauchles on.2005 A. Smith Accidental 122 Go and get your camera.

β. English regional (Yorkshire) 1600s yeaud. 1685 G. Meriton York-shire Dialogue in Praise of York-shire Ale 56 Pray thee yeaud up'th Greese & fetch'th Gamashaes For I mun gang to'th Field.

γ. English regional 1800s– goos (Cornwall), 1900s– goes (chiefly northern, south-western, and south-west midlands), 1900s– goest (chiefly north-west midlands), 1900s– goise (Suffolk). 1894 Camborne Almanack 100 in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1900) II. 659/1 ‘Goos-along!’ she said.1895 J. Thomas Randigal Rhymes 89 Goos 'ome.1900 F. Hall in Eng. Dial. Dict. II. 659/1 [Suffolk] Goes away!1968 H. Orton & M. F. Wakelin Surv. Eng. Dial. IV. iii. 1014 To get rid of someone quickly..you'd say:..Off..[Cornwall] thee goes.

b. Plural.

α. Old English gaad (Northumbrian), Old English gaað (Northumbrian), Old English gaeð (Anglian), Old English gæþ (Mercian), Old English–early Middle English gaþ, Old English–early Middle English gað, early Middle English gad, early Middle English gæð, early Middle English god, early Middle English gooid, early Middle English gothþ, early Middle English goð, Middle English goeth, Middle English goith, Middle English gooþ, Middle English gooth, Middle English goþ, Middle English goth, Middle English goyth, Middle English guoþ (south-eastern). OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. viii. 32 Et ait illis ite : & cueð to him gaeð uel faereð.OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xx. 4 Ite et uos in uineam : gaað & gie in wingeard.OE Andreas (1932) 1332 Gað fromlice, ðæt ge guðfrecan gylp forbegan.c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 9269 Gaþ alle. & takeþþ upp onn ȝuw. Rihht shriffte off ȝure sinness.a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 71 Goð and sheweð giu giuwer prest.c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Royal) (1981) 158 Ne þuncheð ow nawt to forleosen ow þus in þulli mis-bileaue, ah gað & segeð scheome ure undedliche godes.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 189 Guoþ ye acorsede in-to þe greate uere eurelestinde.c1405 (c1375) G. Chaucer Monk's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 196 Gooth bryngeth forth the vessels.c1450 (?c1400) Three Kings Cologne (Cambr. Ee.4.32) (1886) 34 Goþ and sekeþ hym & do hym worschip.a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xiii. 135 Fy on you! Goyth hence Out of my presence!

β. Old English gaas (Northumbrian), Old English (Northumbrian)–Middle English gaes, Old English (Northumbrian)–Middle English gas, Middle English gais, Middle English gase, Middle English goos, Middle English goose, Middle English gos, Middle English gose, Middle English gotȝ, late Middle English goes (in a late copy). OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. ii. 8 Ite et interrogate diligenter de puero : gaes & gefraignes innueardlice of ðæm cnæht.OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Mark xvi. 15 Euntes in mundum uniuersum prędicate euangelium : gaas on middangeard allne bodigas þæt godspell.a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Titus) (1963) 1 Gas bifore owre auter. & endes ter þe graces.c1350 in Anglia (1906) 29 403 Goos and spires hardeli Of þe child ful witerli.c1390 (?c1350) Joseph of Arimathie (1871) l. 373 Gos to oure Maumetes and proues heore mihtes.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 6633 Gais [Gött. gas, Fairf. gase, Trin. Cambr. gooþ],..Slas vp yon caitefs.c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 3522 Gase quen ȝow likis.

γ. Old English gaa (Northumbrian), Old English (before personal pronoun)–Middle English ga, early Middle English gan, Middle English–1500s goo, Middle English–1600s goe, Middle English– go; Scottish pre-1700 goe, pre-1700 1700s– go, pre-1700 1900s– ga. In later use not distinguished formally from the singular (see section 4aα. for forms later than the 15th cent.).OE (Northumbrian) Rushw. Gospels: Mark xi. 2 Ite in castellum : gaa in cæstre.OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xx. 7 Ga ge on minne wingeard.c1175 ( Ælfric's Homily on Nativity of Christ (Bodl. 343) in A. O. Belfour 12th Cent. Homilies in MS Bodl. 343 (1909) 84 Ne beo ȝe na attrie [printed attre], swa swa ða yfelæ neddræ,..ne ȝe ne gan lytende, swa swa ða nytene gað.?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 78 & ȝe gan [c1230 Corpus Cambr., a1250 Titus gan] anan richt to ower deore leofmon, & meneð ow to hi[s earen]. ▸ c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xx. 4 Go and ȝee in to my vyne ȝerd.?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1876) VI. 49 Goe into youre awne cuntre and do penaunce after youre consuetude.a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 4 Goo ȝe now ynto þat ioye þat euer schall last.c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1901) I. Matt. ix. 13 Bot ga ye and leire quhat it is.1595 T. Morley First Bk. Canzonets to Two Voyces i. sig. B Goe yee my Canzonets to my deer darling.1657 A. Farindon XXX. Serm. ii. ii. 38 Goe to my palace in Silo and there learn to disdeceive yourselves.1790 J. Wolcot Advice to Future Laureat ii. 9 Go, children, to your leading-strings agen.1823 J. G. Lockhart Reginald Dalton I. 205 Gae wa', gae wa',..ye've never seen Bonny Dundee, my boys.1990 A. Duff Once were Warriors (1995) viii. 106 Go get yourselves an ice cream.

5. Past indicative (and subjunctive).Already in Old English, the subjunctive is no longer formally distinct from the indicative.

α. Chiefly south-western and south-west midlands in later use. Old English eade (chiefly Northumbrian), Old English eaðe (Northumbrian), Old English edon (plural subjunctive, transmission error), Old English eeode (rare), Old English eoden (plural, originally subjunctive), Old English iode (rare), Old English iude (rare), Old English (rare)–early Middle English heode, Old English–Middle English eode (also subjunctive), late Old English eadde, early Middle English eede, early Middle English hide, early Middle English ode, early Middle English oede, early Middle English yde, Middle English ede, Middle English hede, late Middle English eod, late Middle English eyde, late Middle English hude (south-western), late Middle English vde (south-western). h- in some Middle English forms may perhaps represent a palatal on-glide (and hence these forms would belong instead at sections β. , γ. , or δ. below).eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter: Canticles & Hymns (1965) v. 23 (19) Filii autem israhel ambulauerunt per siccum per medium mare : bearn soðlice eodun ðorh dryge ðorh midne sę.eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iii. xii. 196 Ða heo þa þis spræcon, þa iodon heo in to swæsendum, & se biscop eode gesæt in his stowe on his seðle.OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Luke xxiv. 13 Duo ex illis ibant ipsa die in castellum : tuoege of ðæm uel from him eado ðe ilca dæge in þæt woerc.OE Beowulf (2008) 1232 Eode þa to setle.OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.i) anno 883 & ii scyphlæstas him on hand heodon, & ða wæron miclum ofslegene & forwundode ær hi on hand eodon.a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 155 Heo oden wepende and sowen, and sculen eft cumen mid blisse and mawen.c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) 49 Ha..eode to chirche euche daheðes dei to leornin godes lare.a1300 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 139 As oþer childre þu eodest and speke.c1300 Body & Soul (Laud Misc. 108) (1889) 43 I ede and rod and drank and et.c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. Prol. l. 41 Beggers faste a-boute eoden [c1400 Trin. Cambr. R.3.14 ȝede].a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) l. 2597 As hole, as fayre as hit vpon vrthe vde.a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) 3233 Where-euer he satte, stode, or hude, Hym shulnot harme none hevelle thynge.a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) l. 4234 For euer, where-euer þey hedone, þey wentone dauncynge.a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 119 Where euer y ede day by day.

β. Old English geade (Northumbrian), Old English gyode (rare), Old English–early Middle English geode (rare), Middle English giode (northern), Middle English ȝeode (chiefly south-western and south-west midlands), Middle English yeod (south-western), Middle English yeode (south-western and south-west midlands), Middle English yiod (northern), Middle English yiode (northern), Middle English yiolde (northern, transmission error). OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: John v. 9 Sustulit grabatum suum et ambulabat : genom uel underhof beer his & geade uel geongende uæs.OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) ix. 25 He geode in & nam hyre hand & þæt mæden aras.OE tr. Vision of St. Paul 67 Fyrene spearcan of hyran muðan ut gyodan.OE tr. Vision of St. Paul 71 Hire ængel hire beforan geode.lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough interpolation) anno 1070 Hi..geodon into þe mynstre.c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Cambr.) (1901) 381 He ȝeode in wel riȝte To Rymenhild þe briȝte.c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1978) l. 12642 Ofte hii ȝeode [c1275 Calig. eoden] to reade ofte hii ȝeode to roune.c1300 Life & Martyrdom Thomas Becket (Harl. 2277) (1845) 76 Heo..ȝeode aboute as a best.c1390 Pistel of Swete Susan (Vernon) l. 228 To the ȝate ȝaply þei ȝeoden wel ȝare.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 19920 Quen þai of Petir undirstode, His coming, sone gain him þai giode.a1400 Pistill of Susan 228 To the ȝate ȝaply þei ȝeoden [v.rr. ȝedyn, ȝede] wel ȝare.?a1425 (?a1350) T. Castleford Chron. (1940) 406 Scho out of hys landys yiod. ▸ a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 125 Merlyon went with her evermore wheresomever she yeode.a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 9 Þus, when Egeas segh þat he was ded, he ȝeode homward.

γ. late Old English–early Middle English gede, late Old English–early Middle English iede, early Middle English gæde, early Middle English ȝet (south-western), early Middle English hiede, early Middle English iæde, Middle English gide (early or northern), Middle English giede (early or northern), Middle English ȝe (transmission error), Middle English ȝed, Middle English ȝedd, Middle English ȝeed, Middle English ȝeede, Middle English ȝeide (early or northern), Middle English ȝeyde (northern), Middle English ȝhede (northern and north-west midlands), Middle English ȝide, Middle English ȝiede, Middle English ȝyd, Middle English ȝyde, Middle English yed, Middle English yedd, Middle English yhed (northern), Middle English yhede (northern), Middle English yied (northern), Middle English yiede (chiefly northern), Middle English–1500s yede, Middle English–1500s yeede, Middle English–1600s yeed, 1500s yeade; English regional 1800s yede (Yorkshire); Scottish pre-1700 ȝead, pre-1700 ȝed, pre-1700 ȝede, pre-1700 ȝeid, pre-1700 ȝeide, pre-1700 ȝet, pre-1700 ȝhed, pre-1700 ȝheid, pre-1700 ȝheide, pre-1700 ȝhyd, pre-1700 ȝid, pre-1700 ȝyd, pre-1700 yead, pre-1700 yed, pre-1700 yeid, pre-1700 yhed, pre-1700 yhede, pre-1700 yheid, pre-1700 yheide, pre-1700 yheyd, pre-1700 yid, pre-1700 yied, pre-1700 yit, pre-1700 1700s yeed, pre-1700 1800s yede, 1700s yee'd; N.E.D. (1921) also records a form late Middle English ȝhed. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough interpolation) anno 1070 Syððon geden heom to scipe, ferden heom to Elig.?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1137 Me dide cnotted strenges abuton here hæued & uurythen it ðat it gæde to þe hærnes.?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1137 Sume ieden on ælmes þe waren sum wile rice men.?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1140 Scæ fleh & iæde on fote to Walingford.c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3396 Ðeȝȝ ȝedenn forþ Till beþþleæmess chesstre.a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 175 Ure helende giede bi þe se.a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 135 Elizabet was liht of þe holie gost, þe was on þe child þe hie mide hiede.c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) 1324 Þis wes þe ereste king þat ȝet vt to reuing.c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 1766 Ac basian & al is folc ȝede anon to gronde.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 233 Þe wyse maydines..yeden in mid þe bredgome to þe bredale.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 21093 He prechid þare wiþ fote he gide.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 21601 To mete hir giede mani barune.1423 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1834) III. 97 He yeed in ambassiate to..ye Kyng of Polayn.a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 4851 Þat day, þat Loth yhed out of Sodome.1426–7 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 10 The seyd Walter yede at large owt of warde.c1480 (a1400) St. Placidus l. 297 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 78 Þane wes þe feynd wondir wa, þat placydas lewit hym sa & ȝet on crist.1487 R. Cely in Cely Lett. (1975) 231 I hade xx li. mor, wheyrof ȝeyde xij li. and mor for carryayge of wholl.1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 302 His caus ȝeid fra ill to wer.1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos i. B ij Venus..Her self by skye to Paphos yede wher stonds her honor seates [etc.].c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) v. 16 In May quhen men ȝeid everich one,..To bring in bowis.1566 T. Drant in tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Cvij When you..yeade to Louaine there to heare, The Latine Romishe worde.1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle iv. ii. sig. Div My Gammer then she yeede, see now hir neele againe to bring.?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 363 With this the word yead through the toun.a1605 A. Montgomerie Devotional Poems in Poems (1910) iii. 29 That leddir..Quhairby the angels come and ȝeid From hevin to earth.1669 Hist. Sir Eger 6 Through force of him and of his steed, He bare me down, and over me yeed.1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess i. 7 They Yeed hand in hand together.1790 A. Shirrefs Poems 215 Some elder fowks, by far mair douse, Yee'd to the pantry ben the house.1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Yede is still used in Ang[us] although almost obsolete.1868 A. Sedgwick Mem. Cowgill Chapel 82 I yede ymel Dent and Gawthrop.

δ. Middle English ȝhud (northern), Middle English ȝhude (northern), Middle English ȝude (chiefly south-western), Middle English yhude (northern); English regional 1600s yud (north-western), 1600s (northern)–1700s (Derbyshire) yewd; Scottish pre-1700 ȝhud, pre-1700 ȝhude, pre-1700 ȝhuyde, pre-1700 ȝud, pre-1700 ȝude, pre-1700 ȝuid, pre-1700 yhud, pre-1700 yhude, pre-1700 yude. a1325 St. Thomas Apostle (Corpus Cambr.) l. 310 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 581 Þis gode wif..Changede hure cloþes & hudde hure neb & ȝude as heo hure radde.c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 5155 Mynours ȝude & mynede þe wal.a1425 (?c1300) Northern Passion (Cambr. Gg.5.31) 1677 Þe Iewis vnto pilate þai ȝhude.1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xii. 560 Quhill throu the byrneis brist the blud, That till the erd doune stremand ȝud [1489 Adv. ȝhude].a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) ii. l. 330 His breþir..Slew a kyde and in þe blude Wet þe gowne þat he in ȝhuyde.1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. biiiiv Gaudifeir and galiot baith to grund yhude [printed yhnde].1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 217 In till array syne neir the Saxonis ȝude.1568 (a1500) Freiris Berwik 539 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 277 And throw þe myre full smertly than he ȝude.1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 55 Yewd or Yod: Went, Yewing: Going.1677 W. Nicolson Gloss. Cumbrian Dial. in Trans. Royal Soc. Lit. (1870) 9 323 Yud, he went.a1796 S. Pegge Two Coll. Derbicisms (1896) 85 †Yod, or Yewd..went.

ε. Middle English ȝhode (northern), Middle English ȝod, Middle English ȝodd, Middle English ȝode, Middle English ȝohde (northern), Middle English ȝohod (northern), Middle English ȝohude (northern), Middle English ȝood, Middle English ȝoode, Middle English ȝot (south-western), Middle English ȝowde (northern), Middle English yhode (chiefly northern), Middle English yodd, Middle English yoede (northern), Middle English yohode (northern), Middle English yoode, Middle English youde, Middle English–1500s yod, 1600s yood, 1600s youd, Middle English–1600s (1700s archaic) yode; English regional 1600s (northern)–1700s (Derbyshire) yod, 1700s (northern)–1800s (Gloucestershire) yode; Scottish pre-1700 ȝode, pre-1700 ȝoid, pre-1700 ȝood, pre-1700 ȝowde, pre-1700 yhood, pre-1700 yhoude, 1700s–1800s 2000s– yode (poetic). c1330 Horn Child 1033 in J. Hall King Horn (1901) 191 Haþerof in to halle ȝode, For to bihald þat frely fode.c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 3690 A rideþ to Richard wyþ a spere,..& on þe scheld hym smot; þorȝ-out ys scheld..& iakke & ioupoun, þorȝ-out al it ȝot.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6264 Þe see on aiþer side þam stod Als walles tua, quils þai for yod.a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) xvii. 49 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 150 Þai halted þare þai yhode Fra þine sties þat ere gode.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11010 Þair modres..Yoede at ans wit þair child.c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1146 A hundreth of hunteres..To trystors vewters ȝod.a1450 York Plays (1885) 50 My frendis þat I fra yoode Are ouere flowen with floode.?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 643 Him thoght oute of þe shipp he yhode.a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. lxxxiii. f. xxxiiv The Bysshop..yode vnto the house.1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ii. xii. 21 Throw howsis and the citie quhar I ȝoid.c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) clxiii. 636 He issued out of the gate and yode towardes the tentes of his enemyes.1524 H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. I. 244 Saing if he yode awaye she must neds do for her self.1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. x. sig. K4v Such one, as that same mighty man of God, That blood-red billowes..Disparted with his rod, Till that his army dry-foot through them yod.1595 L. Bryskett Pastorall Aeglogue in E. Spenser Colin Clouts come Home Againe sig. H3v Along the bankes of many siluer streames, Thou with him yodest.1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xx. xcii. 381 An armed stead fast by the Soldan yood.1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. iv. 67 Then forth shee yode.1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 130 A lang youd I.a1650 Glasgerion 46 in J. W. Hales & F. J. Furnivall Bp. Percy's Folio MS (1867) I. 250 He did not kisse that Lady gay when he came nor when he youd.1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence ii. xxxv And much they moraliz'd as thus yfere they yode.1787 W. Taylor Scots Poems 106 A colt..Yode to a herd o' jet black nowt.1808 W. Scott Marmion iii. xxxiii. 166 In other pace than forth he yode, Returned Lord Marmion.1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 76 The veil o' waffin' stour..wrapt That army as they yode.1868 R. W. Huntley Gloss. Cotswold (Gloucs.) Dial. Gode, Past tense of To go, often softened into yode.2015 S. Gilliland in Lallans 87 15 A doolie lass wha tae wede wase yode.

ζ. late Middle English–1500s weent, late Middle English–1500s wentt, late Middle English–1500s wentte, late Middle English–1600s wente, late Middle English– went, 1500s whent, 1900s– wenn (regional); Scottish pre-1700 uent, pre-1700 veynt, pre-1700 vint, pre-1700 wentt, pre-1700 whent, pre-1700 1700s vent, pre-1700 1700s– went, 1900s– wint; also Irish English 1800s– wint. c1405 (c1375) G. Chaucer Monk's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 117 Euery Reawme wente he for to se.?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 10 He..departid thens and went to ship.1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope iii. f. cxxiiiv A good man labourer wente fro lyf to deth.1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Sam. vii. 9 Whither so euer thou wentest.1535 Sir A. Windsor Let. 26 Mar. in Lisle Papers (P.R.O.: SP 3/14/52) f. 65 Theye whent straytte to the fforeste of Bere..&..theyȝe whent by the heyȝe waye homewardes.1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. C2 They went a Boot-haling one night.a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. iv. 88 Wentst not thou to her?1643–4 in Misc. Spalding Club (1852) V. 107 To ane poist who veynt to seik intelligence concerning the rysing of the Gordonis.1670 Lady Chaworth Let. in Hist. MSS Comm.: 12th Rep.: App. Pt. V (1889) 19 in Parl. Papers (C. 5889–II) XLIV. 393 Heere is talke as if the Duke of M[onmouth] went Deputy into Ireland.1700 Seafield Corr. (1912) 381 The horeses wint from this with sending your granchyld to Abd.1727 J. Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins 273 Trajan..descended to the Mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates, and went upon the Ocean.1839 W. Carleton Fardorougha 221 Them that wor only slips when I wint acrass.1851 W. E. Gladstone Memorandum 22 Apr. in J. Morley Life Gladstone (1903) I. iii. vii. 406 I did not like to stickle, and went.1895 J. B. Tabb To Freedman in Spectator 6 Apr. 464/2 But with new-wed Liberty Wentest thy way.1900 F. P. Dunne Mr. Dooley's Philos. 207 He was a gr-reat rassler an'..he had a full Nelson on th' foolish man that wint again him.1994 S. Robertson in J. Robertson Tongue in yer Heid 17 Een day Morag wint walking on a different pairt o the countryside.2011 Guardian 17 May 29/2 By the time I went to bed, the foreign minister still tweeting furiously, our twitterspat had gone global with supporters on both sides weighing in.

η. late Middle English ȝade (south-western), late Middle English yad, late Middle English yadde; Scottish pre-1700 ȝaid, pre-1700 yaid. ?1424 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) (modernized text) I. 23 The Sheriffs..yadden up to the West Derby fen.a1450 St. Etheldreda (Faust.) l. 1076 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 306 When þay hadden þus hurre preyours y-made, Þey reson hem vp..And to þat ȝerde aȝeyn þo anone he ȝade.a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 1192 His squiers habite he had, Whan he to the deyse yad.1600 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1816) IV. 206/2 Passit to the kingis maiestie and ȝaid about him and drew his quhinger.1633 in J. Imrie & J. G. Dunbar Accts. Masters of Wks. (1982) II. 352 Thomas yaid and tuik the said bot with him.

θ. 1500s gaid (north-west midlands), 1800s– goed (regional); English regional 1800s– gade (Yorkshire), 1800s– gae (Yorkshire), 1800s– gaed (northern), 1800s– gaid (northern), 1800s– geead (Yorkshire), 1800s– geed (chiefly Yorkshire), 1800s– gode (Gloucestershire), 1800s– goode (Worcestershire), 1900s– gahd (Westmorland), 1900s– gooad (Yorkshire); Scottish pre-1700 gaid, pre-1700 gait, pre-1700 gead, pre-1700 geid, pre-1700 1700s– gaed, pre-1700 1800s ged, 1700s gae'd, 1700s–1800s gade, 1700s– geed, 1800s geade, 1800s gede, 1800s güd (Shetland), 1800s– gied, 1800s– gude, 1800s– gued, 1800s– guid (Shetland), 1800s– güid (Shetland), 1900s– gaet, 1900s– gid, 1900s– go'ed, 1900s– goid, 1900s– gud, 1900s– guud; also Irish English (northern) 1900s– gade, 1900s– gaed, 1900s– gied. ▸ ?a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 248 Ga bring to me ane bischopis weid, Gife evir thow wald my sawle gaid vnto hevin.c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 7v He..Gaidvp by a grese all of gray marbill.?c1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) III. 18 Syne gaid to giddir bayth Iynny & Iok.1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 185 Of this the nobilitie geid til a counsell.a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 32 On ged the corslet, and fangit was the hagbot.?a1670 in W. Hunter Biggar & House of Fleming (1862) xxvii. 342 The lady gaed up the Parliament Stairs, Wi' pendles in her lug sae bonnie.1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd ii. iv When first thou gade wi' shepherds to the hill.1786 R. Burns Holy Fair ii, in Poems 41 The third..gaed a wee a-back.1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake ii. viii. 76 Bonny Kilmeny gaed up the glen.1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 70 I geed to market o' foot.1864 Fraser's Mag. Nov. 629 He used to tak me along with him when he gaed to the hills.1902 J. Masefield in Pall Mall Gaz. Apr. 530 Her masts were gone, 'n' afore you knowed She filled by the head 'n' down she goed.1983 N. Giovanni Those who ride Right Winds ii. 51 I goed on red..and stopped on green.2000 D. Kerr Puckle Poems 49 We gaed back ti Eilean Mor.

ι. 1800s– gone (regional); Scottish 1900s– gane, 1900s– gean; Irish English 1900s– gane. 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) 28 Go..[past tense] gone, went.1900 H. Kingsford in Eng. Dial. Dict. II. 659/2 I gone alung thot fŭtwahy munny's the time.1971 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1991) II. 696/1 She got up and gone.

κ. 1900s– go (regional). 1922 A. E. Gonzales Black Border Gloss. 304 Go,..went.1984 J. Platt et al. New Englishes v. 68 From the Philippines:..And then I go to the Public School.

6. Present participle.

α. Old English gande, Old English gende (in prefixed forms), Old English (in prefixed forms)–Middle English gonde, early Middle English goinde (southern), early Middle English goude (transmission error), Middle English gaand (northern), Middle English gaande (northern), Middle English goand, Middle English goande, Middle English goende, Middle English gond, Middle English goond, Middle English goonde, Middle English guoinde (south-eastern), Middle English 1600s gooying, Middle English–1500s gooinge, Middle English–1500s gooyng, Middle English–1500s gooynge, Middle English–1500s goyinge, Middle English–1500s goynge, Middle English–1600s goinge, Middle English–1600s gooing, Middle English–1600s goying, Middle English–1600s goyng, Middle English– going, 1500s gohyng, 1500s–1600s goeing, 1500s–1600s goeinge, 1800s– goan (regional), 1800s– goin (regional and nonstandard), 1800s– goin' (regional and nonstandard); English regional 1700s– gaain (northern and Lincolnshire), 1800s gaain' (northern), 1800s gaen (Cumberland), 1800s ga'n (Lancashire), 1800s gawin (northern), 1800s gawin' (northern), 1800s gawn (northern), 1800s geayn (Northumberland), 1800s goain' (Yorkshire), 1800s gooan (Lancashire), 1800s– gaan (northern), 1800s– gaeing (northern), 1800s– gahin' (northern), 1800s– gain, 1800s– gan (northern), 1800s– gaun (northern), 1800s– geann (Cumberland), 1800s– gewing (Essex), 1800s– gi'en (northern), 1800s– gine (Yorkshire), 1800s– gooin, 1800s– gooin', 1800s– goon (Essex), 1800s– guaying (Worcestershire), 1800s– gying (Yorkshire), 1800s– gyne (Cumberland), 1900s– gahn (Westmorland), 1900s– gaing (northern), 1900s– gooen, 1900s– gyen (Northumberland); U.S. regional 1800s go'n', 1900s– ghy, 1900s– gine, 1900s– go (in African-American usage), 1900s– go' (in African-American usage), 1900s– goan, 1900s– go'n, 1900s– gon, 1900s– gone, 1900s– gorn, 1900s– goun', 1900s– guh (in African-American usage); Scottish pre-1700 goande, pre-1700 1700s– going, 1700s– gaun, 1700s– gawn, 1800s gain, 1800s gyaan (north-eastern), 1800s gyain (north-eastern), 1800s jyaain (north-eastern), 1800s– gaain, 1800s– gaein, 1800s– gaen, 1800s– gain', 1800s– gyaun (north-eastern), 1900s– dyan (north-eastern), 1900s– dyaun (north-eastern), 1900s– gaan, 1900s– gaean, 1900s– gae'an, 1900s– gaein', 1900s– gaing, 1900s– gan, 1900s– gan', 1900s– gauin, 1900s– gawin, 1900s– gien (southern), 1900s– gjaain (Shetland), 1900s– gone, 1900s– gyaain (Shetland), 1900s– gyaan (Orkney), 1900s– gyaen (north-eastern), 1900s– gyan (north-eastern); also Irish English (chiefly northern) 1800s goan, 1800s– gan', 1900s– gaein, 1900s– gan, 1900s– gaun, 1900s– gawn, 1900s– goin; see also gwine v.The modern Scots regional (north-eastern) forms in dy-, jy- (esp. characteristic of the dialect of Buchan) show palatalization and affrication of initial /ɡ/ to /dʒ/ (compare forms and discussion at gang v.1).OE tr. Defensor Liber Scintillarum (1969) xxiv. 187 In uia ambulans : on wege gande.c1300 Childhood Jesus (Laud) 967 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1875) 1st Ser. 33 Ase Jesus was hamward goinde, A felun giv him cam metinde.c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) 5840 Þan is he goand oway ful ȝernne, So þat he com to a water sterne.c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 1890 ‘Þow semest bet’, quaþ Amerel ‘a deuel gonde in dale, þan’ [etc.]. ▸ c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (N.Y. Publ. Lib.) (1850) Rom. Prol. 300 Goende to Jerusalem.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 2005 Þe world was goonde In elde of þe þridde þousonde.c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2214 For now is gode Gawayn goande ryȝt here.1474–5 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1472 3rd Roll §46. m. 7 Every maner of corn..into this reame comyng, ale, and almaner vitaill gooyng oute of this said reame. ▸ ?a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 110 A iournay going everie day.1561 Q. Kennedy Oratioune (1812) 18 Ane thristie manne..goande by ane tauerne.a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 5 The tuppes goinge allwayes with them, some of the ewes will tuppe sooner, and some later.1786 R. Burns Holy Fair v, in Poems 43 I'm gaun to xxxxxxxxx holy fair.1790 A. Wheeler Westmorland Dial. 30 I cud net think what he wur gaain toa send me for.1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 15 I pass'd her gawn owre the lang meedow.1875 A. Porson Notes Quaint Words Dial. S. Worcs. 13 Guaying, going.1938 W. Faulkner Unvanquished 22 What we ghy do now?1951 M. McLuhan Let. 5 Jan. (1987) 219 We can grow potatoes on the moon tomorrow. How you goan to expose that?1962 New Shetlander No. 63. 4 Wis grown-up lasses were aye anxious ta ken what wir future was gyaan ta be.2010 J. O'Connor Ghost Light (2011) ix. 148 There's a terrible catchin' cold goin' the town.

β. early Middle English ganninde; Scottish pre-1700 ganand, pre-1700 gannand. Inferred from the infinitive forms Middle English ganne, Older Scots gane (see respectively sections 1b and 1aα. ).c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 793 Corineus heom eafter com..Ne ganninde [c1300 Otho goinde] ne ridinde ne durste him nan abiden.c1480 (a1400) St. Christopher l. 97 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 343 But avysment fast gannand.1497 A. Halyburton Ledger (1867) 132 For his costis comand and ganand.

γ. English regional (northern) 1600s yewing. Apparently inferred from the past tense form yewd (see section 5δ. ).1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 55 Yewd or Yod: Went, Yewing: Going.

7. Past participle.

α. Old English gegan, Old English gen (in prefixed forms (not ge-), rare), Old English (rare)–early Middle English gæn (in prefixed forms (not ge-)), Old English–Middle English gan, early Middle English ȝegan, early Middle English gun, Middle English gain (northern), Middle English gane, Middle English geen (in representations of northern speech), Middle English gone, Middle English gonne, Middle English goone, Middle English goyn (northern), Middle English igan, Middle English igon, Middle English igone, Middle English igoon, Middle English jgon, Middle English ygan, Middle English ygoen, Middle English ygon, Middle English ygone, Middle English ygoon, Middle English–1500s goen, Middle English–1600s goon, Middle English–1700s gon, late Middle English gonn (in a late copy), 1500s i goen (archaic), 1600s gaene, 1600s ygone (archaic), 1900s– gawn (regional and nonstandard), 1900s– gorn (regional and nonstandard); English regional 1600s 1800s– gane (northern), 1600s 1800s– gean (northern), 1700s guone (Somerset), 1800s gaan (northern), 1800s gain (Yorkshire), 1800s gayn (Westmorland), 1800s geyan (Lancashire), 1800s gwon (Northamptonshire and Somerset), 1800s gyan (Cumberland), 1800s– gaen (northern), 1800s– gaine (Yorkshire), 1800s– geean (Yorkshire), 1800s– geyen (Northumberland), 1800s– geyn (Northumberland), 1800s– gi'en (Durham), 1800s– goan, 1800s– gooan (Somerset), 1800s– goon, 1800s– gwone (western), 1800s– gwun (west midlands), 1800s– gyen (Northumberland), 1900s– a-gone (Berkshire), 1900s– gan (northern), 1900s– gæan (Lancashire), 1900s– geayne (Yorkshire), 1900s– gian (Yorkshire), 1900s– gon; U.S. regional 1800s gown; Scottish pre-1700 gaan, pre-1700 gain, pre-1700 gaine, pre-1700 gayn, pre-1700 gein (eastern), pre-1700 geine (eastern), pre-1700 goyn, pre-1700 ygone, pre-1700 1700s– gaen, pre-1700 1700s– gane, pre-1700 1700s– gon, pre-1700 1700s– gone, pre-1700 1800s gayne, pre-1700 1800s– gan, 1800s geane (southern), 1800s– geen (north-eastern and Orkney), 1800s– gin, 1900s– gaun, 1900s– gean, 1900s– gien; also Irish English (northern) 1900s– gane. OE Judith 140 Hie ða beahhrodene feðelaste forð onettan, oð hie glædmode gegan hæfdon to ðam wealgate.OE Regularis Concordia (Tiber.) (1993) xxxiii. 64 Ad quam itur : to þære byþ gan.c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 14226 Þurrh þatt teȝȝre win wass gan.a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 3 Ure louerd ihesu cristes tocumes ben tweien openliche: þe fireste is gon.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1033 Þus is þis eit-lond i-gon [c1300 Otho hi-go] from honde to hond.c1300 Pilate (Harl.) 116 in F. J. Furnivall Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 114 If þu haddest hider igon..þi wille hadde beo idon.a1350 (a1250) Harrowing of Hell (Harl.) (1907) 4 Ihesu wes to helle ygan.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17288 + 436 In-til a strang plas..all þe [apostels] wore goone.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5171 Thriti yere es siþen gain.c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 158 This Alayn al forgat bothe mele and corn..whilk wey is he gane [c1405 Ellesmere geen], he gan to crye.c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) ii. 11 The gayes han y-gon.c1480 (a1400) St. Margaret 639 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 65 Mychty god, makare of al warldis, þat gayne are or cum sal.a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) l. 55 The day was gonne.a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xviii. 216 This day is goyn nere ilka deyll.c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1901) I. Luke v. 2 The fischaris war gaan doun and weschit [L. descenderant et lavabant] thar nettis.1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Pref. 18 Where not many yeares goen.1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates James I. xiii. 7 So was he suer I goen to haue his pray.c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) x. 59 Evirilk greif is gane.1601 J. Manningham in C. M. Ingleby & L. T. Smith Shakespeare's Cent. Prayse (1879) 45 A Citizen gaene soe farr in liking with him.1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. D6 But when from Aptery we were ygone.1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes ii. 65 (margin) They will have Phineas to have gon this Expedition.1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xvi. viii. 60 I expect to hear every Moment she is guone again.1786 R. Burns Poems 118 Thou could hae gaen like ony staggie Out owre the lay.1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 372 ‘The be-ast are gwon a' th' uvver side of the clus’; the beasts are gone on the upper side of the close.1869 C. Gibbon Robin Gray v She's gaen out to the grass.1893 J. Salisbury Gloss. Words S.E. Worcs. 88 I 'ope when you be gwun as we sh'll 'ave a better come.1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood xi. 186 Are ye daft, sir? Are ye gane clean gyte?1974 G. Chapman et al. Monty Python's Flying Circus (1989) II. xlii. 290 Yes, she's gorn off because Mansfield said tin to her.2012 Independent 19 Sept. 23/1 They did not understand what had gone wrong.

β. Old English ead (Northumbrian, in prefixed forms). OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xxi. 9 Quae praecedebant et quae sequebantur : ða ðe foreeadon uel foreead werun & ða ðe æfterfylgdon.] OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xxiv. 34 Non praeteribit haec generatio donec omnia haec fiant : ne foregæs uel ne bið geead uel ne geliorað ðius cnewreso ða hwile uel wið alle ðas biðon.

γ. Middle English ego, Middle English goe, Middle English goo, Middle English higo, Middle English igo, Middle English igoe, Middle English igoo, Middle English iguo (south-eastern), Middle English ygoo, Middle English yguo (south-eastern), Middle English ygwo, Middle English (1600s archaic) ygo, Middle English–1500s go, 1500s ygoe (archaic); English regional 1800s– a-go (Somerset), 1800s– a-goo (Somerset), 1800s– go (Devon), 1800s– goo (Somerset); U.S. regional 1900s– go (in African-American usage). c1275 Kentish Serm. in J. Hall Select. Early Middle Eng. (1920) I. 221 He fond þet heþen folk þet be þo time þet was i go hedden i be ut of godes be liaue.c1330 Otuel (Auch.) (1882) 1062 Whuder is god ogger go?1340 Ayenbite (1866) 142 He is y-guo into þe hole of þo roche ase þe colure ine his coluerhous.a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 70 Hit is mony day go þat he was here.c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 288 A Clerc..That vn to logyk. hadde longe ygo.a1450 Partonope of Blois (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1912) l. 1940 She was goo.c1460 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Laud) l. 1917 A twelf-monþe was go by this.1496 Epit. Iaspar Late Duke of Beddeforde (Pynson) sig. aiiv Wo alas..for he is go.1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Nov. 76 The..floure..Is faded quite and into dust ygoe.1647 H. More Philos. Poems iv. v If that one substance also were ygo.1867 W. F. Rock Jim an' Nell 18 Jist while tha maids be go, I must commerce wi' thee.1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Maister Maister's a-go to market.1922 A. E. Gonzales Black Border Gloss. 304 Go,..gone.1973 C. Marten Devonshire Dial. 22/2 ‘Er'v go church’ [She (or he) has gone to church].

δ. 1600s–1700s (1800s– regional and nonstandard) went; Scottish pre-1700 1700s– went, 1700s uent. ?c1600 A. Montgomerie Poems (1910) 226 Quha stubburnelie hes went [c1600 Ker haif look't] so lang astray.1642 W. Sedgwicke Zions Deliv. Ded. sig. A2v The sentence of a Judge..would have went right if the times had not beene bad.1701 Minute Bk. New Mills Cloth Manuf. (1905) 268 For lybelling the Counsell summonds againsts the servants uent auay to Hamiltone.1711 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 163 'Tis pretended that this Smith must have went away that Morning.1729 S. Switzer Introd. Gen. Syst. Hydrostaticks & Hydraulicks 319 The Length of Time it [sc. an engine] has went, without any other than very necessary Repairs.1749 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. I 33 Whether Mr. Wesley has not went to bed since that time others may know as well as himself.1846 W. E. Brockett J. T. Brockett's Gloss. North Country Words (ed. 3) II. 215 Went, for gone. Frequent in the North, as well as among the Cockneys.1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xliv. 450 The unpolished [Southerners] often use ‘went’ for ‘gone’. It is nearly as bad as the Northern..‘He had n't ought to have went.’1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxviii. 243 I'll tell Miss Susan to..say you've went away for a few hours.1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Went You never didn ought to a-went; for—You ought not to have gone.1890 Dial. Notes 1 i. 7 Mr. Emerson mentioned the principal parts go, went, went (have went for have gone).1917 E. Hemingway Let. 26 Oct. (2011) I. 56 Nix on Fatimas for even they have went up to 18¢.1977 T. Murphy Famine in Plays: 1 (1992) 83 We should have went!1994 M. Bowman & B. Findlay Forever Yours 15 Ah could've went tae Steinberg's tae buy smoothy... Sure, ah could've saved six cents.2004 L. Marney No Wonder I take Drink xi. 122 I mean there's jiggery-pokery has went on here.

ε. Scottish 1700s–1800s gied, 1800s– gaed; Irish English (northern) 1800s gied. 1781 J. Pinkerton Sc. Tragic Ballads xi. 66 He has gied to bed.1829 J. Hay Poems 91 The chest In which the body lies at rest, Has mony a time in pieces gied, Ere in the grave 'twas half way laid.a1896 W. G. Lyttle Robin's Readings (c1900) i. 10 A wuz..that sick that A didnae care the boat had gied down.1897 R. M. Fergusson Village Poet 25 A lot o' fowk gang because they've aye gaed.1899 W. Churchill Richard Carvel 182 They had gaed barefit thegither amang the braes.1909 J. J. Bell Oh! Christina 156 I wish I had gaed into Uncle Purdie's business.1949 H. W. Pryde McFlannels United i. 9 A mannie had gaed alang the roadie.1960 C. Brand Heaven Knows Who xiv. 171 He had gaed awa' tae his bed again.a1981 ‘R. Garioch’ tr. G. Belli in Coll. Poems (2004) 215 Amalia has gaed aff wi a quack.

ζ. English regional (Somerset) 1800s– a-goned. 1898 Athenæum 26 Feb. 282/3 Very zoon they'll be all a-goned.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian gān , Old Dutch gān , gēn (Middle Dutch gaen , Dutch gaan ), Old Saxon -gān (in fulgān to accomplish; Middle Low German gān ), Old High German gān , gēn (Middle High German gān , gēn , German gehen ), and Crimean Gothic geen (not attested in earlier Gothic), further etymology uncertain (see note). Compare Old Icelandic gá (late and rare), apparently ultimately < an East Norse word (compare Old Swedish gā (Swedish gå ), Old Danish gaa (Danish gå )), itself either cognate with the West Germanic words listed above or borrowed < Middle Low German. For the origin of the modern past tense form went see wend v.1, and on its adoption as (suppletive) past tense of go see note on form history below.1. Further etymology. The attested forms in various languages suggest that there were originally two underlying Germanic bases, one with a long vowel (ē ) and one with a diphthong (ai ), which appear to have nearly but not fully merged. It is unclear how these Germanic bases are related to each other. It has been suggested that the Germanic base with ē is related to the reduplicating verbs ancient Greek κιχάνειν , κιχῆναι to attain, reach, Sanskrit hā- (3rd singular present active indicative jahāti relinquishes, leaves behind, 3rd singular present middle indicative jihīte moves, goes). Various suggestions have been made for the origin of the base with diphthong, including various phonological developments, an analogy with forms of stand v. (in fact it seems more likely that the latter verb has been influenced by forms of go v.), or alternatively a separate derivation < the Germanic base of Old English ge- y- prefix + a reflex of the Indo-European base of classical Latin īre to go (see exit v.1) and perhaps also of Gothic iddja went (compare discussion of the past tense below). It is also unclear whether these are further related to the Germanic base of gang (see gang v.1), or whether they are unrelated but became associated with it at an early date, because of their phonological and semantic similarity. In modern English, go and gang (where it survives) are interchangeable in the present tense (with the former more common overall, but the latter favoured in some varieties, especially Scots); in most other Germanic languages, reflexes of the respective bases have combined to form a suppletive paradigm and are perceived as forms of the same word (compare discussion at gang v.1). 2. Form history: (i) present tense. Apparently originally an athematic verb, despite the uncertainties with regard to the etymology of the verb beyond West Germanic. In Old English, inflection of the present stem shows similar development to dōn do v. It has been suggested that the athematic 1st singular ending, which is attested clearly in Old High German gām , gēm is also marginally reflected in Old English, but the relevant reading in the Vespasian Psalter has been disputed from the first, and the current standard edition (by S. M. Kuhn, 1965) reads geondgau (i.e. apparently showing the Anglian 1st singular thematic inflectional ending –u ) rather than *geondgan . In Old English the present stem gā- shows i-mutation in the 2nd and 3rd singular indicative (gǣst , gǣþ : see Forms 2bα. , 2cα. ). Spellings with ae (attested in Anglian) for these and other forms derived from the present stem may reflect a mutated vowel, but often represent disyllabic forms without i-mutation, as seen more clearly in e.g. Northumbrian gāæs at Forms 2cε. . The interpretation of individual spellings in gae- or gæ- (and also gaa- ) as either monosyllabic or disyllabic in this context is uncertain and disputed, especially in Northumbrian. However, it seems the mutated stem form gǣ- was occasionally extended beyond the 2nd and 3rd singular indicative in Anglian sources. On the other hand, early currency of disyllabic forms appears to be confirmed by the metrical treatment in Old English verse. Occasional forms showing the reflex of a mutated stem vowel survive in Middle English, but modern standard English continues only forms without i-mutation, which show regular southern Middle English rounding and raising (to long open ō ) of the reflex of Old English ā . (ii) past tense. Apparently in West Germanic, no past tense was formed from the present stem; weak past tense forms such as Older Scots and northern Middle English gaid (see Forms 5θ. ) are secondary and much later. In Old English the past tense of the verb is formed suppletively from a base of uncertain and disputed origin. Old English past tense ēode inflects like a weak past tense. The stem vowel appears as ēo in all regional varieties, including Northumbrian, showing only variants consistent with a derivation from a Germanic diphthong *eu (e.g. Northumbrian ēade , Kentish (prefixed) īode , etc.). The Northumbrian forms do not allow reconstruction of Germanic *iu . This presents phonological difficulties with regard to an etymological connection of the Old English past tense form with Gothic iddja , the suppletive past tense of Gothic gaggan gang v.1, which would otherwise suggest itself as a cognate because of its formal, semantic, and functional similarity. A number of solutions to this difficulty have been proposed. The alternative suggestion, which assumes that Gothic iddja is not related and that ēode ultimately derives from the same base as classical Latin vādere vade v.2, poses its own phonological and morphological difficulties. For further discussion of the Old English forms see H. M. Flasdieck ‘Ae. dōn und gān’ in Anglia 61 (1937) 54–64, A. Campbell Old Eng. Gram. (1959) §768(c), R. M. Hogg & R. D. Fulk Gram. Old Eng. (2011) II. §§6.156–9, D. Ringe & A. Taylor Devel. Old Eng. (2014) 370–1. Already in Old English, forms of past tense ēode show the development of a palatal on-glide (see Forms 5β. , 5γ. ), although some such forms could perhaps be alternatively interpreted as showing past tense forms of i-go v. (compare regular examples below). It is certainly possible that the frequency of Middle English forms of the past tense with palatal on-glide is partly due to early influence from the forms of i-go v. (compare e.g. discussion at earn v.1 and i-earn v.). However, such forms are probably more significantly reinforced by the parallel development of past tense forms with initial palatal where this arises by shift of stress within the original diphthong (also termed resyllabification) (see especially Forms 5ε. ). For a different interpretation, which sees all of the Middle English forms with initial palatal (whether as the result of putative resyllabification or not) as a continuation of the process seen in Old English, see M. Laing & R. Lass in Folia Linguistica Historica 35 (2014) 213–15. Compare the following attestations of prefixed Old English geēode : eOE Corpus Gloss. (1890) 12/1 Adgrediuntur : geeodun [eOE Epinal gihiodum].OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xx. 5 Iterum autem exiit..et fecit similiter : eftsona soðlice geeode..& dyde gelic.OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: John x. 23 Ambulabat iesus in templo : geeade se hælend in temple.OE Beowulf (2008) 1967 Hi sið drugon, elne geeodon.OE Beowulf (2008) 2676 Ac se maga geonga under his mæges scyld elne geeode. In the course of the 15th cent. the old past tense form was gradually supplanted by a new suppletive form borrowed from the regular past tense of wend v.1 (compare Forms 5ζ. ); in Older Scots, this process continued until the late 16th cent. Many texts of this period use both forms side by side, and in these cases it is often unclear whether a particular instance of went should be interpreted as the past tense of wend v.1 or of go v.; compare the following:a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Matt. viii. 32 Thei ȝeden out, and wenten in to the swyne [L. illi exeuntes abierunt in porcos]. ▸ a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 125 Merlyon went with her evermore wheresomever she yeode.a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 19 They went yche yere..and Ȝede vp vnto a maysterful mountayne. Occasional infinitive and imperative uses were inferred from the old past tense (see Forms 1aβ. , 4aβ. , and compare yede v., yode v.). (iii) past participle. The Old English past participle gān (usually prefixed gegān ) shows the regular -n ending of the strong past participle and otherwise the same stem form as the present. The rare past participle forms -gen , -gæn (only in prefixed forms) appear in texts showing Mercian influence; it is doubtful whether they should be taken as showing i-mutation of the stem. In contrast, Northumbrian Old English has a rare past participle form -ēad (only in prefixed forms), derived from the stem form of the past tense. The pronunciation of modern standard English gone (Brit. /ɡɒn/, U.S. /ɡɔn/, /ɡɑn/) reflects shortening of the reflex of Middle English long open ō (< Old English ā ). The initial a- in some English regional (southern) forms of the past participle (e.g. a-gone at Forms 7α. , a-go , a-goo at Forms 7γ. , and also a-goned in Forms 7ζ. forms) apparently reflects a regional variant of y- prefix (see a- prefix2 2), but compare (with different prefix) agone adj., ago adj. The perfect tense of go v., as in other verbs of motion, was originally formed with auxiliary be (compare be v. 16b), and this is still used where the tense expresses a state (see gone adj. 1a(a)). In other uses auxiliary have is now the norm (in common with other verbs). 3. Notes on specific senses. With sense 25a compare Old English gān tō weorþe (or tō cēape) to be sold or offered for sale (compare worth n.1, cheap n.1). With use in collocation with and (see senses 30c and 32b(b)) compare similar collocations of vādere or īre with et in classical Latin. In sense 31c in biblical and religious contexts ultimately after Hebrew bō' 'el, lit. ‘to go in to (a woman)’; compare classical Latin ingredī to enter (see ingredient adj.) in its post-classical Latin sense ‘to have sexual intercourse with (a woman)’ (Vulgate), itself ultimately after the Hebrew verb, and ingo v. With uses expressing the future (see sense 51) compare similar uses of the verb ‘to go’ followed by the infinitive in some Romance languages. In English, this is usually expressed with a progressive construction using the present participle (to be going to ; compare gointer v., gonna v.,gunna v., and gon v.); with a similar use of the uninflected form go in West African (especially Nigerian) English (see sense 51b) perhaps influenced by similar constructions in one or more West African languages. 4. Prefixed forms in Old English. In Old English the prefixed form gegān i-go v. is also attested in many of the same senses (as the more common form in sense 9a, and earlier in senses 9b, 44c, 45a), as well as in senses not attested for the simplex (especially with the idea of attainment), as ‘to get, obtain, conquer, to get to (a place, point, or person), to get (something) done, perform, practise’; compare also abūtangān to make the circuit of, walk about (compare about adv.), agān ago v., ætgān atgo v., aweggān (see away-go at away adv., adj., and n. Compounds 1a), beforangān (see before-go vb. at before adv., prep., conj., and n. Compounds 3), begān bego v., binnangān to enter (compare bin adv.), foregān forego v., forgān forgo v., forþgān forthgo v., framgān to go away, go out, depart (compare from prep.), fullgān to engage wholly in, accomplish, carry out, to help, to attain (compare full adv.), geondgān to pass through, to go about (compare yond prep.), ingān ingo v., niþergān to descend (compare nether adv.1), ofgān ofgo v., ofergān overgo v., ongān to approach, to enter into, to attack (compare on- prefix), ongēangān again-go v., oþgān to go away, escape (compare oth prep.), tōgān to-go v., þurhgān through-go v., undergān undergo v., ūtgān outgo v., wiþgān withgo v., ymbgān umbego v.
Go is the most general verb of motion in English, used to express literal or figurative movement (i) irrespective of the point of departure or destination, (ii) away from a place, person, or thing, or (iii) towards a place, person, or thing, or in a particular direction. The verb is thus on the whole co-extensive with Latin ire. In uses (ii) and (iii) it is comparable to come v. (Latin venire), from which it differs by the implication that the movement is not towards the place occupied (in fact or in thought) by the speaker. Like come, go denotes both self-originated and passive movement, though the former is the primary application.
I. To move or travel (without reference to the point of departure or destination), and related senses.
1.
†a. intransitive. To walk; to move or travel on foot (as opposed to any other means of locomotion, as creep, ride, swim, etc.); (sometimes spec.) to move on foot at an ordinary pace (as opposed to run, etc.). Obsolete.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)]
treadc897
stepc900
goeOE
gangOE
walka1375
wanderc1380
foota1425
to take to footc1440
awalkc1540
trade1547
beat it on the hoof1570
pad1610
to be (also beat, pad) upon the hoofa1616
trample1624
to pad (also pad upon) the hoof1683
ambulate1724
shank1773
stump it1803
pedestrianize1811
pedestrianate1845
tramp it1862
ankle1916
eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iii. xii. 196 Geaf he & sealde þæt betste hors..Aidane þæm biscope, þeah þe he gewuna wære þæt he ma eode þonne he ride.
OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 14 Ða gesceafta þe þæs an scyppend gesceop synden mænigfealde... Sume gað on twam fotum, sume on feower fotum.
OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xi. 5 Blinde geseoþ, healte gað [L. ambulant].
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 9511 Me miȝte boþe ride & go In temese vpe þe yse.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 403 They fiȝteþ better..Whan þey gooþ þan whan þei rideþ.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 493 That oother where hym list may ride or go.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 1076 (MED) He was halt and myght noȝt go.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. lxv He..made..the lame to go.
1555 Lydgate's Auncient Hist. Warres betwixte Grecians & Troyans i. i. sig. B.iii/2 Men..Which on their fete vpright gan to gon.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear iv. 117 Ride more then thou goest . View more context for this quotation
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. B7v These only amongst crustates swimme not, but goe.
1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 159 I have resolved..to run when I can, to go when I cannot run, and to creep when I cannot go.
1707 I. Watts Hymns & Spiritual Songs ii. 109 Our souls can neither fly nor go To reach Eternal Joys.
1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins I. xviii. 179 A charming Child, able to go in his twelfth Month.
1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man iv. 52 I'm so frightned, I scarce know whether I sit, stand, or go.
1836 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada 57 There is an old saying..that I used to hear when I was a boy, ‘first creep and then go!’
b. intransitive. With various complements indicating the manner of movement. Esp. of a horse: to walk or step in a specified manner. Now somewhat rare. to go the wrong end before: (of a horse) to walk too strongly on the hind legs. to go above one's ground: (of a horse) to step high.See also to go narrow at narrow adv. 3b, to go short at short adj., n., and adv. Additions.to go wide: see wide adv. 2b.
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OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 14 Se man ana gæð uprihte.
?c1250 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Egerton) 347 in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 181 Þos god un-ieþe to-ȝeanes þe cliue aȝean þe heȝe hulle.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xxx. 29 Thre thingus ben, that weel gon, and the ferthe, that goth welsumly.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 13106 (MED) Messels er hale, cripels gas [Trin. Cambr. go] right.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 115v If he [sc. a horse]..goeth wide, his pace wilbe the surer.
1681 London Gaz. No. 1638/8 Stolen or strayed..a young Black Gelding..goes narrow behind.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 77 My Horse went very aukwardly and uneasy.
a1732 T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 8 A slip of the foot may soon be made, which will make a man go halting all along after.
1735 Amer. Weekly Mercury 17 July (advt.) Ran away the 16th last..a Servant Man... He goes crooked; and groans very much in his Sleep.
1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. i. 40 I don't think our saying, such a Horse goes the wrong End before, altogether improper, when we speak it of a Horse that goes wide before, and near behind.
1791 ‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsemanship x. 45 That a horse could not go too much above his ground.
1825 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. iii. vii. i. 888 The elevation of the fore parts, or the horse's going above his ground, is not altogether dependant on the motion of the shoulders.
1838 J. Grant Sketches London 39 Do you think, man, that ye can gae like a cripple?
1902 Jrnl. Royal united Service Inst. July 960 Their [sc. the Boer horses'] hoof is an ideal hoof. It..can be long used on rocky ground before the horse shows any sign of going short.
2009 Augusta (Georgia) Chron. (Nexis) 29 Jan. c1 Every mistake is magnified because of the size and the shape and the depth of the ground... So If your horse goes too short or too far, it really shows big.
†c. intransitive. More generally: to be alive and active; to live. Chiefly with prepositional phrase, esp. in to go on (also upon) the earth, ground, etc. Cf. to pass on earth (also mould) at pass v. 42. Obsolete.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > [verb (intransitive)]
liveeOE
aliveeOE
ylivec950
won971
goc1225
movea1325
breathea1382
reigna1400
to pass on earth (also mould)c1400
to draw (one's) breath?1570
exist1578
respire1619
to tread clay, this earth, shoe leather1789
to grab on1861
to store the kin1866
c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) 703 (MED) Igripe ha me eanes, ne ga i neauer mare þrefter o grene.
?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 109 God him ȝed an erþ here xxxti winter and somdel mo.
c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 1669 In hise [sc. Jason's] dayis nas ther non I-founde So fals a louere goinge on the grounde.
a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) l. 2393 As saffe, as hole as he vpone vrthe ȝede.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 157 Ȝe tailȝouris, with weil maid clais Can mend the werst maid man that gais.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Nov. 39 The fayrest May she was that euer went.
1609 R. Johnson Nova Britannia sig. D2v Moses the man of God, whose..courage was incomparable, and yet the meekest man that went vpon the earth.
1656 R. Flecknoe Diarium 76 It would puzzle As faire a maid as went on the ground, To see she had got so ugly a muzzle.
1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides sig. H2 I would not offer..the least Injury to the poorest Man or Woman, that goes upon the Earth.
1799 W. Forbes Seal of Little Bk. 36 One that died without repentance in the church was 5 or 6 years going upon the earth a perfect corpse.
1815 D. Wordsworth Mother's Return in W. Wordsworth Poems I. 13 The lambs that in the meadow go.
†d. intransitive. Of a domestic animal: to be kept or pastured on a piece of land. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (intransitive)] > pasture animals
leasowc950
go1472
grazec1645
1472–3 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 204 I will that my wife gife to youg John Savell a gra horse trotyng whiche gois in the parke.
1571 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1986) (modernized text) III. 231 All the stock that they hath already going of my ground.
1587 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 288 One stud mare..going now in Langshawes.
1682 W. Hickes Grammatical Drollery 75 Thou sha't ha the Cream of all the Milk Of the Cows that go on the Greena.
1766 T. Cunningham New Treat. Laws conc. Tithes (ed. 2) vii. 191 There was a Modus of fourpence per score of all sheep going on Gayerfield.
1798 H. Wood Coll. Decrees Court Exchequer in Tithe-causes I. 211 The sheep and cattle going on the commons of the said farm.
2.
a. To move, travel, journey (by any form of locomotion, whether on land, on water, in the air, or in space).
(a) intransitive. Alone or with adverb, adverbial phrase, or prepositional phrase indicating place or direction.
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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)]
nimeOE
becomec885
teec888
goeOE
i-goc900
lithec900
wendeOE
i-farec950
yongc950
to wend one's streetOE
fare971
i-wende971
shakeOE
winda1000
meteOE
wendOE
strikec1175
seekc1200
wevec1200
drawa1225
stira1225
glidea1275
kenc1275
movec1275
teemc1275
tightc1275
till1297
chevec1300
strake13..
travelc1300
choosec1320
to choose one's gatea1325
journeyc1330
reachc1330
repairc1330
wisec1330
cairc1340
covera1375
dressa1375
passa1375
tenda1375
puta1382
proceedc1392
doa1400
fanda1400
haunta1400
snya1400
take?a1400
thrilla1400
trace?a1400
trinea1400
fangc1400
to make (also have) resortc1425
to make one's repair (to)c1425
resort1429
ayrec1440
havea1450
speer?c1450
rokec1475
wina1500
hent1508
persevere?1521
pursuec1540
rechec1540
yede1563
bing1567
march1568
to go one's ways1581
groyl1582
yode1587
sally1590
track1590
way1596
frame1609
trickle1629
recur1654
wag1684
fadge1694
haul1802
hike1809
to get around1849
riddle1856
bat1867
biff1923
truck1925
the world > movement > progressive motion > move along [verb (intransitive)]
goeOE
lithec900
nimOE
fare971
shakeOE
strikea1000
gangOE
gengOE
seekc1000
glidea1275
wevec1300
hove1390
drevea1400
sway?a1400
wainc1540
discoursea1547
yede1563
trot1612
to get along1683
locomove1792
locomote1831
eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xi. 67 Nals na sua sua healt monn oððe untrum, hwilum hie gað, hwilum hie restað.
OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) iii. 14 God cwæð to ðære næddran:..ðu gæst on ðinum breoste.
a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 83 Hie gon to chirche..for to biregen nehebores speche.
c1330 Seven Sages (Auch.) (1933) l. 872 To gon þerinne [i.e. in the forest] ech man agros.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4803 (MED) Gas warli thoru vncuth land.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 21v The weedes..so thicke, as you can scarse see where the Coulter hath gone.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xiv. sig. Y6 And so she went, & she went, & neuer rested the euening, wher she went in the morning; til [etc.].
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 158 There was not one But forced forth the venomd-bloud, along his sides to gone.
a1656 J. Hales Golden Remains (1659) i. 150 He saw a woman going in the streets.., her spindle in her hand twisting her threed as she went.
1733 T. Newcomb Manners of Age iv. 109 Rolling balls of snow, That swell in bulk, and gather as they go.
1797 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor VI. xvi. 189 As I was become very cautious in money matters, I meant to go by the coach.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) v. 45 Winkle, will you go on horseback?
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 348 Scipio..had moved forward from his head quarters at Tunis, plundering and enslaving as he went.
1909 Green Bk. Album July 117/1 This beautiful woman..leaves a train of admirers wherever she goes.
1992 Sports Q. Winter 72/1 He sprinted round and round the cricket square, sweating buckets as he went.
2009 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Feb. 51/2 Deep-space vehicles going past Mars.
(b) intransitive. With complement indicating the distance travelled.Also in the infinitive with preceding complement indicating the distance remaining to be travelled. Cf. sense 9c.
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OE Rule St. Benet (Corpus Cambr.) vii. 28 Se gæþ sylfwilles twa mila, to anre geneadod, þonne he bið oferswiðed fram þam yfelan, he gewænt þane yfelan to gode.
lOE Homily (Corpus Cambr. 303) in J. Bazire & J. E. Cross Eleven Old Eng. Rogationtide Homilies (1989) 62 Þa com Cristes stefn of hefenum to eorðan and let dynian..on ælc þæra manna þe an fodspor gesceod eode mid þam halgan reliquium.
a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 127 Se ðe net þe to gonne mid him twa milen, ga mid him þrie.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 14195 Qua has to ga any way. gode is to ga on liȝt of day.
?a1425 Constit. Masonry (Royal 17 A.i) in J. O. Halliwell Early Hist. Freemasonry in Eng. (1844) l. 677 Uche fote that thou gost then.
?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 32 No weddid man owiþ to leue his wife..& goo many hundred myles in drede of þeues & enemyes.
1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 189 They..had not gone many steps, when as they met with the counsailer that met with them in the streete aforesaid.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 268 Hauing gone so much ground as she did before, she [sc. the hare] betaketh her to rest the second time.
1677 G. Miege New Dict. French & Eng. ii. sig. V4/2 To go three miles in an hour.
1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 109 They marched at a great Rate, and would soon have tired our People, if they had had far to go, and had been pursued by them.
1724 E. F. Haywood Rash Resolve i. 22 They all went five or six Miles without stopping or speaking to each other.
1842 Parley's Mag. 10 33/1 He then took me out into the fields..and we went a long way.
1887 G. R. Sims Mary Jane's Mem. 49 Oh, the nice cakes she made..I'd go miles for one now.
1905 Motor World 8 Mar. 341/1 When we reached Annotta Bay we still had thirty-three miles to go.
1921 Patent & Trade Mark Rev. Apr. 196/1 The first tanks..never went 100 yards without something going wrong.
1998 T. Bennett Good Life 32 One of my favorite things to do was ice-skate on the beautiful St. Lawrence river... I'd go for miles and miles.
(c) intransitive. With participle indicating a concomitant action or activity.Cf. the formally similar sense 30f(b).
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OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xvi. 161 Þa eodon hi sprecende ymbe þæs hælendes þrowunge him betwynan.
OE King Ælfred tr. Psalms (Paris) (2001) xxxiii. 10 Þa welegan wædledon and eodon biddende, and hi hingrode.
c1300 St. Thomas Apostle (Laud) l. 84 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 379 He eode singuynde op an doun.
c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 338 Bet him wel..Þat his teþ al to-breste; Or on þe hed ponne hard, Þat he go wryȝinge þenneward.
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iii. xxx. 152 Boistows j am, and haltinge, and wronge. To the birly j go hippinge.
1483 Gower's Confessio Amantis (Caxton) ii. f. xxxv/1 They go walkyng [a1393 Fairf. go walkende] on the stronde.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. xxiii. sig. T.v Thei..went preachyng that name about from house to house to.
1548 F. Bryan tr. A. de Guevara Dispraise Life Courtier xviii. sig. n.v Alwaies I wente askyng & serchyng newes of the affaires of ye court.
1615 E. Grimeston tr. P. d'Avity Estates 563 The citisens..go begging their bread and singing from doore to doore.
1658 tr. S. de Cyrano de Bergerac Satyrical Characters xxxv. 129 The Duke of Clarence..went looking about for Diogenes.
1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 10 A Palphry Proud, prick'd up with Pride, Went prancing on the Way.
1775 E. Burke Speech Amer. Taxation 16 Your ministerial directors..then went mumping with a sore leg in America, canting, and whining.
1841 E. C. Gaskell Lett. (1966) 43 The little girls with their empty milk pails went dancing along the road.
1895 Argosy Sept. 504/1 The other grasped the light piece of headgear as it went sailing by.
1930 Oxf. Ann. Girls 85/1 The girls went rushing down the stairs and along the corridors.
1988 M. Bishop Unicorn Mountain (1989) xxx. 352 The cat went sprawling on its chin.
2013 J. Miles Want Not i. vii. 132 Chivers Holley went sniffing down the dorm hallway.
(d) intransitive. With adverb, adverbial phrase, prepositional phrase, or adjective as complement indicating the manner or speed of movement, or amount of physical energy expended. Also figurative.See also to go great guns at great gun n. Phrases 2, to go the pace at pace n.1 Phrases 1b.
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c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) 4116 A lyoun þai seye cominde þo, Bot a smal pas no miȝt he go..& weri he was.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xli. 1190 He [sc. the colte] is y-taught..to gon esiliche and softe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 5191 Childer he seide go we stronge Into egipte þinke me longe.
c1460 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Laud) l. 19076 (MED) A grete pas to the tempyll he gos.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 250 Who had horses so charged with baggage, that they might scant go any great pace.
1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 307 How well that barke goeth with the saile.
a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters 66 in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) He goes strong with his witnesses.
a1625 H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. 2301) (at cited word) When a Shipp sailes, and the Sheate is veered-out, wee saie she goes veering.
1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Ccv/2 To go fast or softly..aller vite ou bellement.
1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. xii. 233 The plough..goes steadily.
1824 London Lit. Gaz. 28 Feb. 139/1 She sat alone in the boat, as it went Calm thro' the sleep-hushed element.
1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters III. 309 It does..a man..no harm to go slow.
1893 Sketch 15 Feb. 178/1 The Government..are going very strong, as the rowing-man says.
1909 Trade 17 Nov. 9/1 I had a long ride in a powerful automobile. We went like blazes.
1990 P. J. Kemp T-Class Submarine 134/2 [HMS] Totem..recorded regularly going at 18 knots.
b. transitive. With the action of travelling as object. To travel or journey on (a journey, voyage, etc.).In later use also regional in to go an errand at errand n. 2b, to go the messages at message n. 1c.See also to go the circuit of at circuit n. 3d.In expressions such as go a pilgrimage, go a procession in early Middle English (cf. quots. a1200, c1300), probably showing sense 30d constructed with a prep.1 2, but interpretation of the latter as the indefinite article may have contributed to the rise of the current use.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > make a circuit
compassc1384
go1826
a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 89 It is custume þat ech chirchsocne goð þis dai a procession.
c1300 Ministry & Passion of Christ (Laud) (1873) l. 647 (MED) He tolde of a man þat a pilegrimage wende.]
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 811 (MED) Woldez þou go myn ernde To þe heȝ lorde of þis hous?
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 72 Such men sulde..go no messagies.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection Pref. sig. Ai Al christians goeth this pilgrymage.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 8 He was euen doggue werie, and clene tiered with goyng a long iourney.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 38 Little boyes..who are ready..to runne, go arrands or the like.
1642 W. Price Serm. 4 Men use to goe (saith Seneca) not the way that should be gone, but that way which is most gone.
1669 Lady Chaworth Let. in Hist. MSS Comm.: 12th Rep.: App. Pt. V (1889) 12 in Parl. Papers (C. 5889–II) XLIV. 393 They talk heere as if the King would goe a northerne progresse this summer.
1671 tr. A. Charant Let. conc. Countrys King of Tafiletta 15 in tr. R. Fréjus Relation Voy. Mauritania This Voyage is only gone in the night time.
c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 216 Had I known ye Danger before, I should not have been very willing to have gone it [sc. a passage].
1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iii. 83 As Elijah said to the Priests of Baal, he might be busy, or asleep, or gone a Journey.
1826 New Monthly Mag. 16 130 Pomposo still goes the circuit.
1883 W. Black Yolande III. x. 190 He wants me to go a cruise with him.
1908 C. G. Harper Half-hours with Highwaymen I. xi. 165 While the sheriff rode in his carriage, the real hero of the day was obliged to go the journey in a cart.
1913 J. Muir Story Boyhood & Youth viii. 274 I was paying board by taking care of a pair of horses and going errands.
1984 J. Kelman Busconductor Hines 96 She had merely gone a message and forgotten to advise him beforehand.
1992 Glasgow Herald (Nexis) 19 Mar. 14 People..have to go long journeys to have their babies in mainland hospitals.
†c. transitive. To cross (a river); to traverse (a tract of country). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > [verb (transitive)] > traverse a distance or ground
runeOE
overcomeOE
meteOE
through-gangOE
passc1300
to pass over ——c1300
overpassc1325
tracec1381
travela1393
traverse?a1400
travelc1400
measure?a1425
walkc1450
go1483
journey1531
peragrate1542
trade1548
overspin1553
overtrace1573
tract1579
progress1587
invade1590
waste1590
wear1596
march1606
void1608
recovera1625
expatiate1627
lustrate1721
do1795
slip1817
cover1818
clear1823
track1823
itinerate1830
betravel1852
to roll off1867
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (transitive)]
thoroughfareeOE
overrunOE
through-goOE
through-gangOE
passc1300
traverse?a1400
go1483
transcur1528
sweep1600
oversweep1612
supermeate1656
percur1835
overmeasure1896
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. xlviiv/1 With my staf I haue goon this ryuer of Jordan.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Dec. 23 I went the wastefull woodes and forest wyde.
†d. transitive. To undertake, go through (a course of study). Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1683 A. Wood Life 28 Sept. (1848) When the elaboratorie was quite finisht certaine scholars went a course of chimistrie.
1692 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 114 Richard Smith..became a Student of Trin. Coll. about 1583, went a course there.
1717 W. Whiston Astron. Princ. of Relig. Reveal'd vi. 118 He must be stupid to the utmost Degree, who can go a Course of Mechanicks..without the most satisfactory Conviction in this Case.
e. intransitive. Fox-hunting. Of a person: to ride in a hunt. Frequently with well.
ΚΠ
1835 London & Paris Observer 22 Mar. 185/1 Mr. Wharton..used to go well over Oxfordshire.
1884 H. Smart From Post to Finish xxx. 219 There would be far too many there who had seen Gerald Rockingham ‘go’ with the York and Ainstey.
1900 J. M. K. Elliott Fifty Years Fox-hunting xi. 155 Mr. G. Campbell..went very straight... All the light-weight farmers could go well.
1992 Daily Tel. 18 Jan. (Weekend section) 1/4 Everything—including, it seems..digging up foxes—is forgiven if you ‘go well’.
3.
a. intransitive. With adverb, adverbial phrase, or prepositional phrase as complement. To take or follow a certain course or path. Frequently figurative: to follow a certain course of action or way of proceeding. Also transitive with the way, road, etc., as object.See also to go the rounds at round n.1 23a, to go one's own way at way n.1 and int.1 Phrases 1a(a), to go the wrong (also right, etc.) way to work at way n.1 18a.For fixed uses with adverbs, as to go awry, to go counter, to go right, to go wrong, etc., see the adverbs.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > behave, conduct, or bear oneself [verb (intransitive)] > direct one's course of action
goa1393
steer1658
eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) lxxx. 13 (14) Si plebs mea audisset me israhel, si uias meas ambulasset, ad nihilum inimicos eorum humiliassem : gif folc min geherde mec gif wegas mine eode to nowihte fiond heara ic geeaðmodade.
OE Beowulf (2008) 455 Gæð a wyrd swa hio scel.
OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) xxxvii. 15 Hyne gemitte ðær an man, þa he eode on gedwolan, and axode hyne hwæt he sohte.
c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Royal) (1934) 11 Þe weie þat ich am in bigunnen to ganne.
a1300 (?c1175) Poema Morale (McClean) 311 in Anglia (1907) 30 236 Go we alle in þilke paþ, & he us wule bringe..biuore þe heuenkinge.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. l. 17 I wolde go the middel weie And wryte a bok betwen the tweie, Somwhat of lust, somewhat of lore.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11736 (MED) We wil þe wai ga be þe se.
c1475 Antichrist & Disciples in J. H. Todd Three Treat. J. Wycklyffe (1851) p. clii Þei gon not þe streiȝt weie.
1555 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. xliv. 125 Alas! how should the people of God go the right way.
1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. C2 Nay turne it this way, then the bowle goes true.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. ii. 216 How ere the businesse goes, you haue made fault I'th boldnesse of your speech. View more context for this quotation
1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 23 If you go otherwise..it will be, as if you pleaded not at all.
a1688 J. Bunyan Heavenly Foot-man (1698) 20 Usually those by-paths are the most beaten, most Travellers go those ways.
1761 T. Gray Let. 24 Sept. in Corr. (1971) II. 755 The old Bishop of Lincoln with his stick went doddling by the side of the Queen.
1791 E. Inchbald Simple Story I. xvii. 231 He would have gone part of the way with her, but for the extreme illness of lord Elmwood.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) V. 498 Now if the use would have gone this way before the statute, it would still go the same way since the statute.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. ii. 24 An exhortation to..go outside of the barge which was coming up.
1879 M. J. Guest Lect. Hist. Eng. xlvii. 470 James continued to go contrary to the wishes of his people.
1895 ‘M. Corelli’ Sorrows Satan (1897) xxix. 353 She will never go my way,—nor, I fear, shall I ever go hers.
1918 ‘B. MacNamara’ Valley of Squinting Windows xxxii. 207 The windows were squinting through the gloom as he went the road.
1941 Life 21 Sept. 101 A country where traffic goes on the wrong side of the street.
2004 P. Goff & P. Harvey Themes in Relig. & Amer. Culture 365 The traditional evangelical churches disagreed over issues presented by modernity, with some going the route of fundamentalism.
b. intransitive. With complement indicating position or arrangement in space. Of a route, road, line of objects, etc.: to have its course, run. Cf. sense 29b.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > direction > point or lie in a direction [verb (intransitive)]
goeOE
wendOE
runOE
stretchc1400
strike1456
extend1481
point?1518
address1523
passc1550
tend1574
trend1598
conduce1624
direct1665
verge1726
shape1769
eOE Bounds (Sawyer 495) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1887) II. 541 Þonne gæð sio mearc forð andlang Bliðan west.
c1250 ( Royal Charter: Eadwig to Nuns of Wilton (Sawyer 582) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1893) III. 84 Þa gemæro synt þus genamode. Ærest of þare stræte æt þare ende hit gæþ up on ane furh oð þat hit cymð to þæs hlinches orde.
c1300 St. Michael (Laud) ll. 634, 635 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 317 Þe gret .se. of occean... A-boute al þe eorþe heo geth..Ase þe ȝwyte of þe Eye goth a-boute þe ȝeolke.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 4189 (MED) Lamedoun..smet A riche cercle from his basenet, Of large perle goyng enviroun.
1578 G. Best True Disc. Passage to Cathaya 20 Two Paralels..conteyning fortye Degrees in Latitude, goyng rounde aboute the earthe, according to Longitude.
a1652 S. Foster Elliptical Horologiography (1654) 176 Lines going through them, and going parallel also to the Index.
1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. 87 The path went all along between the Woods and the Sea.
1762 W. Jones Ess. First Princ. Nat. Philos. 255 The two streams..went perpendicularly downwards in two parallel lines.
1798 Traveller's Guide Scotl. 144 The road from Kelly bridge goes parallel to a perpendicular wall of rock.
1808 Scots. Mag. Apr. 251/2 The road for some miles goes along the top of a pretty high ridge.
1889 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Dec. 258 On either side went a range of berths.
1902 Votes & Proc. Legislative Assembly New South Wales 1901 6 687 The Western Division boundary goes on two sides of my holding.
1961 G. F. Chadwick Wks. Sir Joseph Paxton viii. 208 The line of the girdle, afterwards called the Great Victorian Way, had been carefully chosen so as not to go parallel with any important street.
1997 P. Schneider Adirondacks (1998) iii. 42 A columned porch went all the way around the house.
4.
a. intransitive. With adverb or prepositional phrase as complement. To have a specified (favourable or unfavourable) course or outcome; to turn out (well, badly, etc.); to fare, get on, progress, or proceed (with a specified degree of success). Frequently with non-referential subject, and in interrogative clauses with how. Also with with, for.See also to go (according) to plan at plan n. 1d, to go hard with at hard adv. Phrases 1, how's it going? at Phrases 2h(b).
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > result [verb (intransitive)] > turn out
goOE
farec1230
to come to proofc1330
shape1338
afarec1380
achievea1393
falla1398
sort1477
succeed1541
lucka1547
to fall out1556
redound1586
to come off1590
light1612
takea1625
result1626
issue1665
to turn out1731
eventuate1787
to roll out1801
to come away1823
to work out1839
pan1865
OE Dispute between Bp. Æðelstan & Wulfstan (Sawyer 1460) in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 164 Þæt [sc. the agreement] wæs þæt Leofric sealde Wulfstane & his suna..twegra þegna að & wære himsylf þridde þæt he [on þ]am ilcan wolde beon gehealden gif seo spæc to Leofrice eode s[wa s]wa heo þa wæs to Wulfstane gega[n].
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 17691 Drihhtin hu þe dom shall gan All wat. & æfre wisste.
?a1300 Sayings St. Bernard (Digby) in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 759 Þus hit goþ bitwenen hem two; Þat on seiþ ‘let’, þat oþer ‘do’.
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 3455 Now goth wel thyn affere He shall to thee be debonaire.
1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xxvii. 102 He vnderstode..that the thynge wente euyll for hym.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxvi. 229 Gerames..parceyued anone that the mater was lyke to go euyll.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Deut. v. 16 That it maye go well with the in the londe, which the Lorde thy God shall geue the.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. ii. 92 How goes the world with thee? View more context for this quotation
1625 C. Burges New Discouery Personal Tithes 36 We know how it went with Israel when there was no King among them.
1664 S. Pepys Diary 2 Mar. (1971) V. 73 He believes that things will go very high against the Chancellor.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 49. ⁋6 When Eubulus seems to intimate that Things go well.
1745 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 12 Nov. (1932) (modernized text) III. 695 He tells me that your Greek grammar goes pretty well.
1820 Examiner No. 627. 249/2 His partizans seeing how things were going.
1885 E. Lynn Linton Autobiogr. Christopher Kirkland III. vii. 241 All went merry as a wedding-bell.
1892 Eng. Illustr. Mag. 9 449 The annual dinner..never goes better than when he is in the chair.
1907 Brotherhood Locomotive Engineers Monthly Jrnl. Apr. 308/2 Things were going badly for him one night.
1955 B. Pym Less than Angels viii. 102 Things didn't go quite as we'd meant them to.
2012 Z. Mda Sometimes there is Void xiii. 448 The unveiling ceremony went without a hitch.
b. intransitive. Originally U.S. Of a person: to fare, get on, esp. with regard to health, welfare, etc. how are you going? (Australian and New Zealand): how are you doing? (often used as a conventional greeting or rhetorical question).
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > be or remain in specific state or condition [verb (intransitive)] > fare or get on
farec1000
chevec1300
timea1325
do1340
hapc1350
thrive?a1366
ferea1375
walka1400
chevise14..
fortunea1513
tidec1540
fend1781
go1920
1920 N. A. Hawkins Certain Success (ed. 3) xii. 374 This is my day. I'm going to fatten up my batting average while I'm going good.
1935 Gippsland (Victoria) Times 14 Oct. 6 Flokey walked in and said: ‘How are you going, Bob.’ I said: ‘How are you going, Jim.’ He said: ‘All right.’
1958 O. Ruhen Naked under Capricorn 118 ‘Why, hullo, Charlie,’ Ben said. ‘How are you going?’
1967 G. Jackson Let. 11 Oct. in Soledad Brother (1971) 133 I'm going pretty good here, no problems, no new ones anyway.
1988 D. McGill Dict. Kiwi Slang 59 How ya goin', mate?,..Kiwi greeting, fairly quintessential.
2010 A. Mackinnon et al. Hope 99 ‘Oh, how's your mother going?’ knowing that X's mother had been locked up for drug offences.
5.
a. intransitive. With adjective or prepositional phrase as complement. Of a person or animal: to be habitually or frequently in a specified state or condition (esp. an undesirable one, with reference to neglect, deprivation, or disadvantage). Cf. to go without —— at Phrasal verbs 2.See also to go short at short adj. 18d.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > be or remain in specific state or condition [verb (intransitive)] > be habitually in a state or condition
goOE
walkc1250
movea1382
wade1576
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > act habitually [verb (intransitive)] > do or be habitually
goOE
to have a way of1637
OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xx. 46 Warniað wið þa boceras ða þe wyllað on gegyrlum gan [L. ambulare], & lufiað gretinga on stræte.
OE Handbk. for Use of Confessor (Corpus Cambr. 201) in Anglia (1965) 83 32 Alecge þonne his wæpna and idele rænca, and nime stæf him on hand and ga bærefot georne, and do willen to lice oððe hæran.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 307 Insumer ȝe habbeð leaue barfot gan & sitten. Hosen wið uten uampeð ligge in hwase wule.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. liii. 945 Þey ȝeden ycrouned wiþ yuy þat serued in þe temple of Liber Pater þat highte Bachus also.
a1450 (c1400) in D. M. Grisdale 3 Middle Eng. Serm. (1939) 65 Þes lollardes, þay go barfot, þei gon openhed.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ii. 16 Then myght I go with a ryffen hood.
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. xl Wymen..sell theyr soules and bodyes to go gay.
?c1510 tr. Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. Aii This people goeth all naked.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xv. A I go childles [so 1611 King James].
c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) ii. 750 I see..How basely in apparrell he doth goe.
1618 G. Mynshul Ess. Prison 12 If another weare thy coate, and thou goest cold, thou maist plucke it from his shoulders.
1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love iv. 53 Piquing at each other, who shall go the best Drest.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 146 Why, he us'd to go very fine, when he was here in Town.
1773 J. Boswell Jrnl. 8 Oct. in Jrnl. Tour Hebrides (1785) 373 Horses..all go unshod here, except some of a better kind.
1848 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. (ed. 2) I. 144 There is an antient enactment..against going armed.
1878 Scribner's Monthly 15 788/2 The men drink; the children go in rags.
1888 G. MacDonald Elect Lady xvi. 144 Some girls miser their clothes, and never go decent.
1891 Temple Bar Dec. 481 Protestants went in mortal fear.
1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xxxiii. 382 Well, I don't want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life.
1960 Today 25 June 27 Many a faithful servant goes completely unrecognised.
2005 Evening Standard 31 Aug. (Standard Lite ed.) 23/3 His girth suggested he has not gone hungry.
b. intransitive. With an expression of duration of time as complement. To pass a period of time in a particular way, or in a specified state or condition; to subsist for a certain time without (doing) something. Cf. to go without —— at Phrasal verbs 2.
ΚΠ
1653 F. Higginson Brief Relation Irrelig. Northern Quakers 30 Two others of their societie, a Man, and a Woman,..went for some while..discovering their nakednesse to the eye of every beholder.
1796 Monthly Mag. Aug. 586/2 They went for many days in a state of actual outrageous mutiny.
1856 Putnam's Mag. Apr. 368/1 Spiders can go for months without food, and yet lose no strength.
1901 Recreation Feb. 117/1 We went days with no fresh water.
1917 W. S. Boyce Econ. & Social Hist. Chowan County, N. Carolina iv. 65 Many families had flour only once or twice a week, and not a few went for weeks at a time with none whatever.
1984 J. Gathorne-Hardy Doctors (1987) xxx. 285 I went for years thinking there was something..wrong with me.
2008 L. Sivertsen & T. Sivertsen Generation Green i. 12 Most of us can't go for long without..using a product that is somehow tied to the fossil fuel industry.
6. intransitive. Of a woman or female animal: to be pregnant (with offspring). Frequently with adverb or prepositional phrase as complement indicating the length of pregnancy. Now somewhat rare, but cf. gone adj. 3.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > be pregnant [verb (intransitive)]
goOE
to go with childc1300
baga1400
gravidate1623
breed1629
(to be) in an interesting condition1748
gestate1883
expect1906
infanticipate1934
the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > be pregnant [verb (intransitive)] > for specific time
goOE
OE Ælfric Old Test. Summary: Maccabees (Julius) in W. W. Skeat Ælfric's Lives of Saints (1900) II. 104 Feower and twentig monða gæð seo modor [sc. the pregnant elephant] mid folan.
lOE Homily: De Infantibus (Hatton 116) in Anglia (1888) 10 155 Warnige eac seo modor þonne heo mid cilde gæð þæt heo mid nanre higeleaste hit ne amyrre.
a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 135 (MED) Elizabet was liht of þe holie gost, þe was on þe child þe hie mide hiede.
c1390 (?c1350) Joseph of Arimathie (1871) l. 83 Hou scholde I gon with childe with-oute felau-schupe of mon?
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 5038 Wymmen..That desire and wolde fayne The pley of love they be so wilde And not coueite to go with childe.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 459 How þat ȝe ga sa..grete gud dame?
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ix. 88 If thou here any saghes sere..Of that lad, where that thou gase.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xx An ewe gothe with lambe .xx. wekes.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 220 Bitches..goe with young threescore daies.
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. B2v The woolf goeth a month or forty daies.
1717 G. Jacob Country Gentleman's Vade Mecum ii. 12 Your Mare, which always goes with Foal one Year wanting a Month.
1800 Ann. Reg. 1795 Nat. Hist. *84/2 The female goes two months, and then brings forth two young ones.
1845 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 5 i. 518 A mare goes somewhere about eleven months with young.
1861 G. W. Dasent tr. Story Burnt Njal I. lxxxvi. 20 There is something behind which he will like still less, for I go with child.
1888 Medico-chirurgical Jrnl. Mar. 25 During the time she was ‘going’ with child she suffered from metorrhagic discharge.
1910 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 17 Dec. 1934/1 Though they [sc. rats] go with young for six weeks, they have several litters in a year.
1970 A. Hoogerwerf Udjung Kulon xvi. 138 There are no indications of female rhino of 3-4 years old going with young.
7. intransitive. With prepositional phrase as complement.
a. To be guided by someone or something; to act in accordance with someone or something. Frequently with by, on, with. Cf. to go by —— 4 at Phrasal verbs 2, to go on —— 4 at Phrasal verbs 2.Also in fixed phrases, as to go with the tide, to go with the times, etc. to go with the crowd, to go with the herd, to go with the flow, to go with the stream: see the final element.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > act in accordance with [verb (transitive)]
goOE
sue?c1335
suit1647
act1649
to live up to1650
assimilate1792
OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 156 Se Florus wæs ða fyrmest þæra Francena þegna..and eall þæs cyninges ræd eode be his dihte.
OE Ælfric Homily (Corpus Cambr. 162) in B. Assmann Angelsächsische Homilien u. Heiligenleben (1889) 67 Hi sohton þone hælend, ac hi sohton hyne yfele... Swa hi hyne sohton, þæt hi sylfe hyne næfdon, ne we na þe swiþor, gyf hyt be heora willan eode.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 17857 Teȝȝre dede ȝede rihht, All affterr cristess bisne.
a1425 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 363 (MED) Men gon not bi resoun ne bi Goddis lawe..but putte þe pope here heierste juge, as ȝif he were god in erþe.
1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. lvijv/2 The whyche..went by hys commaundement holyly.
1580 T. N. tr. P. Mexía Pleasaunt Dialogue sig. D.i As for example, the disease of the Poxe, how ignorant were Phisitions in the cure, as long as they went by Science & Arte?
1608 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 50 I had the same desires when I went with the tyde.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. i. §17 When we go according to them [sc. our imaginations], it is impossible to apprehend things as our reason tells us they are.
1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal iii. 23 That's the measure I go by.
1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. viii. 25 The reasons that they went upon were very specious and probable.
1722 R. Steele Conscious Lovers iv. 51 I am sure I go by the best Rule imaginable.
1757 London Chron. 2 Apr. 325 For want of some fixt Principles, on which to go.
1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 190 The Somerset-house society..is perhaps the best criterion to go by.
1879 ‘Cavendish’ Card Ess. 109 Had he gone on the chances, he would have won.
1893 Rep. Iowa State Hort. Soc. 1892 27 434 We used the best and most scientific apparatus and went in accordance with the most approved directions and theories.
1934 M. V. Hughes London Child of Seventies i. vi. 61 At home we all ‘went’ by the dining-room clock, which was regularly kept ten minutes fast.
1971 New Scientist 19 Aug. 419 They are not likely to go upon the principle..that a scientist has the right to perform any experiment which will advance his knowledge.
2013 Cumberland (Maryland) Times-News (Nexis) 21 Oct. O'Malley stuck with his wildlife experts and went with their advice.
b. To be apportioned, determined, or regulated by something, or according to a particular principle or system. Also: †to be arranged in a particular order; to proceed from a supposition or idea (obsolete). Frequently with by.In Old English: (Grammar) (of a word or word form) to follow a specified inflectional pattern, to inflect in a particular way.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (intransitive)] > is determined by
goOE
OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 117 Þas twegen naman gað [c1225 Worcester goþ] æfter ðære ðriddan declinunge, þe maciað heora ablatiuum on i.
OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 199 Fero ic bere gæð ðus: fers ðu berst, fert he berð; et plvraliter ferimus we berað, fertis ge berað, ferunt hi berað.
c1425 Concordance Wycliffite Bible in Speculum (1968) 43 273 (MED) I clepe alle þo wordis þat goen bi lettre aftir þe ordre of þe a, b, c in þis present table.
1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xxi. f. liiv It shall go accordyng to hys intente.
a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1592) 622 Neither vertue nor vice goeth by age.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. x. 74 Lawes..must make common smaller offices to goe by lot.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. i. 105 Louing goes by haps. View more context for this quotation
1627 W. Bedell in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 136 Album Registrum Vestiarii, which went according to the letters of the alphabet.
1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. ii. 31 Now all this licentious Talk intirely goes upon a Supposition.
1777 J. Priestley Disquis. Matter & Spirit vi. 62 The Cartesian hypothesis..goes upon the idea that the essence of mind is thought.
1818 G. Graglia New Pocket Dict. Ital. & Eng. Langs. p. xxxii Conjugation of Verbs in isco... All their other tenses go like sentire.
1876 C. M. Yonge Cameos cxxix, in Monthly Packet Aug. 131 Nothing in that strange reign ever went by ordinary rules of justice or probability.
1892 Eng. Illustr. Mag. 9 908 Promotion goes solely by length of service.
1943 I. Paterson God of Machine ix. 87 The lucrative appointments go by party favor.
1999 S. De Santis Life on Line viii. 141 Secondary openings were to go by seniority, according to a plantwide agreement.
8.
a. intransitive. Of a coin, banknote, etc.: to be in circulation; to be accepted as currency. Also in figurative context. Cf. sense 25b. Now rare.
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society > trade and finance > money > circulation of money > be in circulation [verb (intransitive)]
gangOE
run1399
pass1475
servec1475
go1504
to pass, go, or run current1596
to take vent1641
circulate1691
float1778
OE Laws of Edgar (Nero A.i) iii. viii. 204 Ga an mynet ofer ealne þæs cynges anweald, & þane nan man ne forsace.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 157 (MED) Þat money goth [F. vait] thorgh out all the contree & þorgh out all his prouynces.
1504 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1504 §12. m. 13 The coynes of a sovereyn [etc.]..shall go and be curraunt in payment thorough all this his realme.
a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) 169 All maner of gold goth there.
1663 S. Pepys Diary 19 May (1971) IV. 144 Groats..as good, nay better, then those that commonly go.
1670 J. Dryden Tyrannick Love v. i. 61 Love is the only Coyn in Heav'n will go.
1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Ccv/2 This half Crown will never go, 'tis brass.
1753 tr. Traveller's Compan. & Guide 48 They have three Sorts of good Silver Coin, which is French Money,..and yet don't go in the Kingdom of France.
1813 Sporting Mag. 41 242 One of the shillings he was afraid, would not go.
1872 Punch 7 Sept. 101/2 Bank-notes, she supposes, will go everywhere.
1936 National Geogr. Mag. Apr. 501/2 Stone money still goes as currency on Yap.
†b. intransitive. Of money or a ransom: to be offered or accepted for someone or something. Obsolete.
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a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 9 Ȝef þu sungedest to-ward þine drihtene..nouþer gold ne seoluer ne moste gan for þe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4494 (MED) Bot sal it wit-in thre dais be, It sal na raunsun ga for þe.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 150 There sholde no golde go for hir lyff.
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. f. cxcviv/1 Aymergot Marcell began to dought and repented hym of that he hadde done, for he knewe well if that he were takenne, there shulde no raunsome go for hym.
9.
a. intransitive. Of time or a period of time: to pass, elapse. Cf. to go away 1 at Phrasal verbs 1, to go by 1 at Phrasal verbs 1, to go forth 1 at Phrasal verbs 1, to go on 1a at Phrasal verbs 1, to go round 3 at Phrasal verbs 1.In Old English gegān i-go v. is more common in this sense.Sometimes with the additional notion of a period of time passing away, disappearing, or coming to an end, hence passing into sense 22a in branch II.See also special uses of gone in branch IV.
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the world > time > [verb (intransitive)]
overgoeOE
agoeOE
goOE
forthgoOE
runOE
overdrivea1275
farea1325
overmetea1325
walka1325
passc1330
slidec1374
yern1377
to pass overa1382
wastec1385
waive1390
to pass awaya1400
overseyc1400
drive?c1450
to drive ona1470
slevea1510
to roll awaya1522
to roll overa1522
to wear out, forth1525
flit1574
to pass on1574
to run on1578
overhie1582
wear1597
overslip1607
spend1607
travel1609
to go bya1616
elapsea1644
to come round1650
efflux1660
to roll round1684
lapse1702
roll1731
to roll around1769
to roll by1790
transpire1824
to come around1829
tide1835
elabe1837
tick1937
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Mark vi. 35 Iam hora praeteriuit : soð tid is foregeead uel tid eade.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8907 Affterr þatt te tid wass gan. Þeȝȝ wenndenn fra þe temmple.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 56 (MED) Ine þise manere geþ þe tyme.
a1350 (a1250) Harrowing of Hell (Harl.) (1907) l. 72 (MED) Almost ys þritti wynter gan þat þou hast fonded me.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11281 (MED) Ten dais on þe monet was gan.
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 110 It es noȝt ȝit gane viiixx ȝere sen [etc.].
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 271 This passit our quhill diuers dayis war gane.
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. G4v Let him haue time to marke how slow time goes In time of sorrow. View more context for this quotation
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. E2v How goes the time?
1623 A. Taylor Divine Epist. sig. G4 Day went, night came, day comes, night goes againe.
a1738 H. Grove Wks. (1747) I. iii. 80 If we should see those years come and go, they would shrink in the wearing.
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 231 Yes ma'am, and no ma'am, utter'd softly, show Ev'ry five minutes how the minutes go.
1835 J. W. Carlyle Let. 15 June (1883) I. 20 One week and half of another is already gone.
1889 M. E. Kennard Landing Prize I. viii. 147 The afternoon went pleasantly enough.
1908 A. Griffiths Thrice Captive vii. 60 Nearly half an hour went before anyone appeared to admit us.
1959 H. E. Bates Breath of French Air (1962) 108 He only knew that the month at St. Pierre le Port seemed to have gone like the wind.
2002 R. Waterfield Hidden Depths (2004) xiii. 406 On drugs, time goes slowly enough for you easily to observe your thoughts.
†b. intransitive. Of an event, etc.: to take place, to occur. Obsolete.
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)]
becomec888
i-tidec888
falleOE
ywortheOE
i-limp975
belimpOE
i-timeOE
worthOE
tidea1131
goa1200
arearc1275
syec1275
betide1297
fere1297
risea1350
to come aboutc1350
overcomea1382
passa1393
comea1400
to come in (also to, on, etc.) placea1400
eschew?a1400
chevec1400
shapec1400
hold1462
to come (also go) to pass1481
proceed?1518
occura1522
bechance1527
overpass1530
sorta1535
succeed1537
adventurec1540
to fall toc1540
success1545
to fall forth1569
fadge1573
beword?1577
to fall in1578
happen1580
event1590
arrive1600
offer1601
grow1614
fudge1615
incur1626
evene1654
obvene1654
to take place1770
transpire1775
to go on1873
to show up1879
materialize1885
break1914
cook1932
to go down1946
OE Guthlac A 753 Eall þas geeodon in ussera tida timan.]
a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 3 (MED) Ure louerd ihesu cristes tocumes ben tweien..þe fireste is gon..þat oðer tocume beð on domes dai.
c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) l. 6913 Beoþ in vre londe wonder þenges goude [read gonde].
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 5275 A dreme lange siþen I. gan.
1609 in Digby Myst. (1882) p. xxiii When ye whitson playes weare played, then ye showe at midsomer wente not.
c. intransitive. In the infinitive, used as a postpositive clause. Of a period of time: to be left, remain; to be required to elapse. Hence of a quantity of something: to remain to be dealt with. Earliest in the context of marine racing.Formally coincident with some uses of sense 2a(b): cf. quot. 1905 at that sense.
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1881 ‘Rockwood’ Stories Sc. Sports 91 Fifteen seconds to go, and it is all anxiety. Five seconds gone, and yet she is not there.
1892 J. G. Blaine Let. 26 Feb. in Fur-seal Arbitration: App. Case U.S. before Tribunal I. 354 Our consul at Victoria, telegraphs to-day that there are—Forty-six schooners cleared to date. Six or seven more to go.
1909 H. Sutcliffe Priscilla of Good Intent xvi. 241 There were five minutes to go before the signal for the start.
1931 A. M. Lindbergh Let. 10 May in Hour of Gold (1973) 162 I've now had about two hours' solo work. Eight more to go before I can apply for a private pilot's license.
1951 Pop. Mech. Jan. 8/2 We're on the way, 1800 miles out over the Pacific, and four hours to go before we settle down on Hickam Field.
1995 R. M. Allen Allies & Aliens 125 I..asked, ‘How many more to go?’ He glanced down at a long list... ‘Let's see—that last group was from the Army of the Sixth Republic.’
2006 Big Issue Christmas 81/3 With only about ten minutes to go before he's due on stage, George Michael gallantly jumps up..to wish me farewell.
10.
a. intransitive. With reference to the body or a body part: to move or act so as to perform a particular function; (of the heart or pulse) to beat; (of the tongue) to talk, chatter.
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c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 70 Myne handes and my tonge goon so yerne That it is ioye to se my bisynesse.
1562 A. Brooke tr. M. Bandello Tragicall Hist. Romeus & Iuliet f. 60v No pulse shall goe, ne hart once beate within thy hollow brest.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Arteriæ micant, the pulses beate or goe.
1633 G. Herbert Love Unknown in Temple 123 Though my lips went, my heart did stay behind.
1660 Bloody Bed-roll (single sheet) What is the cause Sir Arthur Your Pulses go so quick?
1763 A. Murphy Citizen ii. 34 Her tongue goes like a water mill.
1836 G. P. R. James Darnley xxxiv. 311 Two women..whose fingers were going with the rapidity of lightning.
1889 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 581 She felt her heart ‘go’ in a most unusual manner.
1913 E. Mikkelsen Lost in Arctic i. 10 His tongue going nineteen to the dozen.
1978 M. McLaverty Coll. Short Stories (1997) 87 ‘I can feel his heart going like a traction engine,’ he said, when we were on the road again.
1990 S. King Stand (new ed.) i. ix. 77 Nick pinwheeled his arms and tried to make his legs go but his legs wouldn't oblige.
b. intransitive. Of a machine, mechanism, system, enterprise, etc.: to be set or kept in motion; to be in action or operation; to function, operate, run. Hence also of a person, human activities, etc. Also: (of fire) to be well alight, to burn vigorously.to get (something) going: see get v. Phrases 3g(b); to set (something) (a-)going: see set v.1 114c.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > operate [verb (intransitive)] > of a piece of mechanism
ganglOE
goc1450
movec1450
run1546
workc1610
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 5296 (MED) Þis selere was..Made..to meeue with engine; Twenti tamed Olifants turned it a-boute, Quirland all on queles..Sone begynnes it to gaa.
a1500 ( Chron. H. Knighton (1895) II. 139 Loke they mylne go ariȝt with the foure sayles.
?1537 T. Paynell in R. Benese Bk. Measurynge Lande Pref. sig. ✠.iiiv What soeuer goeth by weyghte, water, wynde or by cordes, as clockes, the whych go by weyghtes, and organes, the whych sounde by the vehemence and force of wynde.
a1636 J. Rogers Godly Expos. First Epist. Peter (1650) xv. 321 If the water run not, the Mill goes not.
1677 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier New Relation Seraglio vii. 40 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. (1678) Fifteen Ichoglans, the most robust that can be found, are employ'd in keeping the fire going.
1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xiv. 235 The Common Lathe that goes either with the Treddle Wheel or the great Wheel.
1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 3. 20 The Weaver..has not so many Looms going as he had a few Months ago.
1742 J. Ellicott in Philos. Trans. 1740–41 (Royal Soc.) 41 132 In a few Minutes it described an Arch of two Degrees, and the Clock went.
1774 Acct. Method securing Buildings (& Ships) against Fire 6 I have always applied Faggots and Combustibles, to set the Fire going.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. v. i. 338 My savings were..wanted to set us going in a genteel style among our country neighbours.
1871 F. W. A. Pike Every Day ix. 90 To alter the old nursery story, coal wouldn't burn, fire wouldn't go, water wouldn't heat.
1878 Scribner's Monthly 15 868/1 Everything will have to go like clockwork.
1888 W. J. Knox-Little Child of Stafferton xv. 205 She kept the conversation going.
1907 C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson Car of Destiny ix. 59 No scenery can be unattractive to a motorist while his car goes well.
1919 M. Sinclair Mary Olivier ii. vi. 88 I can make the sewing-machine go when you can't.
1925 J. Gregory Bab of Backwoods xi. 141 So they got the blaze going.
1973 G. Woods Vicky i. i, in R. Kalman Coll. Canad. Plays III. d9 Jenny..was bouncing a ball in the kitchen..an' the radio was going.
1983 Financial Times 16 Apr. 13/5 Filofax..has been going for years... Entirely British, based in Essex, it was started sometime in the 1920s.
2000 M. Swanwick Tales Old Earth 273 The engine was going and the heater and the windshield wiper too.
c. intransitive. With adverb complement. Of a clock or watch: to maintain a specified action; to keep good or bad time. Also figurative.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [verb (intransitive)] > go fast or slow
go1508
to go or run on wheels1738
to go wrong1809
gain1861
lose1861
1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. ll.v What profyteth a clocke be it neuer so well and craftely made, yf it stonde styll or go not as it sholde in a due and Iust course?
1560 J. Jewel Let. in J. Jewel & H. Cole True Copies Lett. sig. R.ii Howe soeuer the Sonne go, yet the clock must nedes go true.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iii. i. 187 Neuer going a right, being a Watch: But being watcht, that it may still go right. View more context for this quotation
1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. E2 The clocke at Ludgate sir, it nere goes true.
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre ii. xlvi. 107 These curious observations (like over-small watches) not one of a hundred goeth true.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 181. ⁋1 When we wind up a Clock that is out of Order, to make it go well for the future.
1767 J. Ferguson Tables & Tracts 106 The clock goes too fast.
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I xvii. 11 Even her minutest motions went as well As those of the best time-piece made by Harrison.
1860 W. Collins Woman in White (new ed.) III. 204 The watch goes beautifully.
1920 K. Mansfield Let. 16 Sept. (2004) 40 The clock goes perfectly but it has a surprised look and an interrogatory tick.
2008 R. Stannard Relativity: Very Short Introd. i. 7 Her clock was going slow.
d. intransitive. With adjective or adverb complement. Of the sea: to move with a specified type of current or wave. Esp. in to go high. Cf. to run high at high adv. Phrases 5. Now somewhat rare.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > have or be in specific kind of motion [verb (intransitive)]
go1565
cocker1669
1565 A. Golding tr. Caesar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia v. f. 108 Through the often chaunge of the tydes, he had perceyued that the Seas wente rougher there.
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias xxvi. f. 65 The winde was so great and the Seas went so high, that there was no tarrieng for him with his shippes.
1619 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Maides Trag. i. sig. C3 The sea goes hie, Boreas has rais'd a storme.
1633 T. James Strange Voy. 36 There went a..great Surfe. The Sea still went very loftie.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 7 The Sea..went very high.
?1775 Curiosities Nat. & Artific. VI. 39 The many strong tides..make the sea go very high upon the least contrary wind.
1841 J. de Lomba Let. 30 June in Corr. Brit. Commissioners relating to Slave Trade (1843) 120 The vessel was near going on shore.., it blowing just then very hard from the north-east and the sea going high.
1969 H. A. Werner Iron Coffins i. 33 The ocean went high, the wind swept hard.
e. intransitive. slang. Of a woman: to engage in sexual intercourse, esp. readily and without inhibition. Cf. goer n. 6.Predominantly in male heterosexual use.
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1638 Cuckolds Haven (single sheet) Not your Italian Locks..Can keepe these Hens from Cocks..So long as they can goe or ride, They'l haue their husbands hornify'd.
?1835 Secret Songster 6 She's got but von eye, and her mouth's all awry. But a rum 'un to go is Kate Randy.
1953 L. M. Uris Battle Cry v. v. 418 Do the broads go or don't they?
1983 G. M. Brown Voyages 11 Gossip about a Girl..‘She goes like the burdened bee’... ‘The slut. The shame.’
2001 T. Parsons One for my Baby xxxiii. 276 Oh, she's horny enough... Looks like she goes like the bloody clappers.
11. With reference to sound.
a. intransitive. Of a musical instrument (in early use esp. an organ): to be played, to produce sound or music. Also of music: to be performed or played.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > sound [verb (intransitive)]
goc1405
playa1522
speak1604
peal1849
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 32 His voys was murier than the myrie Orgon On massedayes þt in the chirche gon.
?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. gg.ivv The organs went and the bellys dyd rynge.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xv. xxiv. 439 To sing when the organs go.
1633 T. Nash Quaternio 172 If he heare at any time the Organs goe, or the Chaunters Chaunt, then he runnes away.
1668 S. Pepys Diary 20 Jan. (1976) IX. 30 To advise about the making of a flagelette to go low and saft.
1798 C. Leftley tr. J. W. von Goethe Clavidgo 89 (stage direction) The music goes a second time.
1840 Monthly Chron. Mar. 253 A few fifes and drums, going pleasantly to a good old English tune.
1893 A. R. H. Moncrieff Cap & Gown Comedy 288 I heard the piano going loudly in the drawing-room.
1908 Pall Mall Mag. Sept. 344/1 I heard the noise of a guitar going.
1982 T. Jordan Cowgirls v. 100 There was music going day and night.
2008 J. A. Friedman Tell Truth until they Bleed i. 25 You could hear and see through all the percussion, even with five guitars going.
b. intransitive. Of a bell, etc.: to be sounded as a signal or alarm. In later use also of a telephone or other device: to make a sound as an alert or alarm; to ring. Cf. to go off 2b at Phrasal verbs 1.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > thing heard > make sound [verb (intransitive)]
dinOE
sweyc1000
sounda1325
goa1450
speak1604
talk1793
to go off1810
a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) l. 1212 Whanne þe messe-belle goth Lye stylle, man, and take non hede.
1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders xviii. 157 They hear the passing bell go for them.
a1637 B. Jonson Magnetick Lady ii. iv. 24 in Wks. (1640) III Hearken how the Chimes goe.
1799 T. V. Okes Acct. Providential Preserv. of E. Woodcock 13 I have heard the bells go two Sundays for church.
1825 New Monthly Mag. 14 495 A bell shall go for hours telling us that Mr. Ching is dead.
1841 Fraser's Mag. 23 16 The bell goes for church, as also for dinner.
1870 Judy 30 Nov. 47/2 At 1:30 P.M...the luncheon-gong goes.
1892 E. P. Elmhurst Fox-hound, Forest, & Prairie 459 Beers decided to give in to his fox, though Holloas were going loudly in the village.
1906 Strand Mag. Dec. 631/2 The telephone went all day.
1931 Times 30 Nov. 5/1 The final whistle went giving London Welsh a narrow victory.
1977 R. Hall Middle Age Spread (1985) ix. 73 (stage direction) Door bell goes again.
2009 C. Davies Friends like Us 290 My mobile goes and it's Glen.
c.
(a) intransitive. To make a specified type of sound or noise, as to go bang, to go clatter, to go crash, etc.See also to go phut at phut adv., to go pit-a-pat at pit-a-pat adv., to go rip at rip adv., to go smash at smash v.1 8a, to go snap at snap v. 17a, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > be violent [verb (intransitive)] > burst violently from rest or restraint
abreakOE
outburstOE
outbreaka1450
reboil1477
to break forth1535
burst1542
to break out1574
go1583
fulminate1630
break1693
lasha1716
to rage out1720
rip1856
outflame1890
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. G8v Then snap go the fingers, ful brauely god wot.
1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore sig. K Her pulses..went pit a pat-pit a pat-pit a pat.
1672 J. Phillips Maronides 33 For ill advised of a rock, The ship with such a wannion strook; Rash went the Keel, crack went the prow.
1691 A. D'Anvers Academia 32 Rum, rum, the Organs go, and zlid.
1710 S. Centlivre Man's Bewitch'd ii. 13 One no sooner shuts ones Eyes—but slap goes a Door, clatter goes a Key.
1770 Hamilton's Life & Heroick Actions William Wallace (ESTC T107017) iv. iii. 45 How arms met arms, and swords went clishy clashy.
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 117 Tang goes the harpsichord.
1818 T. Moore Fudge Family in Paris viii. 2 My stays..I knew would go smash with me one of these days.
1887 S. Baring-Gould Gaverocks II. xxxiv. 200 Clatter, clatter, went the horses' hoofs.
1890 M. W. Hungerford Life's Remorse III. xi. 127 Patter, patter, goes the rain.
1930 Oxf. Ann. Girls 82/2 ‘Bah! It didn't even go bang!’ said Rita disgustedly.
1969 P. Dickinson Pride of Heroes 38 Mr. Singleton wore rubber-soled Hush-Puppies which went squeak-squeak on the shiny surface.
2010 E. Winslow Whole World 3 The elevator went ping at the top floor.
(b) intransitive. colloquial. Of a person: to utter a specified sound or noise. Later also used to report direct speech: to say, utter. Frequently in the historic present. Cf. be v. 21.
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the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)]
speakc825
queatheOE
forthdoc900
i-seggenc900
sayeOE
speak971
meleOE
quidOE
spella1000
forthbringc1000
givec1175
warpa1225
mootc1225
i-schirea1250
upbringa1250
outsay?c1250
spilec1275
talec1275
wisea1300
crackc1315
nevena1325
cast1330
rehearsec1330
roundc1330
spend1362
carpa1375
sermona1382
to speak outc1384
usea1387
minc1390
pronouncea1393
lancec1400
mellc1400
nurnc1400
slingc1400
tellc1400
wordc1400
yelpc1400
worka1425
utterc1444
outspeakc1449
yielda1450
arecchec1460
roose?a1475
cutc1525
to come forth with1532
bubble1536
prolate1542
report1548
prolocute1570
bespeak1579
wield1581
upbraid1587
up with (also mid) ——1594
name1595
upbrayc1600
discoursea1616
tonguea1616
to bring out1665
voice1665
emit1753
lip1789
to out with1802
pitch1811
go1836
to open one's head1843
vocabulize1861
shoot1915
verbal1920
be1982
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > [verb (transitive)] > utter
leadOE
givec1175
tell?c1225
talkc1275
to set upa1325
to put outc1350
soundc1374
to give upc1386
pronouncea1393
cough1393
moutha1400
profera1400
forth withc1400
utterc1400
to put forth1535
display1580
vent1602
accent1603
respeak1604
vocalize1669
fetch1707
go1836
outen1951
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ix. 85 He was roused by a loud shouting of the post-boy on the leader. ‘Yo-yo-yo-yo-yoe,’ went the first boy. ‘Yo-yo-yo-yoe!’ went the second.
1867 Scott's Monthly Mag. Feb. 156/2 ‘Booh-ooh-oo!’ went the man-cow.
1939 L. Brown Beer Barrel Polka (song) 3 They want to throw their cares away They all go lah-de-ah-de-ay.
1967 E. Marvin Odds Against iv. 49 So she goes, Oh yeah. So I goes, Well, there you are then.
1970 R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 19/2 So the cop stops us... Then he goes, ‘Were you drinking or something?’ And I go, ‘No, I don't drink,’ and he goes, ‘Okay.’
2013 G. Nash Wild Tales xv. 280 He spotted us sitting there and went: Oh, fuck!
†d. intransitive. Of a gun: to be discharged or fired. Cf. to go off 2a at Phrasal verbs 1. Obsolete except as merged with sense 10b.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > discharge firearms [verb (intransitive)] > of gun: go off or fire
fire1542
discharge1565
shoota1575
go1598
to let fly1611
scatter1736
poop1915
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres i. 3 A vollie of musket or hargubuze goeth with more terrour, fury, and execution, then doth your vollie of arrowes.
a1618 W. Raleigh Let. in Sceptick (1651) 111 I was no sooner come from him into my Cabbin, but I heard a Pistol go over my head.
1672 tr. Mem. Henrietta Silvia Moliere 46 She let the Pistol go, which wounded him with two bullets in his belly.
1809 C. Cuthbertson Santo Sebastiano (ed. 2) III. iii. 52 The guns go in unison with the merry bells.
1880 Daily Tel. 7 Sept. First gun goes to the boat ahead.
e. transitive. Of a clock or a clock's chimes: to strike (a specified hour). Also intransitive: †(of the hour) to be struck on a clock (obsolete). Cf. sense 49d. Now rare.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [verb (transitive)] > strike
strike1417
chime1550
go1675
repeat1675
1675 E. Pearse State of Northampton from Beginning of Fire 8 All-hallows Bells jangled their last and doleful Knell, presently after the Chimes had gone Twelve in a more pleasant Tune.
1709 M. Prior Hans Carvel 113 The Chimes went Twelve: the Guests withdrew.
1721 T. D'Urfey New Opera's 241 The Clock, said I, just Twelve has gone.
1793 E. Parsons Castle of Wolfenbach I. 1 The clock from the old castle had just gone eight.
1819 H. Brougham Forman I. ii. 29 The clock had gone midnight for..more than half an hour, when I heard the sound of somebody walking gently.
1877 W. Westall Tales & Legends Saxony & Lusatia 120 The clock went ten, and as the last stroke sounded, an ill-shaped..dwarf entered the priest's house.
1889 R. L. Stevenson Master of Ballantrae v. 133 Twelve was already gone some time upon the clock.
1918 L. W. De Laurence Old Bk. Magic xxviii. 357 The hoarse cry of the watchman..gave notice that the clock had just gone one in the morning.
12.
a. intransitive. Of a report, rumour, etc.: to circulate; to be or become widely current. Also with of, †on, †upon. Frequently with adverb, prepositional phrase, or that-clause as complement (sometimes with admixture of sense 14).Cf. to go abroad 2 at Phrasal verbs 1, to go out 5a at Phrasal verbs 1, to go round 1a at Phrasal verbs 1.See also to go current at current adj. 8.
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society > communication > information > reporting > report [verb (intransitive)] > of a report, etc.: pass from mouth to mouth
goc1450
c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) l. 12683 (MED) Þe word went all þat land how he his axhed hade.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 45/2 That thereby shall bee ceased the slaunderous rumoure and obloquye nowe goynge.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 297v Euen emiddes all this glye, the report goeth, that [etc.].
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. vv The fame went & many menne surely supposed kyng Edwardes chyldren not to be dead.
1623 W. Lisle in tr. Ælfric Saxon Treat. Old & New Test. Ded. sig. ¶2v He of whom that ancient tale hath gon.
a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 192 Something it is to haue a Fame goe on a Man.
1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. v. vi. sig. Ll2 I wonder not at the Story that goes of a Grand Signior.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 247 To try the truth of these scandalous reports that went upon the Clergy.
1745 W. Harris in Priv. Lett. Ld. Malmesbury (1870) I. 4 Now the story goes that he [sc. the young Pretender] is in the Highlands.
1849 J. B. Burke Anecd. Aristocracy II. 164 They had attacked, so went the report, and taken Barnard Castle.
1912 E. Sidgwick Herself vii. 99 The story went of him that on a gala opera-night..he had begun by turning his back on the stage.
1954 Boys' Life Aug. 43 The story went that, after finding the fabulously rich vein, the Spaniards had all been killed by Indians.
2010 S. I. Yastremski in S. I. Yastremski & M. M. Naydan tr. O. A. Sedakova Freedom to Believe 133 There was a rumor going that the artist tortured or killed the slave in order to achieve the realism of suffering.
†b. intransitive. Of a health or toast: to be passed round. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [verb (intransitive)] > be circulated
reela1500
walk1563
troll-the-bowl1575
trolla1627
go1698
circle1725
circulate1882
1698 H. Wanley Let. 30 Apr. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 257 Having dined with Madame Isted to day, where your health went over & over.
†13. intransitive. With adjective complement expressing comparison. To be reckoned or considered in relation to something. Frequently in to go equal with. Obsolete.
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1540 L. Ridley Comm. vpon Sayncte Paules Epyst. to Ephesyans v. sig. K.5 There be some also that wyll go equall with god and be checkmate with hym.
1582 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes iv. i. f. 365 He shal not equal, nor go euen with him in credit or reputation.
1663 J. Heath Flagellum (ed. 2) 3 A Gentleman who went no lesse in esteem..then any of his Ancestors.
1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon i. iii. 130 Had he apply'd himself wholly to his Book, [he] might have gone equal to the most famous Church-men of this latter age.
1678 tr. J.-F. Sarasin in Coll. Select Disc. France & Italy 43 This new Master, whose works pass Nature, whereas yours only went even with Nature.
1772 tr. J. A. Dumay Lett. to Mr. Kennicott 185 The text of the Psalms went equal with your ancient manuscripts.
14. intransitive. With adverb or sometimes with direct speech as complement. Of a statement, saying, account, etc.: to have a specified wording, content, or tenor. Cf. run v. 73e.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > drift, tenor, purport > to have a specified tenor [verb (intransitive)]
go?1576
?1576 A. Hall Let. touchyng Priuate Quarell sig. A.iv The first chapter..is intituled, Of controuersie and iudgement, and goes thus: I king Edwarde do againe and againe [etc.].
1577 G. Whetstone Remembraunce Gaskoigne sig. C2v The Prouerbe goes, he hath a Crowe to pull, Whiche takes a taske, the learned rules to showe.
1613 G. Wither Abuses Stript ii. i. sig. N4 For thus the saying goes, and I hold so, Ignorance onely, is true wisedomes foe.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. iii. 85 You shall be King... And Thane of Cawdor too: went it not so?
1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin iv. 314 The General cry went still, Ay! one and all! Let the Proud Pulpit, Let the Pulpit fall!
1708 C. Leslie Socinian Controv. Discuss'd ii. 42 Then the verse goes thus. Thou (Christ) hast received Gifts in the Man.
1793 M. Pilkington Rosina I. xxvii. 214 It is a bad bird, as the saying goes, that bewrays its own nest.
1839 R. Dawes Geraldine iii. iii. 165 It was a sweet ballad... It went thus: ‘The Elf-King breathed in its infant ear [etc.]’.
1845 Lowell (Mass.) Offering Sept. 213 ‘In a shady, forest nook Down by a limpid brook.’ So the song went.
1906 Overland Monthly Mar. 205/1 The legend about him goes something like this, I believe. It seems that Yamodzu [etc.]
1998 B. Clayton Praying for Base Hits xiii. 170 ‘Clash in Saigon’ went the headline in the Kansas City Star that April day.
2004 K. Bruen Dramatist (2007) 182 Next morning I felt, as the lines go: ‘Drained of all But memories of you.’
15.
a. intransitive. Of speech, verse, etc.: to glide along smoothly, proceed fluently; to flow, run. Frequently with adverbial or prepositional phrase as complement.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > have rhythm [verb (intransitive)] > glide rhythmically
go1584
1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. E.iiij Their heauenly secrets all discloes, In learned verse, that softly slydes and goes.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. vii. 9 When they could make their verses goe all in ryme.
1658 A. Cokayne Chain of Golden Poems 45 Lady, in your applause verse goes as slow and dull as heavy prose.
1666 S. Pepys Diary 23 Feb. (1972) VII. 53 Teaching her my song of ‘Beauty retire’, which she sings and makes go most rarely.
1879 ‘A. Thomas’ London Season II. 79 They [sc. verses] ‘go’ easily enough.
1882 R. L. Stevenson Familiar Stud. Men & Bks. 289 The lines go with a lilt.
1892 Harper's Mag. June 78/1 The facility of their [sc. the Spanish dramatists'] trochaic measure, in which the verses seem to go of themselves.
1929 I. A. Richards Pract. Crit. (2004) ii. ix. 119 The metre, too, is appropriate to the mood, the verse goes with a swing, one might say.
1992 Classic CD May 94/2 The lighter nuances of the later tenor songs go with great delicacy and imagination.
b. intransitive. Of verse, a song, etc.: to be put, or admit of being sung, to a particular tune.In quot. 1600: †(of a song) to admit of being sung in a certain way (obsolete).
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1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. iv. 40 Clap's into Light a loue, (that goes without a burden). View more context for this quotation
1615 T. Dekker Cold Yeare sig. A4v Your Northern song went to a wrong tune.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 286 This is a passing merry one, and goes to the tune of two maids wooing a man. View more context for this quotation
1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love ii. 16 Pray let me hear it: I hope it will go to the tune of one of our Passa-calles.
1702 R. Steele Funeral ii. 28 I con'd this Song before I came in, and find t'will go to an excellent Air of Old Mr. Laws's.
1758 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 8 Nov. (1967) III. 187 I wrote extempore on the back of the Song some stanzas that went perfectly well to the Tune.
1870 J. Gilmour Diary 20 Aug. in More about Mongols (1893) ii. 59 Heard a beggar singing a song which went to an air that much resembled the trip of a negro melody.
1881 W. M. Hardinge Clifford Gray vii. 109 It occurred to me of a sudden that our litany would go to the tune of that comic song.
1906 Living Age 24 Nov. 489/2 The fine pagan lyric went to a swinging tune that suited it well.
1917 H. R. Garis Jacko & Jumpo Kinkytail xxvi. 175 And this was the song, which goes to the tune of ‘Rinky-tinky diddily-dum’.
2009 Gold Coast Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 24 Jan. 14 Try singing it [sc. a poem]. It goes to the tune of My Favourite Things from The Sound of Music.
16. intransitive. In the progressive, chiefly in postmodifying clauses. To be available, accessible, or within reach; to be current or prevalent. Cf. if it's going at Phrases 3g.See also to have something going (with someone) at something n. 4g.
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1637 F. Rous Archæologia Atticæ i. iii. 14 They often met in Barbers shops, where all the newes, that was going in those daies, was currant.
a1668 J. Alleine Divers Pract. Cases Conscience (1672) ii. 50 If he will not take a penny of his neighbours estate, he is most unmerciful to his good name, and will take up any report that is going.
1720 R. Wodrow Let. 16 Feb. in Corr. (1843) II. 510 That you may have any thing that is agoing, please to receive [etc.].
1790 By-stander 392 I says we beggars be the cleverest fellows going.
1831 C. Darwin Let. 11 July in Corr. (1985) I. 125 I will venture to say I have measured them as accurately as any Geologist going could do.
1861 Westm. Rev. July 276 The famous Cambridge professor, who spouted Greek as fast as he swallowed brandy, or when there was nothing better going, spirits of wine for the furniture.
1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. ii. 65 If you have genius and powerful ideas, you are apt not to have the best style going.
1901 ‘G. Douglas’ House with Green Shutters 11 They felt it..a..personal defeat that he..should scoop every chance that was going.
1967 E. Lemarchand Death of Old Girl xii. 141 My tongue was hanging out, so I thought I'd..see if there was any sherry going.
2009 Independent 2 Mar. (Life section) 17/1 His father..resorts to every trick going.
17.
a. intransitive. To be agreeable or successful; to meet with applause, acclaim, or support; to succeed. Now esp. in to make (a party, etc.) go: to make (a party, etc.) successful, lively, or exciting; cf. to go with a swing at swing n.2 6f. Chiefly colloquial.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)]
speedc1175
fayc1300
provec1300
flourishc1400
passc1425
prosper1434
succeedc1450
to take placea1464
to come well to (our) pass1481
shift?1533
hitc1540
walka1556
fadge1573
thrive1587
work1599
to come (good) speedc1600
to go off1608
sort1613
go1699
answer1721
to get along1768
to turn up trumps1785
to come off1854
pan1865
scour1871
arrive1889
to work out1899
to ring the bell1900
to go over1907
click1916
happen1949
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew (at cited word) It won't Gee, it won't hit, or go.
1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. xvii. 305 You must not tip us the Traveller; it won't go here. View more context for this quotation
1866 Public Opinion 13 Jan. 51/1 His London street-railway scheme didn't go.
1871 15th Ann. Rep. Maine Board Agric. 1870 23 It is utterly impossible..to get along without having the fast horse at our agricultural exhibitions. Can we make the show go without it? No sir, it will go slow and very feeble.
1890 Sat. Rev. 20 Dec. 709/2 The Adelphi never seems to us to go quite so well as the Andria.
1892 H. Le Caron Twenty-five Years in Secret Service (1893) 132 The paper..caught the public fancy and ‘went’ amazingly.
1900 Smart Set May 67/2 She asked Mrs. Shannon if he were hired in to make the party go.
1957 M. Summerton Sunset Hour iv. 64 Still, it was a good show, wasn't it? You could feel it ‘go’.
2011 S. King 11/22/63 167 Frank knows how to make a party go, all right.
b. colloquial.
(a) intransitive. To be acceptable or allowed (regardless of how unusual or shocking). Originally and chiefly in anything (or everything) goes.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [phrase] > everything permitted
anything (or everything) goes1879
1879 G. Meredith Egoist II. i. 17 Everything goes on the stage, since it's only the laugh we want on the brink of the action.
1891 Harper's Mag. Dec. 104/2 Any other night goes, but not this night.
1921 Ladies' Home Jrnl. June 80/3 One of the few real ‘movie’ fortunes has been made by a man who..has constantly exploited the vicious theory that ‘anything goes in fun’.
1960 Sunday Express 12 June 14/3 In the evening anything goes..from Baby Doll frills to matador pants and a billowing overskirt.
1973 K. Starr Amer. & Calif. Dream xiii. 440 Beneath the sense that all was possible, that anything went, lurked a baffled yearning for limits.
2006 Touch Dec. 23/1 Codes and conventions are out the window. It's a time where anything goes.
(b) intransitive. Originally U.S. To be accepted or carried into effect; to have authority or effectiveness; to be valid or applicable; to carry weight; to be obeyed without question. Originally and chiefly in what I say goes and variants.
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society > authority > [verb (intransitive)] > have effective authority (of words or actions)
go1886
1886 World (N.Y.) 25 Apr. 11 But what I say goes. You hear me!
1891 Cent. Mag. Dec. 190/1 ‘Can you fix it?’.. ‘I guess what I say to Jim goes,’ she said.
1902 Christian Reg. (Boston) 4 Dec. 1432/1 Whatever she said ‘went’.
1908 C. E. Mulford Orphan xi. 188 ‘Since it's your last wish, why, it goes,’ replied the Sheriff.
1910 S. E. White Rules of Game iii. x. 191 This government gang don't go here. This is my property.
1949 G. B. Shaw Buoyant Billions iii. 31 He makes so much money that whatever he says, goes.
2008 E. P. Johnson Sweet Tea i. 36 There's no democracy in my house, what I say goes.
c. intransitive. Mountaineering. Of a route, etc.: to be usable or passable.
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1883 W. S. Green High Alps N.Z. xiv. 232 The route to the northern ridges of the peak..would not ‘go’.
1937 H. W. Tilman Ascent of Nanda Devi vi. 52 I wanted to have a look at the difficult part of the gorge to see if the route would still ‘go’.
1976 Amer. Alpine Jrnl. 20 277 What if the pass wouldn't go?
2004 G. Erickson & L. Lorentzen Raising Bar iv. 163 There is no pass there. That route doesn't go. You will find glaciers, crevasses.
18. intransitive. colloquial.
a. imperative. Used to encourage or cheer on a person, team, etc., esp. in a sporting contest or other endeavour. Cf. go it! ( Phrases 1b(a)(i)), to go on 2a at Phrasal verbs 1.Now also (chiefly in U.S. use) expressing solidarity with or respect or admiration for someone (esp. a woman); frequently in you go girl (also girlfriend, sister, etc.).
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1833 Court Mag. Mar. 109/1 ‘Go—go it!’ shouted I to the imaginary boxers.
1885 Outing Sept. 663/2 The slender boat leaps forward like a dart... The wild, hoarse shouts on the bank increase. ‘Eighty-four ! Eighty-four!.. Go! Go!’
1902 Quiver 109 Yell—Oshkosh up And win the cup. Yell—On to the goal !—go! go!
1940 Time 11 Nov. 57/2 ‘Go, go, go, go’... The Cornell cheering section... chanted their plea for a touchdown.
1991 Toronto Star (Nexis) 6 Oct. c1 Carol Woods..wails the blues on stage. ‘Go, girl,’ [Liza] Minnelli hollers.
1998 A. L. Golden Brandy 174 She'll keep looking for those challenges.., whether in acting, music, or wherever... You go, girlfriend.
2005 C. Cleave Incendiary 66 This is crazy. I'm going to write to my MP... You go girl, said the new nurse.
2005 Daily Tel. 21 June 18/2 I shouted Go, Maurice! at the kitchen radio. Well, he did. On and on and on.
b. U.S. slang. To play jazz or similar (esp. improvised) music excitingly or uninhibitedly; to ‘swing’. Chiefly imperative, as an exhortation to play in this manner.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] > specific style or technique > in jazz
go1926
ride1929
swing1931
tear1932
to play (it) straight1933
groove1935
riff1935
give1936
jumpc1938
to beat it out1945
walk1951
cook1954
move1955
wail1955
stretch1961
1926 Melody Maker Jan. 19 Atta-boy, let's go!
1935 Vanity Fair Nov. 71 Hot artists or bands that can put across their licks successfully..can ‘go’.
1958 Punch 27 Aug. 270/1 In a kind of trance I began to cry rhythmically ‘Go man go!’
2008 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 13 Jan. (Travel section) 11 Click your fingers in appreciation when the cool dude does his bass solo. Go cat, go!
19. intransitive. Of a player: to take his or her turn in a game, contest, etc. Cf. go n.1 2b.Cf. also the earlier interjection go! at go n.1 5, apparently from the noun.
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?1870 F. Hardy & J. R. Ware Mod. Hoyle 96 When a player cannot go, he must draw a domino from a pack.
1913 W. C. Schmeisser Are you going to College 115 If every player [has a try] without waiting for his fellow-player to go first, your team will improve to its limit.
1996 C. Wallace Elbows off Table 137 You roll, you move your guy, and you gather the dice together and slide them to the person who goes next.
1998 V. Crank et al. Key Maths 7 ii. 8 The game continues until all pairs are made up or neither player can go.
II. To move or travel away, and related senses.
20.
a. intransitive. To move away, leave, depart. Also with from, out, out of, †of. Cf. to go away 1 at Phrasal verbs 1, to go out 1a at Phrasal verbs 1, to be gone at sense 50, to come and go at come v. Phrases 1a.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)]
to come awayeOE
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
awayOE
dealc1000
goOE
awendOE
rimeOE
to go one's wayOE
flitc1175
depart?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
to turn awaya1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
recede1450
roomc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
avaunt1549
trudge1562
vade?1570
discoast1571
leave1593
wag1594
to go off1600
troop1600
hence1614
to set on one's foota1616
to pull up one's stumps1647
quit1811
to clear out1816
slope1830
to walk one's chalks1835
shove1844
to roll out1850
to pull out1855
to light out1859
to take a run-out powder1909
to push off (also along)1923
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) ii. 16 Hi urnon to me an æfter anum ðær ic inne sæt ða gearo to ganne.
OE West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) xiv. 31 Arisað, uton gan heonon [L. eamus hinc].
lOE St. Giles (Corpus Cambr. 303) (1980) 109 He..þærrihtes eode ut of þam scræfe and gehyrde þa hundes and þa huntan.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4666 Hu ferr þu gast. Vt off þe rihhte weȝȝe.
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 331 (MED) Rohand toke leue to ga, His sones he cleped oway.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 251 Þey [sc. the proletarii] were i-constreyned for to goo out [L. exire] of skarsnesse of knyȝtes.
c1390 (?c1350) Joseph of Arimathie (1871) l. 21 Þen com a vois to Ioseph and seide him þise wordes, Biddes him and his wyf..Gon out of Ierusalem.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15034 Þe childer þat war waike To ga þat pres a-mang.
a1425 (c1300) Assumption of Virgin (BL Add.) (1901) l. 730 Off fyue þousand was þer none That myȝt of þat stede gone.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin x. 142 Lete vs gon.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 3 Now tell me or ȝe ga.
1614 Life & Death Hector ii. iii. 81/1 Without more delay or speaking word, Went out the hall as fast as ere she might.
1651 C. Walker Compleat Hist. Independencie IV. iv. 80 The Sunday before he went, he preached at Margarets Westminster.
1698 M. Pix Deceiver Deceived i. 8 You must go now, this very Instant, now.
1761 Mod. Part Universal Hist. XXVI. 195 He was preparing to go from Venice on a trading voyage.
1778 London Mag. Mar. 111/1 Surely Mr. Hammell would not go without me.
1842 R. H. Barham Lay St. Cuthbert in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 229 Come, mizzle!—be off with you!—go!
1881 Good Words 22 710/1 Surely she did not let you go without some kind word.
1910 M. H. Foote Royal Americans xi. 77 Her little bed-fellow..slipped out on her side of the bed and went from sight.
1982 A. Hoffman Square Dancing in Ice Age 179 Just before she went, she said,..‘You don't think I'm a monster, do you?’
2005 C. Cleave Incendiary 176 Petra doesn't give a shit about me... She doesn't care. I wish she'd just go.
b. transitive. To set off on (one's way or course of travel). Chiefly in to go one's way. Now somewhat archaic.
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c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 9023 Iesu crist..let hemm all hemm ane Gan þeȝȝre weȝȝe.
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 14 He..ȝode his way.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 25 The vytayller..was goon his way.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judith viii. 34 Go thy waye in peace.
1587 in W. M. Williams Ann. Founders' Co. (1867) 69 Mr. Alderman tooke his worde, and rose, and went his ways.
1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 27 I willingly depart, I go my wayes.
1699 A. Roberts Voy. Levant 15 At length we saw the half Galleys go their way.
1753 London Mag. Jan. 22 The promise was made, and the unhappy fair one went her way.
1785 tr. J. C. Wolf Life & Adventures 50 I made my obeisance with my humble thanks, and went my way.
1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. ii. 87 Now go thy way, Abdaldar!
1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities iii. xii. 230 He went his way, and was soon swallowed up in the shadow of the prison wall.
1870 E. Eiloart From Thistles—Grapes? III. iii. 45 He was bringing the book he had promised simply that he might have an excuse for a few last words..before he went his road alone.
1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman iii. 116 I told him I did not care whether he got into parliament or not; so he called me Mugwump and went his way.
1990 I. M. Lask tr. M. J. bin Gorion Mimekor Yisrael viii. 14 He drank and went his way, not knowing that his pouch..had dropped from his hands.
†c. intransitive. imperative. Expressing impatience, dismissiveness, derision, etc. Frequently reduplicated. Cf. to go away 1c at Phrasal verbs 1. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebukes [phrase]
go1577
naughty1847
1577 R. Smythe tr. M. Bandello Straunge, Lamentable, & Tragicall Hystories sig. D.j Go, go, sayth the Duke, thou hadst more neede to appease the Porter of Hell with thy Orations.
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. v. 85 You are a princox, go . View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. i. 66 Go, go, you are a counterfeit cowardly Knaue. View more context for this quotation
1673 W. Wycherley Gentleman Dancing-master ii. 33 Go, go, you dote, are they not (for the most part) better dress'd and prouder than many a good Gentleman?
1730 C. Coffey Female Parson ii. ii. 23 Go, go, you witty little Wagtail, you trifle with my Passion.
1798 J. Baillie Tryal i. i, in Series Plays Stronger Passions I. 197 Go, go, thou art a fool, Agnes! who will fall in love with a little ordinary girl like thee?
21. intransitive. With adjective complement. Originally: to leave or depart in a specified state or condition. In later use also with the notion of departure weakened or absent: to be left in a specified state or condition (esp. one expressed negatively). Compare sense 5a.See also to go free at free adj. 6a, to go quit at quit adj. 1a.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > sail with wind abaft the beam
goOE
large1582
to go (sail, etc.) large1615
lask1622
(to go) fluking1840
the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > be permanent [verb (intransitive)] > remain, continue > in specified state
ofstandeOE
atstandc1000
goOE
standOE
containc1380
perseverec1380
contunec1400
to hold inc1400
setc1400
remain?a1450
continue1503
stay1570
keepc1600
subsista1616
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxvii. 243 He ðe wolde fram deoflum gebundenne to him alædan, alys ðu hine nu fram deoflum gehæftne, and læt hine gan frigne [L. liberum ire permitte].
c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Royal) (1934) 43 Hit were þi gein, þu þat gest [c1225 Bodl. geast] unblescet.
?a1300 Thrush & Nightingale (Digby) l. 83 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 103 Hit is shome to blame leuedi, For hem þou shalt gon sori.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 6713 (MED) Þe bestis lauerd sal ga [Trin. Cambr. go] quite Of alkines chalange and wite.
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope iii. f. cxxivv The trouthe was knowen, wherfore the poure man went quyte.
1572 J. Bridges tr. R. Gwalther Hundred, Threescore & Fiftene Homelyes vppon Actes Apostles xxxviii. 264 God..will not suffer their boldnesse to go vnreuenged.
1586 E. Hoby tr. M. Coignet Polit. Disc. Trueth xlii. 187 Their cosinages and lyings went vnpunished.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 241 Wit shall not goe vn-rewarded while I am King of this Country. View more context for this quotation
a1676 J. Dunton Remains (1684) 170 Suffer..no sin to go unconfessed, which thou wouldst not have to go unpardoned.
1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere III. vi. 224 The injury did not go unrevenged.
1787 J. Andrews Def. Stadtholdership 53 His purse was ever open to its necessities; and no man ever went unsatisfied from his presence.
1833 New-Eng. Mag. Apr. 286 He and two or three of his neighbours had to pay all the taxes out of their own pockets, while the rest went scot free.
1888 G. Gissing Life's Morning I. ii. 72 Her worldly tastes did not go altogether ungratified.
1922 India Rubber Rev. Dec. 74/3 We have tried to make each customer feel that we were his personal friend and allow no one to go dissatisfied.
1988 Changing Times Dec. 107 As much as $4 billion..goes unpaid each year.
2007 N. J. Smelser Faces of Terrorism iv. 114 The media themselves do not wish to go unread, unheard, or unwatched.
22.
a. intransitive. To pass away, disappear, cease to exist or be present; to come to an end; to be eliminated. Also with from, out of. In later use also: to be taken away, lost, or consumed; to be abolished.Recorded earliest in the perfect formed with to be. Cf. gone adj. 1a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > be non-existent [verb (intransitive)] > end or cease to exist
tirec725
endOE
forfareOE
goc1175
fleec1200
to wend awayc1225
diea1240
to-melta1240
to pass awaya1325
flit1340
perishc1350
vanisha1375
decorre1377
cease1382
dispend1393
failc1400
overshakec1425
surcease1439
adrawc1450
fall1523
decease1538
define1562
fleet1576
expire1595
evanish1597
extinguish1599
extirp1606
disappear1623
evaporatea1631
trans-shift1648
annihilate1656
exolve1657
cancela1667
to pass off1699
to burn out, forth1832
spark1845
to die out1853
to come, go, etc. by the board1859
sputter1964
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 14226 Þurrh þatt teȝȝre win wass gan.
a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 53 Al goþ bote Godes wille.
c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 502 Til his Parchemyn was al gon.
c1400 J. Gower Eng. Wks. (1901) II. 484 The day is goon, the nyght is derk and fade.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Melibeus (Hengwrt) (2003) §609 The richesse þt hastily cometh to a man soone & lightly gooth and passeth from a man.
c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) l. 1278 (MED) It were grete shame..To sle a man wepenles; That shame wolde never goon.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 285 His wittes went from him in suche sorte, that he dyed within three dayes after.
1604 J. Godskall Arke of Noah sig. Iv Being shauen, his strength went from him, he waxed weake.
a1626 L. Andrewes Αποσπασματια Sacra: Coll. Posthumous Lect. (1657) 90 When Christ blesseth, a power went from him, he felt it goe from him in Matthews Gospel.
1721 E. Young Revenge iv. i. 44 What did I part with, when I gave my Heart? I knew not that all Happiness went with it.
1851 G. E. Jewsbury Marian Withers I. vi. 99 Firms that had been considered beyond suspicion were every day declared insolvent;—no one knew..who would be the next to go.
1862 Baily's Monthly Mag. Aug. 90 Hornby..was the first to go.
1888 J. McCarthy & R. C. Praed Ladies' Gallery II. v. 86 It has quite gone out of my head.
1892 Chambers's Jrnl. 3 Sept. 563/2 The estates went out of the family.
1892 Sat. Rev. 5 Nov. 527/2 The Bishop's veto, of course, is to go... The Ecclesiastical Courts are to go too.
1922 J. Van Wagenen Cow p. viii The corresponding [golden] age of dairying is about to go forever.
1935 G. Greene Eng. made Me ii. 71 His anger went as quickly as it came.
2012 A. Brummer Brit. for Sale (2013) v. 124 Some 600 jobs went at Llanwern, as part of a total of 1,100 cuts.
b. intransitive. Cricket. Of a wicket: to be taken; (of a batter) to be dismissed for a particular score. Cf. to go down 2(b) at Phrasal verbs 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > be out
to run out1756
fall1829
go1831
walk1960
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > dismissal of batsman > put out [verb (intransitive)] > fall (of wicket)
fall1773
go1831
1831 Sporting Mag. July 250/2 There were now four wickets gone for 48 runs, which is rather above the average.
1890 Field 10 May 672/3 The next three wickets went before anything had been added to the score.
1904 P. F. Warner How we recovered Ashes vii. 105 Three of the greatest batsmen in the world gone for nine runs on a perfect wicket!
1972 Times 15 July 6 (caption) Parfitt goes for a duck.
2012 Somerset Guardian (Nexis) 31 May 68 The last wicket went in the final over.
c. intransitive. Esp. of an item of clothing: to be removed or taken off. Cf. to go off 1a at Phrasal verbs 1.
ΚΠ
1835 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 1/3 The cover went off the steak.
1863 Child's Compan. Mar. 67 Mr. Harris's cap went next, and then his pea-jacket.
1919 Munsey’s Mag. Feb. 195/2 In the increasing heat he had thrown off his coat, and now his shirt went too.
1986 G. Curry Tangled Sheets 64 The shoes went first, then the shirt, and finally the pants.
2009 P. MacCarthy Carter Conspiracy (2010) 210 Next to go was his shirt.
23.
a. intransitive. Of money or an amount of money: to be parted with; to be paid out, expended, or spent. Cf. sense 42a and to go out 9 at Phrasal verbs 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > spend or incur expense [verb (intransitive)] > be spent
goc1330
to go out1622
issuea1645
c1330 in T. Wright Polit. Songs Eng. (1839) 337 If the king hit wiste, I trowe he wolde be wroth, Hou the pore beth i-piled and hu the silver goth.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. xix. sig. M.vi If he wer but a waifaring man yt I receued into mi house as a geast, if he fal sicke therin, & his money gone, I reckon my self bounden to kepe him still.
1645 S. Marshall Strong Helper 32 When the Church needed it, their penny went as willingly as their Pater noster.
1658 J. Mennes & J. Smith Wit Restor'd 24 There you have poynts and pinns and rings,..There patches Gloves and Ribons gay, And O our money goes.
1751 E. Haywood Hist. Betsy Thoughtless I. xvi. 203 My poor master little thinks how his money goes.
1843 C. Darwin Let. 4 Sept. in Corr. (1986) II. 387 Ave Maria how the money does go—there are twice as many temptations to extravagance in the country compared with London.
1867 London Society July 14/2 Your cash is going fast.
1980 Cincinnati Mag. Mar. 89/2 Money goes quickly when you're traveling with four people.
1989 G. Pappas Magic City (1992) ii. 17 Their savings had gone much more quickly than they had anticipated.
2013 M. Lee Men who robbed Great Train Robbers 407 All his money had gone.
†b. intransitive. Law. Of an annuity, etc.: to be paid out of the revenues of something. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > payment > pay money or things [verb (transitive)] > be paid out of the revenues of
go1439
1439 in Collectanea Topographica & Genealogica (1840) VI. 15 (MED) Alle manere of charges and annuetez goyng out of the seid Manoirs..shall be paied.
1486–7 J. Bonewell in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 610 [It] was the will of here husbonde that the annuyte schulde go oute of the seide maner of Swaynesthorp.
1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII c. 11 The seid annuell rentes appoynted to be goyng out of the seid Maners.
a1563 V. Leigh Moste Profitable Sci. Surueying (1577) sig. G.j There are commonlie goyng yerely out of moste Mannours sondrie Deductions, Paimentes, and dueties.
1640 W. Somner Antiq. Canterbury 138 The rents Resolute yearely going out of the same Hospitall.
1660 W. Phillipps Princ. of Law reduced to Pract. 121 A rent-charge going out of the wive's lands.
1719 J. Lilly Pract. Conveyancer II. 711 One Annuity or yearly Rent-charge of eight hundred Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain to be yearly issuing and going out of the Manor.
1814 in Copies of Memorials or Statements Charitable Donations (1815) 250 in Parl. Papers 1814–15 (H.C. 440) XII. 5 One annuity of four marks..to be yearly issuing and going out of his lands and tenements in Long-lane in Bermondsey.
24.
a. intransitive. In various phrases referring to a person's death, with the implicit notion of departing this world for an afterlife.Recorded earliest in perfect tense formed with to be. Cf. gone adj. 1b.Sometimes Biblical or religious in origin, as to go the way of all the earth (or all flesh, all the living) (see way n.1 and int.1 Phrases 4a), to go to one's account (see account n. 7), etc.to go out of the (also this) world: see world n. Phrases 5d. to go to a better place: see better adj., n.1, and adv. Phrases 8.
ΚΠ
a1350 in K. Böddeker Altengl. Dichtungen (1878) 258 (MED) Þo my wyf wes to god ygon.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 2169 He moot be deed, the kyng as shal a page..Ther helpeth noght al gooth that ilke weye.
a1450 (?c1430) J. Lydgate Daunce Machabree (Huntington) (1931) l. 589 (MED) Dethe is so hasti on me to be wreke..I cam but now and now I go my wai.
1498 Doctrynalle of Dethe (de Worde) sig. av I counsell you that ye neyther desyre to go out of this worlde ne abyde in it but that ye offre you holy to yt wyll of our lorde.
1576 J. Daniel tr. J. Pérez Excelent Comfort xxx. f. 143v Wherefore shall wee refuse to goe from this lyfe so abhominable, to goe to that goodly mount Syon: to goe to that beautifull Citie of God, the newe and celestiall Ierusalum.
1595 A. Fletcher Certaine Similies 105 When they..go out of this life, they shall be hurled vpon that most foule and filthie dung hill of hell.
1610 R. Tofte tr. N. de Montreux Honours Acad. iv. 134 His Mistris deare, Who to a better world was gone.
1611 Bible (King James) Eccl. iii. 20 All goe vnto one place, all are of the dust, and all turne to dust againe. View more context for this quotation
1743 J. Seed Disc. Several Important Subj. II. iv. 121 It appears..that the Bad go from this World..into a Scene of mere Misery, Horror, and Torment.
1792 European Mag. Oct. 262/2 It is now nineteen years since my black-ear'd beagle, Fleet, went the way of all dogs.
1859 J. Cunningham Church Hist. Sc. II. v. 181 He went from this world in the firm hope of a better.
1870 Old & New May 599/1 In the prime of his life he went to his Maker, dying, as he had lived, a pure spirit.
1913 Everybody's Mag. June 742/1 Bang Bang went the ottomatick and two more went to meet their Maker.
1992 S. Tharoor Show Business (1995) ii. 94 His eyes stare. He has gone to the great recording studio in the sky.
b. intransitive. Simply: to depart from life, die. Cf. to go away 2a at Phrasal verbs 1, to go off 6a at Phrasal verbs 1, to go under 2 at Phrasal verbs 1.Recorded earliest in the perfect formed with to be. Cf. gone adj. 1b.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 87 Wherof the world ensample fette Mai after this, whan I am go.
c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 9 Do for ȝoureself ore ȝe gone.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxxvi. 12 They shall go thorow the swearde, & perish or euer they be awarre.
a1610 J. Healey tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) 46 Thy neighbours wife..dyeth. Every one can say, Why! wee are all mortall;..but when his owne goes, then [etc.].
1687 Elegy Madam Ellenor Gwinn (single sheet) We all must go.
1721 R. Franks Of Dying this Year i. 18 Many of my Friends,..that I did not think to have seen go first; many such died.
1830 F. A. Kemble Let. 17 Jan. in Rec. Girlhood (1878) II. iii. 89 Have I lived to see him go before me!
1866 G. Spencer Life Father Ignatius of St. Paul vi. 39 It was but a short time past that I was corresponding with him about the death of Mrs. Blomfield; and little he or I thought that he would be the next to go.
1946 S. Hoffenstein Treasury Humorous Verse 163 The next to go was Harvard Ed, Whose only love was dope.
1980 W. Morris Plains Song 197 She went in her sleep. I hope I'm as lucky.
2010 Star (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 27 Oct. 1 He went peacefully,..as if he knew his time had come.
25.
a. intransitive. Of a commodity: to be sold or offered for sale (at or for a specified price). Cf. going, going, gone! at Phrases 3c.See also to go cheap at cheap adj. 1i.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > selling > a public sale > hold a sale [verb (intransitive)] > be sold by auction
go?a1425
to pass under the spear1600
go (also come) to (or under) the hammer1842
?a1425 in D. Knoop & G. P. Jones Mediæval Mason (1933) 261 (MED) Pay thy felows after the coste As vytaylys goth thenne.
?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors vi. sig. B7v Whan rentys went at a moch lower pryce.
1549 H. Latimer 1st Serm. before Kynges Grace sig. Diiv For yt herebefore went for .xx. or .xl. pound by yere..now is it let for .l. or a .C. pound by yeare.
1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 21 Twenty years purchase, which they will go at, and much more.
1764 H. Walpole Let. 10 May (1904) VI. 62 There was a whole-length of Sir Henry Sidney, which I should have liked, but it went for fifteen guineas.
1803 Pic Nic No. 13. 7 When any article under sale was going for less than its appointed value.
1892 London Philatelist Oct. 288/2 The South Australia, 9d., printed on both sides,..went dearly for £3. 3s.
1920 National Petroleum News 13 Oct. 105/2 The bulk of the fuel oil moving during the past week went at around 11 cents.
1995 Scotsman 21 Oct. (Weekend section) 27/2 Cashmere, camelhair, merino, wools, cotton are all going for a fraction of the normal price.
2010 T. Cohen Truth about Delilah Blue 360 These properties go for millions.
b. intransitive. With at, for. Of a monetary unit: to be valued or exchanged at a certain amount or rate. Cf. sense 8a.
ΚΠ
1465 Proclam. Edward IV in Archaeologia (1796) 12 405 (MED) Every noble of gold which nowe goith for vi s. viiij d. shall from thensforth be and renne..to and for the value of viij s. iiij d. sterlings.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1537/2 In September proclamation was made through all Englande, that the angell shoulde go for .vij. ss .iiij. d.
1692 J. Locke Some Considerations Lowering Interest 137 A Crown with us goes for 60 Pence.
1695 G. Harris in R. Blackmore Hist. Conspiracy (1723) 122 Guineas then going at thirty Shillings a-piece.
1719 Delphick Oracle 30 Oct. 32 The next Coyns..are the Rials or Royals, which in the first of Henry VI. went for 10s.
1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 159 A small copper-piece whose real worth was scarce a pfening, went for a dollar silver-money, which is equal to half a German rix-dollar.
1845 Hand-bk. for Travellers on Continent (rev. ed.) v. 327/1 The Pruss. dollar goes for 40 sch.
1856 Sporting Mag. Sept. 196 A sixpence sterling goes for ten pence of our money.
1921 A. B. Hart New Amer. Hist. vii. 122 Six Massachusetts paper shillings went for a dollar.
1975 G. Pearlman Adventures Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother x. 58 ‘What's the franc going for today?’ Finney looked it up. ‘The franc is—eleven point eighteen!’
2013 Telegraph (India) (Nexis) 2 Sept. The rupee had started sliding and the dollar was going at around Rs 64.
c. intransitive. Of a price, payment, etc.: to be calculated or set at a certain amount. Also with at. rare in later use.
ΚΠ
1552 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 14 §8 As the Price of Corn then goeth in the said Market or Fair.
1683 J. Poyntz Present Prospect Tobago 40 Your produce of Cocoa and Tobacco, clears you at least one thousand six hundred pounds Sterlin, as now the price goes.
1698 Proclam. William II 14 July (single sheet) The Victual..[may] be presented to Mercats, and sold as the price goes.
1892 Joint Documents State Mich. 1891 III. v. 370 The men..claimed that work was plenty and wages went at $3.75 to $4 per day.
1896 F. E. Saward Coal Trade (ed. 23) 76 There was a great deal of coal sold at $4.00 per ton at certain times, while in Brooklyn..the price went at a less figure.
1965 Díosbóireachtaí Párlaiminte 218 1089 Wages went at a certain level,..prices went at a certain level and..profits went at a certain level.
26. intransitive. In the infinitive, after a verb of obligation or necessity (have to, must, or should). To be given up, relinquished, or sacrificed. Also: †to be forfeited (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > relinquishing > make relinquishment [verb (intransitive)] > be relinquished or given up
go1592
uncling1645
1592 A. Willet Fruitfull & Godly Serm. sig. C6v His life should go for his.
1620 T. Middleton Courtly Masque sig. E3v It is a frailty and infirmity That many teares must go for.
1647 New Ballad: Rev. of Rebellion (single sheet) The State (if't stand in need) Will force us for to bleed, So long as any one drope is left, All must goe for the Caus.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 375 If any person suffered in England on the account of the letters betray'd by him, his head should go for it.
1754 T. Randolph App. Vindic. Doctr. Trinity 57 If..we part with our Athanasian Creed, I suppose the Nicene Creed must go next.
1832 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. 29 Feb. in Rec. Girlhood (1879) 511 If our salaries are smaller, so must our expenses be. The house must go, the carriage must go, the horses must go.
1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 659/2 I have parted with..everything except my marriage-ring, and it must go next.
1890 Jrnl. Educ. June 297/2 Greek, not being a primary subject, must go, except for the classical specialist.
1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 16 Sept. 17/3 If the aeroplane is to chase the enemy or do any forward firing, the bow-propeller type of machine will have to go.
1998 M. Guillory in M. Guillory & R. C. Green Soul 286 My cats could stay, but my books had to go.
27. To succumb to pressure, strain, or any harmful or damaging influence.
†a. intransitive. Of a crop or foodstuff: to perish; to be attacked by disease or decay. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > disease or injury > be diseased, injured, or discoloured [verb (intransitive)]
burn?1523
blast1580
slaya1642
smut1657
fire1693
mowburn1707
go1735
strike1742
curl1793
gum1794
sunburn1833
French1836
rust1839
shank1848
houseburn1850
1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Going..a term apply'd to Liquor, Meat, &c. when it is perishing or spoiling.
1855 Ld. Houghton Let. 2 Aug. in T. W. Reid Life Ld. Houghton (1890) I. xi. 516 The crop good, but the potatoes..going everywhere.
b. intransitive. Of a person or animal, or (now esp.) a person's mental faculties: to fail, decline, give way, break down.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > be in ill health [verb (intransitive)] > be weak > become weak
of-fall?a1200
fail?c1225
wastea1300
languisha1325
defail1340
languora1375
defaulta1382
wastea1387
faintc1450
mortifyc1475
hink?a1500
traik?a1513
droopc1540
unquick1595
macerate1598
dodder1617
lachanize1623
smartle1673
break1726
go1748
sink1780
wilt1787
falter1799
weaken1886
to go down1892
to go out of curl1924
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. li. 195 Poor fellow, he is going very fast. Change of air, he hopes, will mend him... But nothing, I dare say, will.
1777 H. Mackenzie Julia de Roubigné I. 117 The doctor..said to me, ‘That excellent lady is going fast.’
1860 National Rev. Apr. 387 He knew his faculties were going.
1892 Sat. Rev. 9 Jan. 41/1 Omnibus-horses generally go first in the loins.
1928 Daily Mirror 15 Oct. 21/2 I was afraid the old boy's mind was going.
1967 M. Drabble Jerusalem the Golden (1969) ii. 27 She still thought that her brain might go or that her nerve might snap.
2010 M. Vandermerwe This Place I call Home 11 What will they think,..that he didn't remember his appointments, that his mind is going?
c. intransitive. Of a person: to faint; to lose consciousness; to fall asleep. Also: to fall under the influence of a drug. Frequently in to feel oneself go. Cf. to go off at Phrasal verbs 1, to go out 11b at Phrasal verbs 1.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > lose consciousness [verb (intransitive)] > faint or swoon
swotherc1000
swowa1250
swoonc1290
sweltc1330
trance1340
to fall on, in swowa1375
swapc1386
sound1393
dwelea1400
swaya1400
faintc1440
owmawt1440
swalmc1440
sweamc1440
syncopize1490
dwalm?a1513
swarf1513
swound1530
cothe1567
sweb1599
to go away1655
to die away1707
go1768
sink1769
sile1790
to pass out1915
to black out1935
1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man v. 65 Help, she's going, give her air.
1889 N. Y. Med. Jrnl. 49 542/1 She told Dr. G. that when she felt herself ‘going’ she was frightened almost to death.
1965 W. Smith Dark of Sun 236 Consciousness receded and he felt himself going, going.
1970 R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 145/1 I began to realize I was going. I had done about two pipefuls.
1976 P. Haines Kind of War ii. iv. 167 The early morning traffic started up and still she was awake. Then gradually she felt herself go.
2010 R. Ward Chaos (2011) 108 A good pinch..wakes me up for a minute or so, but then I feel myself going and I can't do a thing about it.
d. intransitive. Of an object, mechanism, or working part: to break; (sometimes spec.) to break with noise, crack; (of part of the body) to become injured or dislocated. Also of material or clothing: to become worn or split. Cf. to go out 14a at Phrasal verbs 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sharp or hard sound > [verb (intransitive)] > crack or snap > break with
knapple1755
go1798
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)] > shatter or break to pieces or burst > with noise
clattera1225
crash1535
snap1602
go1798
unsnap1867
1798 Ld. Nelson Let. 24 May in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) III. 20 About half-past three the foremast went in three places.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxiii. 415 We looked every moment to see something go.
1867 Judy 1 May 5/2 It [sc. a window] wasn't cracked..that morning, and she thought she heard it go when she was over the way.
1883 G. M. Fenn Middy & Ensign xiii. 74 Your major split some stitches somewhere, for I heard them go.
1890 Daily News 17 Nov. 7/2 His [sc. a pugilist's] legs had gone, and he had been over-trained.
1910 E. M. Forster Howards End v. 41 ‘What about this umbrella?’ She opened it. ‘No, it's all gone along the seams.’
1991 S. Woods N.Y. Dead (1992) ii. 6 The knee was hurting badly now... Stone wouldn't be able to run him down before the knee went.
2006 D. Peterson Jane Goodall x. 126 The brakes went, and the truck accelerated around a half-dozen hairpin turns before sailing off a cliff.
28.
a. intransitive. To begin an implied action, set about an implied activity. Frequently in there he (or she) goes at there adv. 15.See also to be good to go at good adj., n., adv., and int. Phrases 5e.here goes!, here we go again: see here adv. 13.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)]
beginc1000
onginOE
aginOE
ginc1175
to go tillc1175
to take onc1175
comsea1225
fanga1225
to go toc1275
i-ginc1275
commencec1320
to get (also get down, go, go adown, set, set down) to workc1400
to lay to one's hand(sc1405
to put to one's hand (also hands)c1410
to set toc1425
standa1450
to make to1563
to fall to it1570
to start out1574
to fall to1577
to run upon ——1581
to break off1591
start1607
to set in1608
to set to one's hands1611
to put toa1616
to fall ona1625
in1633
to fall aboard1642
auspicatea1670
to set out1693
to enter (into) the fray1698
open1708
to start in1737
inchoate1767
to set off1774
go1780
start1785
to on with1843
to kick off1857
to start in on1859
to steam up1860
to push off1909
to cut loose1923
to get (also put) the show on the road1941
to get one's arse in gear1948
1780 Mirror No. 97. ⁋32 ‘There she goes, the travelled lady,’ cried the Captain; ‘she must always have a fling at her catechism.’
1786 M. A. Meilan tr. A. Berquin Children's Friend IX. 69 (He takes a step or two, when all the books fall down.) Viola..There, there they go! Those handsome books.
1820 Examiner No. 641. 473/2 The Revolution in Spain has been succeeded by a Revolution in Naples. We thought that Prussia would go next.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 13 Hear the company—fiddles tuning—now the harp—there they go.
1859 J. W. De Forest Seacliff xv. 212 Oh! that noise. I'm sure I heard something up stairs. There! there it goes again!
1966 C. Bermant Diary of Old Man 111 There he goes again, coughing himself to a frazzle.
1988 B. Fife Dr. Dropos' Juggling Buffoonery 65 For my next trick I will combine acrobatics and juggling... OK, here I go.
2001 Maximum PC Apr. 65/3 Now, install your soundcard..and you're all set to go.
b. intransitive. imperative. Used by the person starting a race, contest, etc., as an instruction to begin. Cf. from the word go at Phrases 3d, ready, steady, go! at ready int. 3.
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1820 Louisville (Kentucky) Public Advertiser 26 Aug. The lash and the spur were applied to him from the word, go!
1852 Bentley's Misc. 31 120 The starter..drops his flag with the word ‘Go!’
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Go! A word sometimes given when all is ready for a launch of a vessel from the stocks.
1907 Mich. Pioneer & Hist. Soc. 35 575 Someone would shout ‘On your mark—Get set—Go!’ and the sprinting match would be on.
1923 F. A. Talbot Moving Pictures xiv. 218 Ready! Action! Camera!!! Go!!!!
1954 G. Mitchell On your Marks xv. 172 ‘On your marks,’ said the starter. The swimmers were poised and ready. ‘Go!’
2011 J. Spivak Buzz v. 79 Music, now, get ready...GO!
III. To move or travel towards a place, person, or thing, or in a particular direction, and related senses.
* With reference to self-originated movement or action.
29.
a. intransitive. With to, unto, etc. To move, travel, or proceed to or towards a specified place, person, or thing. Also with adverb complement: to move, travel, or proceed in a particular direction or into a particular position. Also: to pass into a room, building, etc.Cf. be v. 8c.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > move in a certain direction [verb (intransitive)]
goeOE
wendOE
makeOE
aim?a1400
to make one's waya1425
reflect1547
work1566
to make up1596
path1597
sway1600
tend1648
vergea1661
steer1693
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > move towards or approach (a thing, place, or person) [verb (transitive)] > be moved or impelled towards
goeOE
the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > proceed or carry on an action [verb (intransitive)] > be carried on or proceed > in specific way
goeOE
farec1230
speeda1250
to get on1813
eOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 885 Þa eode se here to hiera scipum.
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) i. 188 He eode to ðam Iudeiscan folce & smeade wið hi hu he crist him belæwen mihte.
OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxiv. 38 Oð þone dæg þe Noe on þa earce eode.
c1175 ( Homily: Hist. Holy Rood-tree (Bodl. 343) (1894) 6 Aris on ærnemoreȝen..& ga to moyse þer he hine restæð.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 3 (MED) God in þane castel þet is onȝein eou, and ȝe finded redliche þar ane asse ȝe-bunden.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 104 Þeos eoden into ancre hus ase saul dude to hole.
c1330 Short Metrical Chron. (Auch.) l. 47 in PMLA (1931) 46 118/1 A messanger sche cleped anon & bad him swiþe he schuld gon To hir sostren al bi dene, þat wer wimen briȝt & schene.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4537 ‘Ga to þe prisun,’ said þe king.
?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 120 She went vnto the kinge, and..made pees betwene the kinge and her husbonde.
1521 tr. C. de Pisan Body of Polycye i. xv. sig. d.ivv He..sodeynly wente to her and kyssed her.
1599 E. Ford Parismenos xxix. sig. Cc3v And the Judges gone to the dungeon to bring forth the prisoner.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. i. 365 Must I goe to him? View more context for this quotation
1659 E. Bodvile Let. 9 Mar. in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 17 My Lord Chisterfild hoe is agoeing into Francs himselfe.
1665 S. Pepys Diary 17 Apr. (1972) VI. 82 That he doth appoint a fleet to go to the Northward.
1762 S. Scott Descr. Millenium Hall 90 Lamont and I went into the garden.
1777 C. Reeve Champion of Virtue 183 I am resolved..to go to the King.
1802 Proc. Old Bailey 18 Sept. 645 I saw Alexander go into the cellar, and bring out something in a cloth.
1815 F. R. Hastings Jrnl. 11 Feb. in Private Jrnl. (1858) I. 337 As we approached the camp his oont-surwars (camel-riders) went ahead of us.
1881 J. R. H. Hawthorn Pioneer of Family xiv. 96 If you will please to go downstairs, and look on a shelf in my parlour, you will find a bible.
1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 64 I would have been capable of going into the street and knocking down any little butcher's boy.
1985 N.Y. Mag. 23 Sept. 33/1 She went from New York to Warsaw.
2001 C. Madhavan Paddy Indian vi. 41 Annie was meant to go to London actually, to stay with Prabha.
b. intransitive. With to, towards, etc. Of a road, passage, door, etc.: to lead to some destination. Also with adverb complement: to lead in a particular direction. Cf. sense 3b.In quot. lOE of a river.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > go or lead (of a road or path) [verb (intransitive)]
golOE
leadc1175
winda1555
strike1585
bound1590
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough interpolation) anno 656 Fra Raggewilh v mile to þe rihte æ [sc. the River Nene] þe gað to Ælm & to Wisebece.
a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 127 Ðu forliest ða ane rihte weiȝ þe gað to heuene.
c1261 ( Bounds (Sawyer 1165) in S. E. Kelly Charters of Chertsey Abbey (2015) 108 Fram winebrigth westrigte to one weie þet geþ to Winchestre, þat is ihoten Shrubbeshelde.
c1300 Holy Cross (Laud) 180 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 6 A grene wei þov schalt wiende, Þat..to parays gez.
a1425 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Linc. Inn) (1952) 4975 He..dude parforce stoppe þe pas Þat goþ fro Taracounte to Capias.
1480 W. Worcester in J. Nasmith Itineraria (1778) 177 A laane goyng yn the south syde of Seynt Stevyn chyrch.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxvi. 228 This other way goeth to Rome.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. v. sig. Ll4v Follow him through the doore, that goes into the garden.
1647 J. Lilburne Oppressed Mans Oppress. 8 I turned on the left hand..and walked in the path that goes to his Chamber.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 322 Their Men..secur'd..the Scuttle which went down into the Cook Room.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. vii. x. 72 Which Way goes to Bristol. View more context for this quotation
1845 S. Smith Jack Downing's Lett. (new ed.) 59 The basement door—that means a door that goes into a room about half-way between a cellar and a room above ground.
1898 W. Miller Trav. & Politics Near East iv. 140 To-day the old walls look down upon..the fine, broad road which goes towards Montenegro.
1908 W. G. Phalen Econ. Geol. Kenova Quadrangle 95 Two coals show just at the foot of the hill to the left of the road going east.
1920 Amer. Lumberman 27 Nov. 56/1 The stairs going to the basement lead from the kitchen.
1941 Life 28 Apr. 95 (caption) Exit from Egypt..would probably be this railway that goes south to Khartoum.
2000 S. R. Dar in V. Elisseeff Silk Roads ix. 175 The fourth road goes to Peshawar via Khawaspura.
c. intransitive. With to. In various imprecatory phrases (esp. in the imperative or optative) used to express hostility, contempt, or defiant indifference, and desire to be rid of the person addressed. Now chiefly in to go to hell at hell n. and int. Phrases 3b.to go to Bath, to go to Jericho, to go to Halifax, to go to Hong Kong, to go to the devil, to go to the dickens, etc.: see the final elements.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > be sent away or dismissed
to go to Hong Kong1849
go1858
to go hang1881
to take a walk1888
to get the gate1918
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) iii. 102 Lete theym go to [Fr. aler a] a hundred thousand devils!
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ii. 14 Go to the dwill, and say I bad!
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 21 Let Fortune goe to hell for it, not I. View more context for this quotation
1648 Mercurius Aulicus 2–30 Mar. sig. G3 Let them all goe, to Jericho, And ne're be seen againe.
1669 in J. Raine Depos. Castle of York (1861) 165 Sirrah! goe to Hallifax.
1758 A. Murphy Upholsterer ii. 33 He may go to Jericho for what I cares.
1840 R. H. Barham Grey Dolphin in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 83 ‘Go to Bath!’ said the Baron.
1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks II. xi. 240 She may go to Hong Kong for me.
1858 W. M. Thackeray Virginians I. xvi. 127 ‘She may go to Tunbridge, or she may go to Bath, or she may go to Jericho for me’.
1863 H. Kingsley Austin Elliot xv. 116 Now, in the year 1845, telling a man to go to Putney was the same as telling a man to go to the deuce.
1921 A. Brazil Fortunate Term xii. 160 Opal Earnshaw may go to Hong-Kong if she likes. I don't care about her and her meannesses.
1934 J. Hilton Good-bye, Mr. Chips viii. 55 You can go to blazes for all I care.
1996 M. Cart My Father's Scar 161 ‘Oh, go to hell,’ he tells me.
30. To move, travel, or proceed (to somewhere) so as to perform a specified action, or for the purpose of a specified or implied activity.
a. intransitive. In the infinitive, imperative, present subjunctive, and present tense apart from 3rd singular (as the base form go), with a following verb also in the base form (originally the bare infinitive), e.g. go take a look, let's go get a drink, that's when I go see my coach. Now colloquial (chiefly North American) (nonstandard in British English), often with the sense of motion weakened or absent.Also in various imprecatory phrases (in the imperative or as a wish) used to express dismissal, contempt, etc., as go chase yourself (see chase v.1 7c), go fly a kite (see fly v.1 5), go fuck yourself (see fuck v. Phrases 1a), etc. Cf. sense 30c and note.go figure, go look, go scrape, etc.: see the final element.
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eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. xxx. 228 Sume alwan leaf sellað þonne mon wile slapan gan.
OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 134 Uenatum pergo ic fare huntian; uis doctum ire wylt ðu gan leornian; lectum pergit he gæð rædan.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3598 Ic sal gon seken bote her-on.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Shipman's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 223 Lat vs heere a masse and go we dyne.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 433 Ga purches land quhar-euer he may.
1542 H. Brinkelow Lamentacion sig. Div That I shuld go powre oute my vyces in to the eares of an vnlearned Buszard.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 159 Ga, tak him be the hand.
1591 E. Spenser Teares of Muses in Complaints 398 Now thou maist go pack.
?1602 Narcissus (MS Bodl. Rawl. poet. 212) (1893) 87 Come, daunce vs a morrice, or els goe sell fishe.
1668 J. Howe Blessednesse of Righteous xvi. 258 We might as well go preach to Devils.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 75 I bid him go take Care of his..Things.
1795 Ann. Agric. 23 315 Nor does the drilled corn..go lie (as the farmer calls it) so readily as the broad-cast.
1813 J. Austen Let. 7 Nov. (1995) 254 Your Streatham & my Bookham may go hang.
1849 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 16 170/1 Go hire the needful workmen.
1912 Pedagogical Seminary 19 96 A rebuke to pride with the notion of ‘get out’,..‘Go jump in the lake.’
1968 Encounter Sept. 22/1 Go hit your head against the wall.
1969 ‘A. Glyn’ Dragon Variation vii. 216 Let's go get ourselves a drink.
1988 D. French Working (1991) xi. 371 If I go get my money, you'll leave.
2007 R. Milward Apples xvii. 172 You wanna go see Eve?
b.
(a) intransitive. With to-infinitive.In Old English with inflected infinitive.
ΚΠ
OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1900) II. 418 Hi eodon þa butu his bodunge to gehyrenne.
OE Regularis Concordia (Tiber.) (1993) lxv. 136 Cotidie post matutinalem missam sacerdos..cum reliquis illius ministris..cum omni congregatione eant ad uisitandum infirmum : dæghwamlice æfter capitelmæssan se sacerd..mid oþrum þære þenum..mid ealre geferrædene gan to geneosigenne þære [read þæne] untruman.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 9 Þet beoð alse he seide þe gað to helpe widewen.
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 4296 Þe lyoun goþ to play wiþ-outen þe ȝat In pais wiþ-outen vilanie.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 27482 If þou man gas þin offrand to mak.
1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 35 He bidden was to ga To helpe the kyng Euandre.
1578 M. Jennings tr. E. de Maisonneufve Gerileon of Englande xiii. f. 58v He went to finde Maister Rabalon.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) v. i. 226 Our dinner done, and he not comming thither, I went to seeke him. View more context for this quotation
1687 W. Cross Let. 19 July in R. Law Eng. in W. Afr.: Local Corr. Royal Afr. Co. (2001) II. 118 One of our slaves went to cutt some wood.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xvi. ix. 70 Hearing from Lady Bellaston, that Mr. Western was arrived in Town, she went to pay her Duty to him, at his Lodgings at Piccadilly. View more context for this quotation
1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xxxvii. 19 Coach, servants, gondola, he goes to call.
1864 Macmillan's Mag. Mar. 420/1 When she went to dress for dinner..she put on tartan ribbons.
1906 Dial 1 Jan. 19/1 She forgives the man and goes to find her child.
1972 Life 14 July 40/2 He has gone to look for work.
2000 E. Bunker Educ. of Felon 186 She nodded and went to tell the bartender.
(b) intransitive. With for to and infinitive. Now archaic and regional.
ΚΠ
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xviii. 12 (MED) Wher he shal nat..go for to seeke that that erride?
c1405 (c1375) G. Chaucer Monk's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 117 Euery Reawme wente he for to se.
c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) l. 518 (MED) More y wil the nat respite But that thou goo for to visyte Rounde thys worlde.
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 39v Iupiter by comandement of his fader wente for to destroie the kynge Apollo of paphes.
1547 T. Becon Newe Dialog Thangell of God & Shepherdes sig. D.iv Tell vs therfore..Whyther we shall go for to fynde, This our newe kynge.
1583 R. P. tr. P. de la Sierra Second Pt. Myrror of Knighthood f. 151v, (heading) How that the two Empresses went for to recreate themselves vnto a house of pleasure.
1619 J. Higgins Falles Vnfortunate Princes 154 I went for to destroy the state.
1670 Jovial Compan. (single sheet) They'r gone for to Travel the Nation about.
1798 Sporting Mag. Nov. 101/1 I will do as david did When he Went for to Meet the filistion.
1839 T. C. Halliburton Clockmaker xxxviii. 160 In the afternoon, we went for to take tea with a gentleman that had settled near the fort.
1865 Punch 76/1 We went for to catch a Whale, brave boys!
1903 H. C. Bailey Master of Gray xxxvi. 281 So Willum he goes for to look for she, un ' Willum he finds she in t' old gravel hole.
2005 V. Lane Signs in Blood ii. 153 I still ain't believin' he went for to cross that trestle.
c. intransitive. With and and coordinate verb.Also in various imprecatory phrases (in the imperative or as a wish), as go and chase yourself (see chase v.1 7c), etc. Cf. sense 30a and note.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > bestir oneself > go and do something
goOE
take1795
OE Ælfric Old Test. Summary: Maccabees (Julius) in W. W. Skeat Ælfric's Lives of Saints (1900) II. 118 Onias þa eode and offrode him lac fore þam ælmihtigan Gode.
OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) ix. 13 Gað soðlice & leornigeaþ [L. euntes autem discite] hwæt is, ic wylle mildheortnesse.
a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 71 Goð and sheweð giu giuwer prest.
c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 98 Þe dragoun wraþþed hym vnto þe womman ward & gooþ & fiȝtteþ wiþ oþer of hir kynde.
c1400 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 385 Men schulen fle to heven wiþouten peyne if þei wolden goo and slee..Cristen men.
a1456 J. Lydgate Bycorne & Chychevache (Trin. Cambr. R.3.20) l. 89 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 436 I ful longe may goon and seeke Or I cane fynde a gode repaaste.
1558 Sir T. Gresham in H. H. Gibbs Colloquy on Currency App. 6 Againste all wisdome the seyd bishoppe went and vallewid the French crowne at vjs. ivd.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. iii. 32 Would'st thou haue me go & beg my food. View more context for this quotation
a1631 J. Donne Poems (1650) 3 Goe and catch a falling starre.
1716 J. Digby tr. A. de Wicquefort Embassador & his Functions xi. 76/1 The King never opposes the Will of those of his Subjects, that leave France to go and settle themselves under another Sovereign.
1773 J. Boswell Jrnl. 21 Aug. in Jrnl. Tour Hebrides (1785) 72 Before breakfast, we went and saw the town-hall.
1815 Cork Jacket (Houlston's Juvenile Tracts No. 6) 6 He might go and hang himself for all they cared.
1876 Argosy Aug. 149 She goes and looks out at the murmuring sea.
1942 Sat. Evening Post 22 Aug. 42/3 Le's go and wake us up a preacher.
1984 Times 13 Oct. 30 When he failed to come down next morning she went and found him.
2001 A. Gurnah By the Sea (2002) ii. 58 I'll just go and make myself decent.
d. intransitive. With on (also †in, †upon) and noun. Later also with the sense of motion weakened or absent: to embark on, set out on, begin. Cf. sense 2b.
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OE West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) xi. 3 Ða cwæð Simon Petrus to him, ic wylle gan on fixað.
?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1137 Wrecce men sturuen of hungær; sume ieden on ælmes þe waren sum wile rice men.
c1275 Kentish Serm. in J. Hall Select. Early Middle Eng. (1920) I. 216 Si Mirre signefiet..go ine pelrimage..and to do alle þe gode þet me may do for godes luue.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. 734 His doghter..He bad to gon on his message.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Squire's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 269 On the daunce he gooth [c1415 Corpus Oxf. goþ, c1415 Lansd. goþe, c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 goth] with Canacee.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Matt. xxv. 14 A man that goith in pilgrimage, clepide hise seruauntis [etc.].
c1450 King Ponthus (Digby) in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. (1897) 12 1 (MED) Eueryche of you thre schall goo in his aventure to conquer contrees.
1579 J. Frampton tr. B. de Escalante Disc. Nauigation iv. f. 9 He went upon a voiage.
1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 51 The Women..that called at his House as they were going on Pilgrimage. View more context for this quotation
?1749 W. Duff New Hist. Scotl. 65 He hir'd several Heads of Clans to attend on his Person, when he went on a Journey.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. xi. 179 That you will permit..two of your servants to go upon a message.
1778 Ann. Reg. 1777 Acct. of Bks. 244/1 I never could learn what number of vessels were to go on this expedition.
1801 E. Helme St. Margaret's Cave III. xiv. 270 The reverend priest that married them went on a mission to India.
1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. V. ix. iv. iii. 214 The plaintiff..is obliged to go upon the hunt for other witnesses.
1872 Colborn's U.S. Service Mag. Mar. 344 Was left money by his uncle; went on a spree.
1912 in E. Markham Real Amer. in Romance VII. vi. 103 Sometimes the Indians went on long journeys in search of food.
1950 Big Piney (Wyoming) Examiner 21 Dec. 5/4 Pupsie and momsie can go on a diet together.
1997 Educ. Rev. Summer 37/2 Many colleagues have gone on courses and refreshers to ensure they are competent.
2008 M. Jian Beijing Coma 699 I want to submit a petition! I want to go on a march!
e. intransitive. With to and noun denoting an event, ceremony, etc., at which the subject is or intends to be present as a participant.
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OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Julius) 15 Sept. (2013) 182 He wæs swa gistliþe þæt he for Godes lufon eode to reordum mid þam tocumendum mannum.
OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 60 Sum Iudeisc man wolde gewytan to soþan be ðære halgan mæssan, hwylce mihte heo hæfde... Eode þa to mæssan mid oðrum mannum.
c1175 ( Ælfric's Homily on Nativity of Christ (Bodl. 343) in A. O. Belfour 12th Cent. Homilies in MS Bodl. 343 (1909) 84 Ðesne laf we æteð þonne we mid bileafan gað to halige husle ure hælendes lichame.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 29 Hwet is scrift bute..habben in his þonke þe he nule nefre mare eft ȝe don þeo sunnen þe he geð to scrifte fore.
?a1300 Iacob & Iosep (Bodl.) (1916) 6 While men loueden meri song, gamen & feire tale; Nou hem is wel leuere gon to þe nale.
c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) l. 938 (MED) To souper nowe goo we.
?c1500 Mary Magdalene (Digby) l. 578 Tyme drayt ny to go to dyner.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xxxiij To morow we wyl common more: let vs go to supper.
1629 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime iii. 19 They all go to Masse, and receiue the Communion.
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler iv. 104 We will fish til nine, and then go to Breakfast. View more context for this quotation
1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 253 At ten and four they go to prayers, and after it sing a psalm.
1848 R. Aughtie Diary 3 Dec. in B. Harley & J. Harley Gardener at Chatsworth (1992) 129 Went to tea and spent the evening with the Seddings.
1879 ‘E. Lyall’ Won by Waiting xxix He took a fancy for going to the afternoon service at the abbey.
1920 ‘K. Mansfield’ Let. 31 Jan. (1993) III. 201 Dearest the gong has sounded. I must go to dinner.
1960 A. Christie Adventure of Christmas Pudding 33 Who's going to brave the snow and go to midnight mass?
2011 R. de Nooy Big Stick xii. 94 Dirk went to rehearsals with the Nightinjays twice a week.
f. With verbal noun or gerund.
(a) intransitive. With prefixed a (also †on) (see a prep.1 11b, on prep. 23). Now archaic and regional.See also to go a begging at begging n. 2, to go a-fairing at fairing n.1 3, also to go a-fishing at fishing n.1 2, to go a-girling at girling n.1, to go a-roguing at roguing n. 2, to go a-soldiering at soldier v. 1b, to go a-souling at soul v. 3, to go a-walking at walking n. 1a, to go a-wandering at wandering n. 4, to go a whoring at whoring n., to go a wooing at wooing n. b.
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c1300 St. Kenelm (Laud) 148 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 349 (MED) Þis child scholde wende An hontingue.
a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 2176 Ich wolle now a-ffisschyng go [c1300 Harl. 2277 gon afischeþ] anon.
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 6719 Thanne may he go abegging yerne.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 135 (MED) In þat contree is no nedy man ne non þat goth on beggynge.
a1500 (a1400) Sir Eglamour (Cambr.) (1844) l. 409 (MED) The kyng of Sydon an-huntyng ys gon.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 570/1 I go a foragyng..I go a grasyng, as a horse or beest dothe.
1562 J. Veron Stronge Battery Inuoc. Saintes f. 83 Why..dydde they goe a gaddynge to our Ladye of Wilsdone.
1604 C. Edmondes Observ. Cæsars Comm. II. vii. ix. 65 Such an inconuenience, as might make him repent for going a birding.
1613 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Coxcombe i. iii, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Nn2/1 We shall scout here, as though we went a haying.
1740 T. Gray Let. 2 Apr. in Corr. (1971) I. 146 The two boys..go a-shooting almost every day.
1758 H. Walpole Let. 21 July in Corr. (1837) I. 383 Lord George Sackville refused to go a-buccaneering again, as he called it.
1827 Ladies' Monthly Museum Feb. 80 I need not ask you, Mrs. Walter, to go a gathering nuts.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxi. 665 The King was certainly going a hunting.
1872 T. Hardy Under Greenwood Tree II. v. i. 195 We new-married folk went a-gaying round the parish.
a1907 M. E. Coleridge Poems (1908) 211 I did dream that we went a flying Over the heads of queens and kings.
1960 J. Barth Sot-weed Factor ii. v. 159 The plan was that Pound should go a-pirating for some weeks.
1999 Western Morning News (Electronic ed.) 22 Dec. Gone are the festive days when..the poor of the Westcountry would go a-mumping..for any humble treat they could find.
(b) intransitive. Without prefixed particle.Compare the formally similar sense 2a(c).
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a1500 Sir Orfeo (Harl.) (1966) l. 294 Euery-on an hauke on honde ber, & went haukyng [c1330 Auch. riden on haukin] by þe ryuer.
1658 H. Smith True & Everlasting Rule 2 Nimrod..went hunting before the Lord.
1672 T. Salmon Vindic. Ess. Advancem. Musick 41 We might have gone hunting and hawking.
1707 W. Forbes Duty & Powers Justices of Peace Scotl. ii. 68 No man should Ride or go Hunting or Hawking in his Neighbours Corns from Pasch till they be Shorn.
1749 W. Ellis Compl. Syst. Improvem. Sheep 199 Others..go shooting of Birds.
1846 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Jan. 19/2 The pot-hunting knave, who goes gunning with..a German fowling-piece.
1861 E. Brown Seaman's Narr. vi. 53 He..went gambling, and in a few days lost the whole amount.
1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods II. 604 A miserable set who help the oystermen in winter and ‘go clamming’ in summer.
1915 A. Pollitzer Let. Nov. in G. O'Keeffe & A. Pollitzer Lovingly, Georgia (1990) 75 Over Sat & Sun I went automobiling to Lakewood.
1933 ‘E. Cambridge’ Hostages to Fortune iv. 55 When Catherine went fishing.., she learned to love the quiet beauty of the still, olive water.
1960 G. Snyder Let. 10 Aug. in A. Ginsberg & G. Snyder Sel. Lett. (2009) 31 Joanne and I are going camping..with Zen monk friend.
2003 A. Valdes-Rodriguez Dirty Girls Social Club 16 We used to go clubbing.
g. With noun complement.
(a) intransitive. To move or travel (to somewhere) in a particular capacity or function denoted by the complement. Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > proceed or carry on an action [verb (intransitive)] > be carried on or proceed > in specific way > with regard to degree of success
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1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. ccxxviv/1 Than there were charged certayne burgesses, to go ambassade to the erle.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. ii. 96 Then was I going prisoner to the tower. View more context for this quotation
1600 R. Churche tr. M. Fumée Hist. Troubles Hungarie iii. 90 Iohn Baptiste Castalde chosen to goe Lieutenant into Hungarie for Ferdinand.
1665 S. Pepys Diary 6 Dec. (1972) VI. 320 My Lord Sandwich goes Embassador to Spayne speedily.
1670 A. Marvell Let. 21 Mar. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 314 The King..ordered the Lord Barclay..to go Lord Lieutenant.
1707 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 24 Jan. (O.H.S.) I. 321 He went Chaplain to the Factory.
1799 Missionary Mag. 16 Sept. 428 I shall go passenger, and make the best of my way home.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. iv. 71 One of the boys 'listed; the other had gone apprentice.
1855 W. Smyth Lect. Hist. French Revol. II. (new ed.) xli. 320 In March, 1793, he goes secretary to a revolutionary committee commission sent to the South.
1907 E. Phillpotts Folk Afield 287 I may yet go apprentice to Garcia.
(b) intransitive. To act as bail or stand security; to undertake to give a surety or pay bail on behalf of someone. Esp. in to go bail. Cf. I will go bail at bail n.1 6b.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > demonstrate confidence [phrase]
go1768
to pound it1819
bet1852
to bet the (also a) farm1886
(I, you, etc.) betcha, betcher1922
1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man i. 2 It was but last week he went security for a fellow whose face he scarce knew.
1785 Parl. Reg. Ireland V. 302 I can find three hundred gentlemen who never saw me before, and yet have gone bail for me.
1808 Robbery Bank Pennsylvania 1798 31 I do not recollect either of them saying they would go his bail.
1852 Lamp 31 Jan. 33/1 Gallaher..was made the prey of designing knaves, for whom he went surety, and lost very large sums.
1890 Cassell's Mag. July 470/2 I will go bail for your character.
1905 Overland Monthly Aug. 144/2 In a desire to help a neighbor I went his surety.
1909 N. O'Winter Guatemala & her People of To-day v. 120 One labourer goes security for another by guaranteeing that the latter will carry out his part.
1920 Boilermakers' & Iron Ship Builders' Jrnl. Mar. 205 This man got in trouble and two of our members went his bond for $1,100.
2009 J. Kellerman True Detectives xx. 188 He was no big-time player and no one cared enough to go his bail.
31. In various idiomatic expressions and phrases in which some action other than movement towards the given destination is implied.Cf. be v. 8b, 8c.
a. With to.
(a) gen. To visit a specified place, thing, or person in order to perform an implied action or engage in an implied activity.See also to go to bed at bed n. Phrases 3, to go to church at church n.1 and adj. Phrases 2, to go to ground at ground n. 8f.
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OE Beowulf (2008) 1232 Eode þa to setle.
OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iv. xxxiii. 308 On morgen, þa he aras, þa ongan he þencan swa scyldig, þæt he wolde to baðe gan & þær mid þy wætere þæs bæþes aþwean þone wom þære synne.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 357 Þonne men gað to bedde, þu scalt forð wenden.
c1300 St. Edmund Rich (Laud) 47 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 432 Þis children ȝeoden to scole þo and duden heore moder heste.
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) iii. l. 325 Wnwarnyt of þar spyis,..[he] ȝheide to bede.
1580 R. Parsons (title) A Brief Discovrs contayning certayne Reasons why Catholiques refuse to goe to Church.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ ii. xv. 28 Prince Maurice..hath a limited allowance, nor hath he any implicit command when he goes to the field.
1772 Brit. Mag. Jan. 24/2 The poor sick man..went to his bed.
1819 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. June 691/2 He ought to go to the courts of equity.
1894 Scribner's Mag. Feb. 259/1 They went to table and the dinner proceeded as pleasantly as an unceremonious family dinner should.
1939 Life 16 Jan. 49/1 The number of patients who go to the dentist before it is too late has increased tremendously.
1988 W. Diehl Thai Horse (1989) 190 If I went to the police it would cause problems for my friends.
2014 Church Times 5 Sept. 18/1 As the First World War entered its second year, King George V, Queen Mary, and Queen Alexandra went to church to upraise their hearts with the nation.
(b) To pay a visit to the toilet in order to urinate or defecate; to urinate or defecate in a toilet; = to go to the toilet at toilet n. Phrases 1.
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eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xxviii. 197 Ða gewearð hine ðæt he gecierde inn to ðæm scræfe, & wolde him ðær gan to feltune.
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 168 (MED) A man schulde not, as soone as he hadde ete, anoon riȝt go to sege [L. sellam] as doiþ a beest.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 202 Goo to pryvy, or to shytyn, acello.
1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus xvii. 36 Persons thus vermifyed, seldom go to stool without avoiding a great quantity of those verminous seeds.
1701 tr. A. Belloste Hospital-surgeon xviii. 137 The Patient went to Stool every Day without Pain.
1799 T. Garnett Treat. Mineral Waters Harrogate. iii. 177 What will contribute most to the cure and prevention of such complaints, is to endeavour to acquire a habit of going to stool at a certain hour.
1820 Kirby's Wonderful & Eccentric Museum 4 90 The door out of which the prisoner went to the privy was certainly left open, by which means he could return quickly.
1832 Ann. Reg. July 84/2 I thought I heard a door shut. I believe he went to the water-closet on the second floor.
1899 Sc. Law Reporter 37 139/1 The pursuer..had occasion to go to the lavatory of the defender's public house.
1940 N. Mitford Pigeon Pie ii. 27 In the night when you want to go to the loo.
1950 L. A. Kirkendall Sex Educ. as Human Relations vii. 69 The child can learn just as easily to say ‘go to the toilet’ or ‘bowel movement’ as to learn ‘wee-wee’ or ‘go potty’.
1988 Old Farmer's Almanac 197 106 The Israelis went to the ‘house of honor’; the Egyptians, to the ‘house of the morning’; Romans, to the ‘necessarium’; and Tudors went to the ‘privy’, or the ‘house of privacy’ (or they went to the ‘Jakes’..).
1992 A. J. Deane-Drummond Arrows of Fortune x. 65 The door was kept locked. Every time I wanted to go to the lavatory I had to bang on it. The Carabinieri then unlocked it.
2003 Orlando (Florida) Sentinel (Nexis) 29 June f1 Campbell has a pained expression on his face, as if he really, really has to go to the bathroom.
b. intransitive. With to, on, †in, †upon. To begin or pursue a career, occupation, or way of life associated with the place or thing specified.to go to the bar, to go on the highway, to go to prison, to go on the road, to go to sea, to go on the stage, to go on the streets, etc.: see the final element.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [verb (intransitive)] > practise prostitution > become a prostitute
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > [verb (intransitive)] > take up theatrical profession
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OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Julius) 7 Mar. (2013) 62 He forlet þa wæpna ond ða woruldlican wisan ond eode on þæt mynster ond wæs þær mæssepreost ond abbod.
OE Confessionale Pseudo-Egberti (Junius) 181 Swa hwylc se ðe fela yfela do in morðre and in unrihthæmede mid neatum and mid wifum, ga in mynster and a fæste oð his daga ende.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 165 (MED) Walsche men..beeþ redy for to goo somtyme to þe plowȝ and somtyme to dedes of armes.
a1400 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Egerton) (1966) l. 71 (MED) Ne can y noȝt to scole goone Without Blaunchefloure.
c1450 in F. J. Furnivall Hymns to Virgin & Christ (1867) 90 Quod resoun, ‘in age of xx Ȝeer Goo to oxenford, or lerne lawe.’
1509 Parlyament Deuylles (de Worde) sig. A.iiiv I wyst hym [sc. Jesus] neuer go to scole And yet I sawe hym dyspute in the scole hall.
1655 in H. Foley Rec. Eng. Province Soc. Jesus (1878) III. 434 I went to the College of St. Omer, where I made one year's syntax.
1668 S. Pepys Diary 29 Mar. (1976) IX. 138 Sir W. Penn's going to sea doth dislike the Parliament mightily.
1727 A. Boyer Dictionaire Royal (rev. ed.) (at cited word) To go upon the Highway (to be a High-way man).
1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 62 I directly advise you to go upon the Road..the only Post of Honour left you.
1825 S. T. Coleridge Let. 18 Oct. (1971) V. 503 She must & I doubt not will pardon me for the abruptness with which I put the negative on her going to Eton.
1883 D. C. Murray By Gate of Sea I. v. 138 She had gone upon the stage..to make bread for herself.
1951 J. D. Salinger Catcher in Rye xii. 103 My father wants me to go to Yale, or maybe Princeton.
1977 D. Bagley Enemy xv. 131 This one's not for the slammer. He'll go to Broadmoor for sure.
2005 T. Hall Salaam Brick Lane x. 217 The fact that I went to public school makes me a toff in the eyes of many working-class people.
c. intransitive. With in, into, †til, to, unto. Of a man: to have sexual intercourse with a particular woman. Also in to go in. archaic and rare in later use.Frequently with allusion to passages in the Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures such as Genesis 38:8 (see quot. a1382).Quot. 1890 is a translation of quot. eOE.
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eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) ii. v. 110 He..unalyfedre forlegenesse & egeslicre wæs besmiten, swa þæt he eode to his fæder wife [L. ita ut uxorem patris haberet].
OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Num. (Claud.) xxv. 1 Hi eodon ða to manega of ðam folce to ðam myltystrum & wið hi hæmdon [L. fornicatus est populus cum filiabus Moab].
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 223 Þe oþer cas huer me may zeneȝy be spoushod is huanne man geþ to his wyue ine time þet he ne ssolde naȝt guo.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xxxviii. 8 Go inne to þe wyf [L. Ingredere ad uxorem] of þi broþer..þat þou rere seed to þi broþer.
c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 32 Þe sones of god..han goon into þese douȝtris of men, and þei han gendrid gyauntis.
c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) l. 246 (MED) When he tyll Eue agan can go, Then bare scho suns and doyghters.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. f. 10 Iudas when he would geue hymselfe to fornication agaynst the lawe of nature, went into his sonnes wife.
?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes f. 76v The candles might not bee lyghted in that house, where the man was, when that hee woulde go vnto his wife.
1608 T. Draxe Churches Securitie 18 Good Vrias..made a conscience to go into his wife.
1651 J. F. tr. H. C. Agrippa Three Bks. Occult Philos. iii. xli. 483 The ghosts which they call Catechanæ were wont to return back into their bodies, and go in to their wives, and lie with them.
1808 A. Loudon Select. Interesting Narr. Outrages Indians I. 240 The man goes in unto the woman, and she becomes his wife.
1890 T. Miller Old Eng. Version Bede's Eccl. Hist. ii. v. 111 He..was polluted with unlawful and fearful fornication, so that he went in to his father's wife.
1906 G. Moore Mem. My Dead Life (1923) ix. 167 She was une file en marbre, but not at all une file de marbre; and, all preliminaries over, I went in unto her.
d. intransitive. to go to (the) bull (also cow, horse, etc.). Of an animal: to copulate with (the animal specified). Also occasionally † to go to man: (of a woman) to have sex with a man (obsolete).
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [verb (intransitive)] > copulate
to go to (the) bull (also cow, horse, etc.)a1393
entera1425
makea1522
lime1555
match1569
generate1605
copulate1632
fere1632
strene1820
pair1908
mate1927
to saw a chunk off1961
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. l. 308 Sche couthe noght hir Maidenhede Defende..And thus this maiden goth to manne.
1566 T. Blundeville Fower Offices Horsemanshippe vii. f. 21v Puttinge straked roddes in the sight and face of the Ewes, when they went to Ramme, and of the she Goates when they wente to bucke, made all the ofsprynge of Labans flocke to be blacke and spotted.
1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. E.ivv They be as chaste as a Cowe I haue yt goeth to Bull euery moone, with what Bull she careth not.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 117 What age dooe you thinke best for the mare to go to the Horse?
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 127*v Yf you suffer him immediatly..to goe to the Cowe, it is certaine he may geat a Calfe.
1616 B. Jonson Epigrammes xc, in Wks. I. 793 When Mill first came to court, the vnprofiting foole..Was dull, and long, ere shee would goe to man.
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 144 The dung used to the privities of a Mare with Turpentine causeth her to goe to Horse.
1729 R. Bradley Gentleman & Farmer's Guide iii. 132 In many Places they desire to have their Cows go to Bull about the End of July, that they may calve in March or April.
1799 Ann. Agric. 32 57 The cow would not in this way go to bull.
1892 O. R. Gleason & L. E. MacLeod Horse Bk. 93 When once the time of a mare is known, the breeder can generally regulate her going to the horse so as to have the colt appear at whatever season he considers most desirable.
1932 A. Bell Cherry Tree iv. 40 He always contrived to have his cow somewhere else when his unwelcome callers appeared... She'd gone to the bull, that was all he'd tell them.
1994 Agric. Hist. Rev. 42 6/1 During the coming year these seven new heifers, now entering their third year, will go to the bull.
e. intransitive. colloquial. Without complement. To urinate or defecate; to go to the toilet.Probably reflecting elliptical uses of fuller expressions illustrated in sense 31a, as to go to the toilet, bathroom, etc.Cf. be v. 8d(b).
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > [verb (intransitive)]
to do one's business1596
to pluck a rose1613
to pay a call1648
to go backward1748
go1804
to do (one's) duty1935
to wash one's hands1938
to spend a penny1945
perform1963
1804 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1962) II. 2085 I remained still three-quarters of an hour with hot water bottle to my belly..with pains & sore uneasiness, & indescribable desires—at length went.
1926 E. Bowen Ann Lee's 71 Do you want to go somewhere? Have you got a pain?
1935 Time 24 June 45/1 I took off all my clothes but my drawers and—well—I had to go.
1962 J. Wain Strike Father Dead 138 He's in the men's room. He's been wanting to go all evening, but as long as you were playing he didn't want to miss a note.
2004 S. Hall Electric Michelangelo 82 He was giving her one when she said she had to go. You know, go. So he said he dropped her and she went right there in front of him, said she didn't care.
32.
a. intransitive. To have recourse to, resort to, or set about some specified action, activity, occupation, etc.; to resort to some specified means of achieving one's goal. Chiefly with to, now only followed by a verbal noun or gerund. Now chiefly colloquial and regional, except as passing into sense 33. See also to go to blows at blow n.1 3, to go to cuffs at cuff n.2 1b, to go to handicuffs at handicuff n.1, to go to housekeeping at housekeeping n. 1a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > begin an action or fall to doing something
fangc888
goOE
fallc1175
to fall upon ——a1398
to take upa1400
fall?c1450
to fall out ina1555
get1751
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > recourse > have recourse to [verb (transitive)] > specifically a course of action
runOE
goOE
drawc1275
to found to1352
resorta1425
tirvec1425
to fall on ——1634
to fall into ——1668
to fall back on1777
the world > action or operation > undertaking > undertake [verb (transitive)]
underfoc893
fandOE
onfangOE
undernimc1000
takec1175
to take tillc1175
to take toa1250
underfongc1330
undertakea1340
to take in (also on) handa1350
undertakec1385
attamec1386
to take in (also on) handc1390
embrace1393
emprisec1410
to put to one's hand (also hands)c1410
to go upon ——c1450
enterprise?1473
to set (one's) hand to1477
go?a1500
accept1524
assume1530
to hent in (also upon) handc1540
to swallow up1544
to take to task1546
to go into ——?1548
to set in hand1548
to fare about1563
entertain1569
undergo1606
to set about ——1611
to take up1660
to come at ——1901
OE tr. Chrodegang of Metz Regula Canonicorum (Corpus Cambr. 191) liv. 285 Ne gæð nan cempa mid his wife to campe [L. pergit ad bellum].
OE Ælfric Let. to Sigeweard (De Veteri et Novo Test.) (Laud) 35 He [sc. Dauid] eode to anwige ongean þone ent, Goliam gehaten, þa þa he cniht wæs.
c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 875 Ȝif þu gest herof to disputinge, Ich wepe bet þane þu singe.
1381 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 55 Iohan schep..biddeþ Pers plouȝman go to his werk.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6822 Þam..þat til wikcud dedes gaas [Trin. Cambr. gos].
?a1500 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 409 And þe electors to go to a new eleccioun.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. iv. 31 O I could deuide my selfe, and go to buffets, for mouing such a dish of skim milke with so honorable an action. View more context for this quotation
1611 C. Tourneur Atheist's Trag. (new ed.) i. sig. C2v If you goe to buffets among the Boyes, they'l giue you one.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1623) iv. iii. 31 I haue much to do, But to go hang my head all at one side.
1706 E. Ward Rambling Fuddle-caps 9 The Spark in return to the Quean of the Kitchin, In wonderful rage went to Cursing and Bitching.
1790 By-stander 79 Two of these different professions having disagreed, they went to boxing.
1807 E. S. Barrett Rising Sun III. 151 After these sensible speeches, they went to feasting together.
1891 M. E. Wilkins New Eng. Nun 113 There's that Hannah Redman..the girl that stole. Now she's gone to begging.
1906 D. E. Johnston Hist. Middle New River Settlement vii. 202 When he reached camp..he could start a fire, find water, and go to cooking quicker than the best trained cook in the land.
1997 J. Daugharty Earl in Yellow Shirt 40 Then he goes to digging in his pocket for a old knife his daddy give him.
b. To do or resort to doing something regarded as improper, bold, foolish, etc., or which otherwise prompts disapproval, annoyance, surprise, or amusement.
(a) intransitive. With infinitive or to and gerund, or for to and infinitive. Frequently in negative or hypothetical contexts. Chiefly colloquial (now archaic and regional).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > courage > daring > reckless daring > be so foolish as to dare to [verb]
go1686
1686 Love's Posie xviii. 115 Do not go to persuade me, that you did it for my sake.
1696 Alcander & Philocrates ii. 63 The Footman, who cou'd not see him that spoke to him by reason of the obscurity, did not go to imagine that it might be some other than Philabel, who ask'd for the Letter.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. xiii. 317 If the best He that wears a Head was for to go for to offer for to say such an affronting Word to me, I would never give him my Company afterwards. View more context for this quotation
1798 T. Morton Secrets Worth Knowing i. i. 6 Sure nobody wou'd go to kill so handsome and good a creature.
1803 M. Charlton Wife & Mistress (ed. 2) II. 59 A non-natural woman, to go to leave her children.
1886 H. Baumann Londinismen 65/1 Don't you go for to think thet 'cos my 'air is grey, I ain't got any strength left me.
1890 Mrs. H. Wood House of Halliwell II. xi. 293 ‘Dear ma'am’, uttered Nurse Gill, ‘you'd never go to suspect her!’
1911 Sat. Evening Post 11 Feb. 16/2 Don't you go to thinking you've made me a one-sided bargain.
1915 C. Mackenzie Guy & Pauline i. 46 I knows better than go for to contradict him.
1996 J. Aiken Cockatrice Boys (2002) 178 Don't you go for to bash him, dearie.
(b) intransitive. colloquial. With and and coordinate verb. Cf. been and (gone and) —— at be v. Phrases 1d.
ΚΠ
1736 A. Langford Lover his own Rival vii. 31 'Tis well if he don't go and hang himself to be reveng'd of us.
1755 H. Walpole Corr. (ed. 3) III. cclxvii. 105 Don't go and imagine that £1,200,000 was all Sunk in the gulph of Madame Pompadour.
1788 R. Bage James Wallace III. 27 When I expects him here every day..he goes and gets himself shot, like a fool.
1878 Scribner's Monthly 16 87/1 The fool has gone and got married.
1891 Temple Bar Aug. 470 That I should actually have been and gone and told him so!
1952 Pop. Sci. Mar. 197/1 The old one was perfectly good, but no, you had to go and squander hard-earned cash on a new one.
1966 J. J. Phillips Mojo Hand 153 Lawdamercy! Mr. Talbert, what you want to go and do that for?
2011 Sun (Nexis) 20 May 92 The man is nearly 35, yet he's only gone and got a spray tan!
(c) intransitive. colloquial. With verbal noun or gerund. Frequently in negative or hypothetical contexts.
ΚΠ
1739 G. Whitefield Christian's Compan. xii. 294 These are Truths of the utmost Consequence; therefore, do not go contradicting, do not go blaspheming away.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. i. 23 I was resolved not to go sneaking to the lower professors.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. iii. 21 Don't go saying I never knew a mother.
1873 T. Hardy Pair of Blue Eyes III. ii. 58 But let us confine our attention to ourselves, not go thinking of might-have-beens.
1911 L. Merrick Peggy Harper iii. i. 287 ‘You leave the contract to me...’ ‘I can do all that's wanted... You'd go asking too much and queering the job for me.’
1949 A. Wilson Wrong Set 49 You had better put your own house in order before you go listening to wicked lies.
2004 D. Alper Trading Tatiana xiii. 96 Don't go analysing it and coming up with excuses.
c. intransitive. With infinitive. To attempt movement or motion of some kind; to make as if to do something.
ΚΠ
1776 Maiden Aunt I. 55 But mind me, Emma, if you go to slip out of the room, I'll send old Harley to plague you.
1842 J. S. Knowles Rose of Arragon v. i. in Dramatic Wks. (1859) 396 Omer arrests her arm as she is going to stab herself.
1863 Hist. Rec. Marriage Prince of Wales with Princess of Denmark 24 A general officer following stood upon the skirt of her rich robe, which, as she went to move forward again, brought her up..with a jerk.
1903 Southwestern Rep. 71 631/1 Just as he went to get on the train it gave a sort of lunge.
1982 P. Redmond Brookside (Mersey TV transmission script) (O.E.D. Archive) Episode 5. 36 (stage direct.) She goes to speak—but he continues quickly to silence her.
2002 J. A. Tobin Stories from Marshall Islands 70/1 He went to grab her, but the girl again threw down another coconut shell.
33. intransitive. With to (also †unto). To turn one's attention to a matter, subject, etc.; to proceed or progress from one subject, stage, action, etc., to another; to move on to something. Cf. to go on 2c at Phrasal verbs 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > progress or advance in an action [verb (intransitive)] > progress or advance to another action
suea1200
goc1275
to pass forthc1384
proceeda1393
to go on1566
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 15201 Lette we nu beon Cadwaðlan. and ga we to Edwine aȝan.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale (Ellesmere) (1875) l. 898 Passe ouer this, I go my tale vn-to.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Shipman's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 313 And shortly to the poynt right for to gon This faire wyf acorded with Daun Iohn.
?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 106 And if þise be nouȝt sufficiant, it byhoueþ to goo [?a1425 N. Y. Acad. Med. passe] to stronger [prescriptions].
1538 M. Coverdale tr. M. Luther Expos. Magnificat sig. L.vv Now let vs go to the songe: Blessed be the Lorde God of Israel.
1596 E. Topsell Reward of Relig. xi. 208 He..tarieth and sitteth downe, where we will leaue him, and goe to the second part, which is the witnes of this conference.
a1618 R. Rogers Samuels Encounter with Saul (1620) 318 But to goe to the second sort: if any of good hope that wee liue with, doe fall into any fault [etc.]
1694 H. Cornwallis Set on Great Pot 12 From the Jews let us now go to the Christians, and see how well they practised this Duty.
1755 Refl. upon Matrimony 41 Enough has been said on this subject, let us go to the last Thing premised.
1778 tr. J. B. Bossuet Universal Hist. (new ed.) 342 Argue with a phrentic person,..you do but more provoke him... You must go to the cause.
1840 Mirror of Parl. (3rd Sess. 14th Parl.) 3 2469/1 I will now go to the question of the opium ships.
1849 Introd. Narr. & Rep. Trial & Execution J. B. Rush p. xxxviii/1 After much trivial evidence on this point, the Prisoner went to more important matter.
1939 Crisis Jan. 21/2 The conversation went to other topics.
1998 N.Y. Times 23 Apr. a1/5 If we go to brain-attention disorders, there are six boys with attention-deficit disorder to every one girl.
34.
a. intransitive. With to. To turn to or refer to an authority, source of information, etc.; to consult something or someone for information or guidance.See also to go to the country at country n. and adj. Phrases 4, to go to the law at law n.1 8a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > recourse > have recourse to [verb (transitive)]
fang855
runOE
to take to ——?c1225
seeka1300
goc1390
to have (one's or a) recourse toc1405
recourse?a1425
suit1450
to take (also make or make one's) recourse to (also into)c1456
repairc1475
to fall to ——1490
recur1511
to take unto ——1553
flee1563
betake1590
retreat1650
to call on ——1721
devolve1744
to draw upon ——1800
to draw on ——a1817
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. i. l. 44 ‘Go to þe gospel,’ quaþ heo.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. x. l. 192 Who-so gloseth as gylours don go me to þe same.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 93 (MED) Goþ more to þe lawe and to þe witnes.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 376/2 Go me to the newe lawe and to those sacramentes which Tyndall agreeth for sacramentes.
1608 J. Panke Fal of Babel sig. Dv If you wil needs go to Fathers & ancients, go to them of 1500. 1400. 1300. 1200. 1000. yeares since, & not to them which lived in the Tyranny of ignorance.
1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. ii. xi. 263 As soon..as they had cast the Dice, they went to the Book, and there found every Man his Doom.
1742 A. Gib Warning against Ministrations G. Whitefield 31 We need not go to the Word of God, to enquire what is the proper Form and Order of his visible House.
1783 H. Taylor Farther Thoughts on Grand Apostacy 105 It is..the Protestant principle to go to Scripture itself, as the only Rule we have to trust to.
1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 76 You must go to Aristotle for that.
1878 Scribner's Monthly 15 737/1 Why does not this artist go to nature?
1892 Sat. Rev. 8 Oct. 419/2 She need not go to others for her bons mots.
1972 Life 11 Feb. 14/1 If you go to the Encyclopedia Britannica, you will not learn much about Mary Todd Lincoln.
1979 Yale Apr. cn26/2 We..have gone to outside sources for the low-down.
2010 N. M. Coggins & K. Coggins I'm not on Diet iv. 131 I went to the internet and found several 2008 articles on various types of ‘super foods’.
b. intransitive. To appear before (also †afore), or present one's case to, a judge, tribunal, or other judicial authority. Cf. sense 38b, to go up 7a at Phrasal verbs 1.
ΚΠ
c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 74 Thei went a-fore Jupiter for to be iuged of þat discorde.
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope v. xiii. f. lxxxxj The bretheren assembled them thre to gyder and wente before the Iuge.
1590 A. Prowse tr. J. Taffin Of Markes Children of God xi. f. 96 The Apostles.., after they had been publikelie whipped for the name of Iesus Christ, they went before the councel, reioycing that they had this honour to suffer reproach for his name.
1636 tr. J. Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin Ariana ii. vii. 306 This infamous Emperour..drew that murtherer from hence, for to goe before the Senate, and name himselfe falsly the adulterer of the chaste Princesse.
1681 Arraignm. & Plea E. Fitz-Harris 44 If they had taken Issue upon that, we might have gone to a Jury where the matter would have been easily proved.
1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 52 The Parties go before the Judge by Appeal.
1796 Protestant Dissenter's Mag. Feb. 57 Thus blinded they go before the court, when the impartial exposition of the judge shows they their error.
1825 New Monthly Mag. 14 193 Mr. Salmon..is determined to go to a jury.
1881 Philadelphia Rec. No. 3463. 4 When the bar-tender goes before a jury the above statement evidently will be his defence.
1917 M. Gyte Diary 10 Jan. (1999) 113 Our Tony..went before the Medical board and passed for General Service (A1).
1991 R. Reiner Chief Constables iv. xi. 296 He went before the crown court and was convicted on overwhelming evidence.
35.
a. intransitive. With to or adverbial complement or phrase. With reference to financial or commercial transactions: to make, raise, or lower an offer, price, etc., to a certain level or amount. Also occasionally transitive with the offer, price, etc., as subject (cf. sense 35e).
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (intransitive)] > make various types of bid > offer to specific amount
go1540
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus ii. v. sig. Niiv Of howe moche pryce women..i. howe moche wylt thou paye, or what price wilte thou go to for thy women [L. Quanti praecij mulieres]?
1632 P. Massinger Maid of Honour iii. i. sig. F2 It is too little; yet Since you haue said the word, I am content, But will not goe a gazet lesse.
1639 J. Shirley Maides Revenge iii. sig. E4 We can prolong life. Ans[ilva]. And kill too can you not? Sh[arkino]. Oh any that will goe to the price.
1650 J. Howell Addit. Lett. xv. 27 in Epistolæ Ho-elianæ (ed. 2) The Parlement persists in their first Propositions, and will go nothing less.
1704 N. N. tr. T. Boccalini Advts. from Parnassus i. 92 Poor Literati..could not afford to go the Price of Better Meat.
1721 J. Perry Acct. Stopping Daggenham Breach 30 Having made it sure that no Man else would go below him.
1833 Niles' Weekly Reg. 16 Feb. 415/1 He would go no lower than 20 per cent. on cotton.
1892 Strand Mag. 4 294/2 The price was higher than she cared to go to.
1911 M.S. Watts Legacy ii. 209 ‘If it got down to ten, Jack—’ ‘Yes, I could go ten dollars,’ said Jack, brightening.
1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags (1943) ii. 85 Twenty-five pounds... Thirty. I can't go higher than thirty.
2013 Express (Nexis) 28 June 80 It is thought that United would be prepared to go up to £15m for the 28-year-old.
b. intransitive. To put or subject oneself to a certain amount of expense, trouble, or effort.
ΚΠ
1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 75 For euerie daie in the yere (whan they woulde goe to the cost) they shoulde be hable to make a new galey.
a1660 T. Powell Humane Industry (1661) ix. 140 Wonderfull things might be done..if any would go to the expence of proving some usefull experiments.
1682 H. Keepe Monumenta Westmonasteriensia To Rdr. sig. A7v Weaver..hath..trusted to the credit of those Books and Authors from whence he drew them, than gone to the trouble of searching whether any such [i.e. Antient Epitaphs and Inscriptions] were remaining.
1733 Shaftesbury's Characteristicks (new ed.) I. Bookseller's Advt. Of a smaller price for the benefit of many that cannot easily afford to go to the expense of the large handsom Editions.
1795 C. B. Wadstrom Ess. Colonization II. xi. 128 I went to the expense, of altering the plate accordingly.
1890 Temple Bar Aug. 576 Arden has gone to the ridiculous cost of engaging Ridge.
1895 ‘M. Corelli’ Sorrows Satan (1897) ix. 98 Few publishers..go to the trouble of..giving the number of copies for an Edition.
1921 Amer. Econ. 2 Sept. 77/3 The government went to some effort to prevent any more experiences like the battle of Little Big Horn.
1948 Pop. Photogr. June 168/1 Professional studios in the city have to go to great expense to get hold of models like these.
2004 J. Lahiri Namesake 45 Why had he gone to the trouble of calling, only to ask an obvious question?
c. intransitive. With to or adverbial phrase. To carry one's action to a specified point of progress, completeness, etc. Cf. to go so (also as) far as (to do something) at Phrases 2b.Also in †to go less: to take lesser measures (obsolete).See also to go the whole hog at hog n.1 Phrases 4, to go a (great, etc.) length, to go the extra mile at mile n.1 Phrases 2a, to go near at near adv.2 13c, to go (to) the length of at length n. 5b, to go all the way at way n.1 and int.1 Phrases 1a(c)(i).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > advance (a proceeding) from previous stage [verb (transitive)] > carry to a farther or spec. limit
go1577
carrya1631
push1676
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 21 In Syria, where they can not goe very deepe, they use..very little Plowes.
a1631 J. Donne LXXX Serm. (1640) lx. 605 No perplexity how they should subsist if they were so stiffe, ever brought them to goe lesse to any prevarications, or modifications.
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 391 It was objected..that the Law having made the Offence to be death, it was not safe to go lesse.
1689 T. Rymer View Govt. Europe 3 We are not to stick at the Letter, but go to the foundation, to the inside and essence of things.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. vi. 293 Unless we can discover their natural dependence; which in their primary Qualities, we can go but a very little way in.
1722 J. Collier Ess. Moral Subj. (new ed.) i. 182 The generality..want either Force, or Inclination, to go to the Bottom, and try the Merits.
1757 S. Foote Author Epil. When she's quite in Voice she'll go to C.
1759 F. Home Med. Facts & Exper. i. viii. 105 If the caries can be found out, I think we may go a great way to cure the disease.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 182 Having gone all lengths with a faction while it was uppermost.
1879 M. J. Guest Lect. Hist. Eng. xlvii. 476 Strafford really went some way towards bringing his scheme to pass.
1916 Hansard Commons 17 July 745/1 The hon. Gentleman..just went short of saying that I did this on purpose.
1933 Week-end Rev. 28 Jan. 100/1 Apart from a morbid desire to see how far he was prepared to go, I did not enjoy it.
2000 N. C. Unger Fighting Bob La Follette i. 16 Bob went to extreme measures to satisfy his relentless desire for information.
d. intransitive. With adjective or noun complement, forming various phrases with the sense ‘to share equally in something’, esp. with reference to expense or cost.See also to go Dutch at Dutch adv. 2, to go halves at half n. Phrases 2i, to go shares at share n.2 Phrases 4b, to go snacks (†or snack) at snack n.2 3c.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > sharing > share [verb (intransitive)]
scot?c1225
deal1297
partc1300
to take partc1384
departc1440
skair1462
impart1471
participate1531
communicate1541
to part stakes (also shares)1553
boot1554
partake1561
intercommune1601
copart1637
to go sharers1644
to run shares1644
intervene1646
go1653
to go a share1655
to share and share alike (formerly also like)1656
to go shares1658
to go share and share alikea1661
to go snips (or snip)1671
to go snacks (or snack)1693
to club one's shares1814
to cut in1890
1653 Mercurius Politicus No. 138. 2206 They apprehended their taking part with him, were to hazard their whole, in going halves with a desperate Gamester, that hath nothing to stake but a broken reputation.
1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. xvi. 168 Had you 500 l...he will have it to a penny in a short while; with whom the Waiter goes snips.
1701 G. Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair iv. ii. 32 Well, Monsieur! 'tis about a thousand Pounds; we go Snacks.
1733 Oxf. Act ii. 19 If we can write an Answer, I fancy we shall get something by it, and so, Sir, we will go Sharers.
1818 T. Moore Let. 6 May (1853) II. 136 I go half and half with the Longmans.
1876 E. Thorne Queen of Colonies 119 They [sc. the Chinese] appear to have no quarrels among themselves when working in partnerships, or as the digging phrase is, ‘going mates’.
1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn v. 63 We'll go Dutch.
1973 R. Travers Murder in Blue Mountains ii. 13 His carefully written advertisement, offering to go partners on equal shares in a prospecting trip, was at first placed in the evening paper.
2003 Company June 89/3 Rick..wanted me to go halves on his massive car insurance.
e. transitive. To pay or stand the expense of, esp. on behalf of someone else. Chiefly U.S. Now rare except as implied in sense 30g(b).
ΚΠ
1807 A. G. Hunter Let. 31 Mar. in T. Constable A. Constable & his Lit. Correspondents (1873) I. 128 We wished him to have taken a barouche-landau, but he would not go the price.
1865 ‘A. Ward’ in Bristol Rec. & Commerc. Reg. 13 Apr. 4/2 Don't care if I duz..perwided u go the Ticket.
1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xliii. 438 There's one thing..which a person won't take in pine if he can go walnut; and won't take in walnut if he can go mahogany... That's a coffin.
1969 ‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp (new ed.) 64 She went his train fare.
36.
a. transitive. To risk, venture, stake, wager (an amount of money). Chiefly in various card games or gambling contexts. Also intransitive with comparative adverb. Now rare.Cf. to go (a person) one better, to go one better: see one adj., n., and pron. Phrases 5a.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > bet on [verb (transitive)] > bet (money, etc.)
laya1300
wed1362
to lay downc1430
setc1460
jeopardc1470
wage1484
holda1500
pary?a1505
to stake down1565
stake1591
gagec1598
bet?a1600
go1607
wagera1616
abet1617
impone1702
sport1706
stand1795
gamble1813
parlay1828
ante1846
to put on1890
plunge1919
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > play at cards [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics > bid or stake
vie1565
revie1577
to vie it1591
go1879
bid1908
1607 B. Jonson Volpone iii. v. sig. G3v Like your wanton gam'ster, at Primero, Whose thought had whisper'd to him not go lesse. View more context for this quotation
1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 283 This Gentleman would always go half a Crown with me.
1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man iii. 31 Men that would go forty guineas on a game of cribbage.
1846 S. F. Smith Theatr. Apprenticeship 148 My adversary went the dollar, and five better. I went that and ten.
1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. vi. 43 And I'll go another seven and sixpence to name which is the helplessest, the unborn baby or you!
1864 W. B. Dick Amer. Hoyle (1866) 174 B. puts down a dime. C. says, ‘I'll go a dime better,’ and he puts down two dimes.
1879 ‘Cavendish’ Card Ess. 59 Each that stood might pass or make the renvi, that is go better again.
1903 Windsor Mag. 17 564 ‘I'll go a fiver better.’ ‘I'm out of this hand,’ said I.
1919 C. Drew Doings of Dave 104 You shove a couple of frogskins on him, and I'll go ten bob with you.
1985 J. Sullivan Only Fools & Horses (1999) I. 4th Ser. Episode 6. 244 I will go a pound.
b. transitive. Originally and chiefly U.S. colloquial. To challenge or take on (a person) in a wager, game, or offer. Chiefly with the amount wagered as indirect object. Now rare.
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1839 Spirit of Times 10 Aug. 267/1 I'll go you twenty this pop.
1847 W. T. Porter Quarter Race Kentucky 179 I knows Bill well, and I'll go you an independent on his beating yon feller bad.
1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly I. Prol. ii. 27 The very dice on the counter with which the bar-keeper used to ‘go’ the miners for drinks.
1883 Blue & Gold (Univ. Calif.) 10 131 Lepidus I guess I can raise that just five. Gallus. I'll go you ten better.
1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail xxiv. 161 ‘Surely you won't refuse to be my guest here..!’ ‘Wallace,’ said Thorpe, ‘I'll go you.’
1908 ‘O. Henry’ in Everybody's Mag. Dec. 796/1 ‘Believe I'll go you,’ he said, brightening... ‘I'll accept the invitation gladly.’
1923 Publ. Texas Folk-lore Soc. 2 50 Go yer a dime he's daid.
1941 C. B. Miller Hudson Valley Squire 27 I'll go you five dollars that my bird licks yours to a finish.
c. transitive. Cards (esp. Bridge). To make a call or declaration of (a bid, number of tricks, etc.); to accept (a specified number of cards). See also to go nap on at nap n.9 2.
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1876 ‘Capt. Crawley’ Card Player's Man. 242 If..he declare five..he is said to go the Napoleon, whether he win or lose.
c1884 J. Glover Racing Life 38 Look here, you go nap—now hear that? nap!—on Royal Angus.
1932 Sunday Express 6 Mar. 13/2 Cries of ‘I'll stick’ and ‘I'll go four’ heard by police..led to..a summons for permitting gaming.
1964 N. Squire Bidding at Bridge ii. 25 The principle of the rebid of 1 NT..may cause you to go a trick too high.
1964 N. Squire Bidding at Bridge iii. 30 Four No-trumps over an opening bid of One No-trump means: ‘Go six if you are maximum!’
1998 J. Haylock Doubtful Partners 49 Perhaps you can go five hearts.
37. transitive. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). (a) To put up with, tolerate, stand. (b) To eat or drink. Frequently in I (you, etc.) could go: I (you, etc.) have an inclination to eat or drink (something).
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > [verb (transitive)]
brookc950
abiteOE
haveOE
afangOE
takec1175
notea1200
usec1300
spendc1380
consumec1400
partake1602
pree1680
discuss1751
tuck1784
to put down1795
to be (also go) at the ——1796
go1830
kill1833
to put away1839
down1852
to put over1880
to wrap (oneself) (a)round1880
shift1896
the world > action or operation > doing > do [verb (transitive)] > go the extent of doing
go1830
1830 N.-Y. Mirror 4 Dec. 174/1 ‘I shall be compelled to put you in the room with some of these gentlemen.’ ‘I can't go it, sir!’ replied the dandy.
1855 H. Greeley 1 Dec. in Greeley on Lincoln 89 He..tells everybody he is connected with the Tribune, but doesn't go its isms.
1929 F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 58 To go, to eat.
1944 F. I. Cooze Kiwis in Pacific 12 God, how I could go a nice, long cool beer.
1961 R. Gover One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding 181 I tell her I don' go that crap.
?1974 E. Chappell Rising Damp (2002) i. ii. 58/1 I could go a bag of chips.
2012 T. R. Roberts Reign of Beasts (Electronic ed.) He could really go a cup of Rhian's soup right about now.
** Denoting passive movement, change of state, etc.
38.
a. intransitive. With prepositional phrase or adverbial phrase as complement. To be carried, moved, impelled, or otherwise taken or transferred to a person, place, or thing; to be put, moved, or placed into or on to something. Frequently figurative.
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OE Lacnunga (2001) I. xiv. 8 Gesomnige ealle þas wyrta togædere þrim nihtan ær sumor on tun ga.
OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 265 Satisne est oððe estne satis? is ðær genoh la? on eallum þisum [sc. enclitics] and þyllecum gæð se sweg to ðam stæfgefege, þe him ætforan stent.
OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) ii. i. 56 On þissum monðe gæð seo sunne on þæt tacn þe is Aquarium genemned.
a1225 ( Rule St. Benet (Winteney) (1888) iv. 25 Wið þa wrangsehtan, ær sunne go to glade [OE Corpus Cambr. ær sunnan setlgange], freondscipe macian.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 206 Zuo longe geþ þet pot to þe wetere, þet hit comþ to-broke hom.
a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) xvii. 8 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 148 (MED) Mi crie in his sighte in eres yhode euen.
a1500 Walter of Henley's Husbandry (Sloane) (1890) 47 Yeff yor ploughe go a enche deppere..it shall fynde good grounde.
?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. b.iiv So shirle he sounded, in termes eloquent I trowe his tunes, went to the firmament.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xvi. sig. Z6v His old blood going to his hart.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. i. 103 Being ignorant to whom it goes, I writ at randome. View more context for this quotation
1662 Culpeper's Directory for Midwives: 2nd Pt. 108 A vapor malignant and venemous, sent up by the arteries, veins and nerves that hurt the actions of the parts it goes to.
1669 J. Blagrave Epitome Art of Husbandry 97 Let him look that the Knife go no deeper then the thickness of the bone.
?1764 J. Bush Hibernia Curiosa 131 He dies..and his flesh goes into a pasty. And thus ends the stag-hunt.
1788 Scots Mag. Sept. 438/2 The letter went to King George.
1856 U.S. Naut. Mag. & Naval Jrnl. 5 303 Very little of the advance money goes into the pocket of the sailor.
1875 H. B. Cornwall et al. tr. Plattner's Man. Anal. Blowpipe (rev. ed.) 456 A trifling amount of sulphide of copper in the plumbiferous substance goes into the alkaline slag.
1901 Sanitarian Feb. 125 The questions went to architects, builders, owners of tenement houses, merchants and bankers.
1921 Printers' Ink Monthly Apr. 13/2 A formal O.K. from the head of the credit department is necessary before any name finally goes on the list.
1985 J. Winterson Oranges are not Only Fruit 21 ‘How many slices do you want?’ ‘Two.’.. ‘What's going in them?’ ‘Potted beef.’
2006 Gardens Monthly Apr. 99/3 Most diseased material can go in a compost bin.
b. intransitive. Of a legal case, matter, etc.: to be taken or presented to or before a judge, tribunal, or other judicial authority for consideration. Cf. sense 34b.
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1627 R. Perrot Jacobs Vowe 52 It [sc. the suit] goes to a jury of laymen.
1695 R. Atkyns Enq. Jurisdict. Chancery 38 A Court of Equity is not to determine of matter of Fact, if it be denied, but it ought to go to a Jury to Try it.
1735 J. Ogilvie tr. R. Menteith Hist. Troubles Great Brit. iii. 96 The Affairs of this Nature in Scotland went before the Court of Exchequer.
1776 Coll. Most Remarkable & Interesting Trials II. 556/1 All that is to go before the Jury is, Quo animo, did this man take these bonds.
1838 Railway Mag. Sept. 225 On the 12th day of February, it [sc. the petition] went before the Committee on petitions, who decided on reporting to the House.
1899 Independent (N.Y.) 2 Nov. 2946/1 The matter went to the House of Lords, which heard evidence and reported against us.
1921 News Let. Friends of Irish Freedom 28 May 4 In every case of conviction for murder the case goes to the Judge Advocate-General in London.
1988 Amer. Motorcyclist May 45/1 If passed, the bill would go before the full Senate and then to the governor.
2011 T. Calarco et al. Places of Underground Railroad 67 Four years later the case went before the Supreme Court.
39. intransitive. With adverb, adverbial phrase, or prepositional phrase as complement.
a. To extend or reach to a certain point in space; to have a certain range or scope (literal and figurative).
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the world > space > extension in space > extend in space [verb (intransitive)] > reach (to)
reachOE
goOE
rax1597
the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > become immaterial [verb (intransitive)] > extend or reach (of immaterial things)
goOE
tend1604
OE Ælfric Hexameron (Hatton 115) 45 Þone rodor God gehet heofon. He is wundorlice healic and wid on ymbhwyrfte: se gæð under þas eorðan ealswa deop swa bufan.
c1200 ( Royal Charter: Edward the Confessor to St. Edmund's Abbey (Sawyer 1045) in M. J. Toswell & E. M. Tyler Stud. Eng. Lang. & Lit. (1996) iii. 50 Ne nan þere biscope..ne habbe næfre nan insting on þat mynster, ne swa wid swa þes tunes mærce gæd, þe þat mynster inne stent.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 17 Zeue boȝes þet guoþ out and byeþ y-bore of ane wyckede rote.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Josh. xix. 12 Þe terme of þe possession of þe sonys of ȝabulon..gooþ out [L. egreditur] to dabereth,..& geeþ out [L. egreditur] in to remmon.
c1392 Equatorie of Planetis 20 (MED) Deuyde thanne thilke lyne þat goth fro centre aryn vn to the cercle closere of the sygnes.
c1475 tr. Henri de Mondeville Surgery (Wellcome) f. 163 Boþe his crepanum, þat is to seie, persour, & his lenticuler muste haue sum additament þat mowe kepe hem þat þei go not to depe.
1578 T. Cooper Thesaurus (new ed.) Penetrauit penitus vulnus... The wounde went cleane through.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. v. sig. D6v His loue was not so superficial, as to go no further then the skin.
1610 T. Morton Encounter against M. Parsons i. viii. 85 The second part of this error went further.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. i. 43 No man's Knowledge here, can go beyond his Experience.
1707 J. Freind Acct. Earl of Peterborow's Conduct in Spain 149 I think it is hardly possible that Modesty could go a greater length.
1768 E. Wynne Eunomus III. iii. 61 The true antiquity of the Representations of the Commons is a point..entirely unfathomable. There is very little evidence at all about the matter, that goes very far back.
1864 J. H. Newman Apologia 182 My memory goes to this,—that I had asked a friend [etc.].
1885 E. Lynn Linton Autobiogr. Christopher Kirkland I. ii 43 His mathematics did not go very deep.
1892 Black & White 19 Nov. 580/1 The horns go to great lengths, but are not very thick at base.
1907 Jrnl. Instit. Bankers Feb. 82 My recommendations do not go very far.
1957 I. Murdoch Sandcastle i. 7 The casement windows were open as wide as they could go.
2002 Y. Dezalay & B. G. Garth Internationalization Palace Wars xii. 198 The story of success goes even further.
b. Of a supply, stock of provisions, or other resource: to last or hold out in use; to suffice for distribution. Also of money: to have purchasing power.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > be in use or called into use [verb (intransitive)] > last in use
go?1418
gain1724
to stand to ——?1730
?1418–19 in F. J. Furnivall Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 40 Ȝefe euere man and woman a Love and a galon of ale, als fer als it will go.
1572 L. Mascall tr. in Bk. Plant & Graffe Trees 90 One pound of our Hoppe dryed and ordered, will go as farre as two pounde of the best Hoppe that commeth from beyond seas.
1581 Compendious Exam. Certayne Ordinary Complaints ii. f. 33v As ye know xii. d. a day now will not go so far as viii. pence would afore time.
1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick i. xi. 76 Considering the cheapnesse.., so much money might go farther than a summe ten times greater could doe..now.
1672 J. Dryden Prol. Secret Love in Covent Garden Drollery 1 Now old Pantaloons, Will go as far, as formerly new Gowns.
1693 N. Tate tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires xv. 301 Whose Flesh, torn off by Lumps, the Rav'nous Foe In Morsells cut, to make it further go.
1758 R. Dossie Handmaid to Arts I. i. ix. 303 It is usual to add oil of turpentine to the oils of spike or lavender, in order to make them go further.
1777 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain I. ii. 11 There are not many parts of France where a man, who has but little money, can make it go further than in this town.
1840 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 1 iv. 410 Turnips, if consumed under sheds, go so much further.
1879 M. J. Guest Lect. Hist. Eng. xlii. 430 £4 a year..in those days would go as far as forty would do now.
1955 R. Macintosh & M. Ostlere Local Analgesia Head & Neck xiv. 99 It must be remembered, too, that in the elderly..a small dose of any sedative goes a long way.
1992 Economist 24 Oct. (Suppl.) 21/2 Local officials claim..that the money would go further if it came..in the form of tax relief for companies investing in their regions.
c. Originally and chiefly U.S. Of a crop, soil, etc.: to yield or produce an amount specified by the complement.
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1816 U. Brown Jrnl. 23 July in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1915) 10 369 None [of the fields] that I saw will go 15 Bushels to the Acre.
1868 14th Ann. Rep. Iowa State Agric. Soc. 1867 160 Corn.—On well-manured land..will go seventy-five bushels.
1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad vi. 57 An altar with facings of solid silver—at least they call it so, and I think myself it would go a couple of hundred to the ton (to speak after the fashion of the silver miners).
1904 Threshermen's Rev. Sept. 19/4 Warren Lester's crop went 64 bushels to the acre.
1992 D. Lessing Afr. Laughter 311 Once this soil was proud to go sixteen bags of maize to the acre.
40. intransitive. Of a value, quantity, price, etc.: to increase or decrease to a specified amount or level. Cf. to go down 1c at Phrasal verbs 1, to go up 10 at Phrasal verbs 1.
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OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.i) anno 1044 On ðisum gere wæs swyðe mycel hunger ofer eall Engla land & corn swa dyre swa nan man ær ne gemunde, swa þæt se sester hwætes eode to .lx. peninga & eac furðor.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1039 On þis ilcan geare eode se sæster hwætes to .lv. penega & eac furðor.
1840 Amer. Railroad Jrnl. 1 Sept. 129 The weight of the letter is no longer confined to the former limit (one ounce) but is allowed to go to sixteen ounces.
1883 Bee & Poultry Mag. Feb. 68/1 This week it [sc. the thermometer] went to ten degrees above zero.
1921 Amer. Rev. of Reviews Oct. 445/2 This would occur if all prices and wages went to pre-war levels.
1984 R. McGill No Place to Hide II. i. 39 But in 1919 cotton went to thirty-five cents.
2000 K. M. Dudley Debt & Dispossession ii. 34 When the interest rate goes to 13 and 14 [percent], that doubles your cost.
41.
a. intransitive. To amount to; to be equivalent to in value or quantity. Also with †intill (obsolete). Cf. sense 25b.
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the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > enumerate, reckon, or calculate [verb (intransitive)] > amount or be equal to
goeOE
risec1175
amount1399
mountc1400
to come to ——?a1425
draw1425
reach1431
to run to ——1528
surmount1551
to come unto ——1562
arise1594
to equivalize account1647
tell1671
sum1721
reckon1783
count1819
number1842
to add up1850
to add up to1853
to work out1867
total1880
to tot up1882
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. lxvii. 298 xv pund [app. error for yntsan] wætres gaþ to sestre.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 11308 Seofenn siþe sexe gan. Ȝiff þatt tu willt hemm sammnenn Vpp inn till fowwerrtiȝ & twa.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xxiv. f. 185 Furlonges (of whiche eight goe to a myle).
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Denarius, the Romaine penie: Of it were three sortes. One, the sixe parte of an ownce, and was more by the thirde parte then the Greeke Drachma. An other was the .7. parte of an ownce, and .84. went to a pound.
1672 E. Ashmole Inst. Order of Garter xxvi. 697 The King bought of him the said Earl of Eu, for 80000 Florens de Scuto, six of which went to a Pound English money.
1691 G. Miege New State Eng. ii. iv. 53 112 Pound Avoir du pois goes to a Hundred-weight.
1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea vi. 85 In europe twenty Angels make one Ounce, though here but sixteen go to an Ounce.
1766 Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 205 The manufacturers usually distinguish and denominate the fineness, by the number of skains which go to the pound.
1841 Fraser's Mag. 23 17 Sixteen ounces go to the avoirdupoise pound.
1889 F. C. Philips & C. J. Wills Fatal Phryne I. iii. 54 Twenty-five francs go to the pound.
1902 Board of Trade Jrnl. 1 May 201 4.54 [litres] go to the gallon.
1917 G. K. Chesterton Short Hist. Eng. xv. 202 They are coins of a certain value, twelve of which go to a shilling.
2003 S. Moosvi in C. Adle & I. Habib Hist. Civilizations Central Asia V. xvi. 456 By Akbar's later years, 40 dāms went to the rupee, and 9 rupees to the muhr.
†b. intransitive. To be allotted in proportion to something. Obsolete. rare.
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a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 58 One Horse plows 10 acres, and there goes 1 Man to 3 Horses.
42. intransitive. With prepositional phrase (esp. with to, towards), infinitive, or adverb as complement.
a. Of a resource: to be used for or put towards a particular purpose. Esp. of money: to be used to pay for or finance something; to be expended or spent on something.
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the mind > will > intention > intend [verb (transitive)] > intend or be intended for a purpose
goOE
framea1400
purpose?c1425
meanc1450
destinea1533
destinate1555
intend1600
calculate1639
OE Laws of Æðelred II (Corpus Cambr. 201) viii. vi. 264 Se cyng & his witan habbað gecoren & gecweden..þæt ðriddan [prob. read ðridda] dæl þare teoðunge, þe to circan gebyrge, ga to ciricbote.
c1330 Short Metrical Chron. (Auch.) 745 in PMLA (1931) 46 126/2 Þai schuld..fram þennes bring þe ston þat schuld to þe brigge go.
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xx. l. 75 (MED) And þat goþ mor for hus medicine, ich make þe good aȝenwarde.
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. l. 375 The fistulose & softer [stone] let hit goon To couer with.
1530 Bible (Tyndale) Exod. xxxviii. f. lxxii The .v. score hundred weyght of syluer, went to the castynge of the sokettes of the sanctuary and the sokettes of the vayle.
1553 T. Paynell tr. St. Augustine 12 Serm. xii. sig. L.viiv All suche thinges as shoulde be spent in such drunken superfluite, shalbe spente and go to the releife and refresshynge of the pore.
1604 F. T. Case is Altered sig. B3 His mony went for coales, glasses, brickes, and bellowes, and I know not how many necessaries.
1688 Bp. G. Burnet Three Lett. State of Italy 162 All the Revenue goes to the keeping up of the Magnificence of the Court.
1710 J. Toland Jacobitism Perjury & Popery 15 The Funds..and the Church-Lands will all go towards the Maintenance of Superstition and Tyranny.
1749 J. Pointer Oxoniensis Acad. 144 Part of which money went towards purchasing and demolishing the Houses in Cat-street.
1779 Parl. Reg. 1775–80 XII. 86 No part of that enormous sum went towards the debt.
1876 Judy 19 July 139/1 Where is the money going? we asked.
1879 M. J. Guest Lect. Hist. Eng. xxx. 299 Whatever money he got..it all went in books.
1891 Stateman's Year-bk. 510 In 1886 the Malagasy Government borrowed..a sum of 15 million francs, of which 10 million went to pay the indemnity to France.
1924 ‘E. Shaftesbury’ Mental Magnetism ix. 93 His next month's earnings go on the races, in the hope that he will recoup his losses.
1953 Billboard 24 Nov. 92/1 Record libraries, maintenance and new equipment are a few of the important items this money goes to support.
2004 J. M. Morris & A. L. Kross Hist. Dict. Utopianism 167 Any profits went into a ‘Fund for Humanity’.
b. To contribute to a result; to be among the required conditions for a particular purpose; to be one of the constituent elements of something.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > be (part of) [verb (transitive)] > be the or a component(s) of
graitha1300
form1377
makea1393
compone1398
constitute1552
go1559
to make up1589
mould1602
compounda1616
integrate1638
elementate1660
compose1665
represent1776
comprise1794
account1893
1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 121 The extracting and drawinge out of quint essence from honi, which goeth to ye making of potable gold.
1585 W. Bayley Disc. Mithridatium sig. C.6 The simples which goe to the compositions of these medicines.
1608 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 141 Here also you have both true businesse and many Quasi negotia, which go two and two to a businesse.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §903 The Medicines which goe to the Ointments are so strong, that [etc.].
1736 A. Pope Let. 30 Dec. in Dean Swift's Lit. Corr. (1741) 216 Something better and greater than high Birth and Quality must go towards acquiring those Demonstrations of public Esteem and Love.
1755 Man No. 26. 3 With a single glance we view an army, without attending to every separate soldier that goes to compose it.
1789 W. Cowper Let. 8 Aug. (1982) III. 308 There goes more to the composition of a volume than many Critics imagine.
1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. liii. 327 The bones which go to form the head and trunk.
1882 J. C. Morison Macaulay 1 With a good eye for the influences which go to the formation of character.
1890 Harper's Mag. May 961/2 Whole gardens of roses go to one drop of the attar.
1927 M. Sadleir A. Trollope ii. iii. 146 The small intrigues, jealousies and quid pro quos which went to compose the life of a prosperous English county.
1994 .net Dec. 41/1 Every one of the thousands of sites that go to make up the Internet network are in fact networks themselves.
2009 M. Lopez Little Black Schoolbk. (2011) II. iii. 101 Years of hard work usually go into producing what appears to be an overnight success.
43.
a. intransitive. With to (in early use also with †into, †among). To be awarded or allotted to a person, group, etc.; to pass or transfer to a person, group, etc.; to fall to a person as his or her lot, or otherwise come into his or her hands.In quot. c1275: to pass from one person to another.
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the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (intransitive)] > be obtained or acquired
goOE
havec1425
accrue1440
risea1500
OE Laws of Edgar (Corpus Cambr.) ii. ii. §2. 196 Ga ælc cyricsceat into þam ealdan mynstre be ælcom frigean heorþe.
lOE Grant of Land, Somerset (Sawyer 1819) in Proc. Somerset Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. Soc. (1953) 98 119 Þæt land æt Hegstealdcumbe Esne bisceop lende his mæge Wynsie on þa gerad þe ealle þa gerihta eodon into ðere stowe þe þæt land to gebyrað, þæt is Tantun.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 1033 Þus is þis eit-lond i-gon from honde to hond.
c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) ii. l. 94 (MED) But how the gayes han y-gon, God wotte þe sothe, Amonge myȝtffull men alle þese many ȝeris.
1527 Statutes Prohemium Iohannis Rastell (new ed.) f. xxiiijv The forfet of the iurrours shall go to the playntyf.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. iii. 122 Let the high Office and the Honor go To one that would doe thus. View more context for this quotation
1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses viii. 34 The Mony went to the Lawyers; Counsel won't tick, Sir.
1777 London Mag. June 320/1 Five eighths of a prize goes to the admiral.
1849 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 16 288/1 American ships..divide the freights which formerly went to the British..shipowner.
1869 T. Hughes Alfred the Great xiv. 168 A fine of 120 shillings (half to go to the king).
1878 Scribner's Monthly 15 638/2 The money I had saved went to the doctors.
1890 Field 10 May 687/1 The first and second prizes went to colts.
1916 Forest & Stream Sept. 1167/1 The Open Sailing Trophy went to George Denhart, of the Knickerbocker Canoe Club.
1979 A. McCowen Young Gemini 75 Sometimes I was given a part that should perhaps have gone to another actor.
2006 Dazed & Confused Dec. 106 A lipstick from which 100 per cent of the profits go to HIV organisations.
b. intransitive. With to (in early use also with †in, †on, †into). Of land, property, an estate, a title, etc.: to be inherited, passed in succession, or otherwise transferred to a specified recipient after a person's death. Also: to pass from (also †fro) the intended recipient to another.
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society > law > transfer of property > be transferred [verb (intransitive)]
goOE
pass1416
devolvea1575
settle1629
to go overa1645
cede1756
shift1844
OE Will of Wulfgeat (Sawyer 1534) in D. Whitelock Anglo-Saxon Wills (1930) 54 Ofer hire dæg ga þæt land eft in min cynn þa ðær nehste syn.
OE Settlement of Dispute between Abbot Ælfstan & Leofwine (Sawyer 1472) in N. P. Brooks & S. E. Kelly Charters of Christ Church Canterbury, Pt. 2 (2013) 1169 Æfter his dæge ga land & feoh into sancte Augustine [i.e. St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury].
a1225 ( Will of Abp. Ælfric (Sawyer 1488) in S. E. Kelly Charters of Abingdon Abbey, Pt. 2 (2001) 518 Ælfheages land Esnes suna ga a on his cyn.
1415 in E. F. Jacob & H. C. Johnson Reg. Henry Chichele (1937) II. 49 (MED) Y wil and ordeyne þat..forsaid swerd, bible, sauter, and copp..gon fro eir male to eir male.
1444 Will in Publ. Somerset Rec. Soc. (1903) 19 343 (MED) I wol that al my purchaset londes..go to the yssue of me one Alice my wyf geten.
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xii. f. xxiii Those landes holden in socage durynge the nonage, shall go to the next of the blode.
1569 J. Leslie Def. Honour Marie Quene of Scotl. ii. f. 115v The crowne by discente muste goe to the eldeste dawghter onlye.
1600 R. Chambers Palestina 133 For some fiue or sixe descents, both the high priesthood and the scepter should goe from the true heyre.
1672 T. Blount Animadversions Richard Baker's Chron. 13 Iames the 3d [Earle of Marlborough]..was slain at sea..and leaving no issue, the title went to his uncle William yet living.
1722 W. Forbes Inst. Law Scotl. I. iii. 338 The principal Messuage, or Country-dwelling-house go to the eldest heir Portioner.
1751 N. Salmon Short View Families Eng. Nobility xxiv. 86 In Default of both Male and Female Issue of the late Earl of Dalkeith, the Honour goes to Henry Earl of Delorain.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) VI. 120 Where an estate was devised specifically, and was afterwards sold by the testator by a contract executory, the estate went from the devisee.
1831 Society 1 34 It was proved it [sc. a large estate] should not have gone in the female line.
1879 M. J. Guest Lect. Hist. Eng. xliii. 432 The crown was then to go to the descendants of Henry's younger sister.
1908 Pearson's Mag. June 629/1 When Lord Fairfax died the title went to his brother Robert.
1999 in J. Yung Unbound Voices 92 After Grandmother died, all the property went to the sons.
c. intransitive. Chiefly with prepositional phrase as complement. Of a war, election, or other contest: to result or be decided in favour of or against a person or side.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > result [verb (intransitive)] > turn out > in a specific manner
gangOE
provec1300
goc1425
comea1527
succeed1533
sort1592
to come out1842
issue1855
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 4263 (MED) And þat day finaly with Lamedoun Þe tryvmphe had & þe felde y-goon, Saue þat, [etc.].
?1533 W. Tyndale Expos. Mathew (v) f. xvi What soeuer trouble arise, yet if we wilbe pacient and abyde, the ende will go on oure side.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 313 Menyng hymself neuer to had trusted that ye victorie would haue gon on suche a nyce & effeminate persones syde.
1597 F. Bacon Of Coulers Good & Euill f. 18v, in Ess. So in many Armies, if the matter should be tryed by duell betweene two Champions, the victory should go on one side, and yet if it be tried by the grosse, it would go of the other side.
1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. K3 On this side the verdict went.
1682 J. Dryden Medall Epist. Whigs sig. A3v When a Vote of the House of Commons goes on your side.
1712 J. Arbuthnot Lewis Baboon iv. vii. 32 Sometimes they were like to pull John over; then it went, all of a sudden again, on John's side.
1783 Ann. Reg. 1781 Hist. Europe 142/1 The elections went much in favour of the court.
1849 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 16 94/1 The war..went favourably to the Cavaliers.
1890 T. F. Tout in F. Y. Powell et al. Hist. Eng. III. 52 A general election went decidedly against him.
1930 H. Zink City Bosses in U.S. ii. vi. 156 The 1914 state election went to the Republicans, and the Wilson administration turned a cold shoulder.
1995 P. W. Wallace Politics of Conscience 71 The committee vote went against Smith twenty-six to one.
d. intransitive. With to. In sporting contexts. Of a game, point, etc.: to be won by a specified side or contestant. Also of a goal, try, etc.: to be scored by a specified side or player.
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1889 H. C. Palmer et al. Athletic Sports Amer., Eng. & Austral. 483 The second set went to the Renshaws by the same score as at first, 6–4.
1891 Field 19 Dec. 949/3 Both games going to Courtney.
1916 Princeton Alumni Weekly 4 Oct. 14/3 They halved the eighteenth in par and the match went to the Harvard man, 1 up.
1935 Times 7 Oct. /4 The first set went to Vines for the loss of one game.
1971 Black Belt Apr. 45 First point went to Al Dacascos as he foot swept and downed his opponent.
2010 Bristol Post (Nexis) 1 Mar. 12 The Steelmen proved the better side throughout and led 2-0 at the break. Both goals went to striker Gavin Kinsey.
44. To pass into a certain state or condition (often implying deterioration).
a. intransitive. With adjective or prepositional phrase as complement. To pass into or come to be in a specified state or condition; to become. Cf. come v. 31a.In Old English in to go on two: to divide or become divided into two.Later also with all as colloquial intensifier (see all adv. 1c).Often in phrases indicating mental decline, as to go out of one's mind, etc. to go crazy, to go loco, to go mad, to go off one's rocker, etc.: see the final element.See also to go bankrupt at bankrupt adj. 1, to go bust phr. at bust adj. Phrases, to go commando at commando n. Additions, to go into labour at labour n. 8a, to go low at low adj. and n.2 Phrases 5, to go missing at missing adj. and n.2 Phrases, to go native at native adj. Phrases, to go public at public adj. and n. Phrases, to go into remission at remission n. 5b, to go rogue at rogue n. and adj. Phrases 3, to go stale at stale adj.1 5a, to go viral at viral adj. Additions, etc.
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the world > time > change > change [verb (intransitive)] > pass into state, become
yworthOE
worthOE
goOE
becomec1175
come?a1200
waxc1220
charea1225
aworthc1275
makea1300
fallc1300
breedc1325
grow1340
strikea1375
yern1377
entera1382
turna1400
smitec1400
raxa1500
resolvea1500
to get into ——?1510
waxen1540
get1558
prove1560
proceed1578
befall1592
drop1654
evade1677
emerge1699
to turn out1740
to gain into1756
permute1864
slip1864
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > be or become mad [verb (intransitive)]
dwelec900
wedec900
awedeeOE
starea1275
braidc1275
ravea1325
to be out of mindc1325
woodc1374
to lose one's mindc1380
madc1384
forgetc1385
to go out of one's minda1398
to wede (out) of, but wita1400
foolc1400
to go (also fall, run) mada1450
forcene1490
ragec1515
waltc1540
maddle?c1550
to go (also run, set) a-madding (or on madding)1565
pass of wita1616
to have a gad-bee in one's brain1682
madden1704
to go (also be) off at the nail1721
distract1768
craze1818
to get a rat1890
to need (to have) one's head examined (also checked, read)1896
(to have) bats in the belfryc1901
to have straws in one's hair1923
to take the bats1927
to go haywire1929
to go mental1930
to go troppo1941
to come apart1954
OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 5 Þonne beoð ða stafas untodæledlice; forðan ðe nan stæf ne byð naht, gif he gæð on twa [c1225 Worcester geþ on twa].
OE Ælfric Homily (Vitell. C.v) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1967) I. 472 Seo Godcundnyss ne gæð næfre on twa, ne heo nateshwon ne underfehð nane lytlunge.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. lxi. 1210 He goþ out of his witte.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) ii. 460 Þe kyng herd þat telle þat his side ȝede lowe.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 598 Palamon..loue destreyneth so That wood out of his wit he gooth for wo.
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 263 She [sc. Envy] goth nygh wode Whan any chaunge happith gode.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 4276 (MED) Almost for wo he went out of his mynde.
?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. E.v If an asse go lame, men tary nat a weke But streyght to the smyth, for remedy they seke.
1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries i. 117 The siege of Leyden continued, & their victuals went very low.
1625 F. Bell tr. A. Daza Hist. Sister Ioane xiii. 114 And so he went blind, leaning vpon a staffe, & asking almes almost three moneths.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 173/1 Boniclatter [is] Cream gone thick.
1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper viii. 209 Let them [sc. apricots] go cold betwixt every Time.
1848 H. Hallam Suppl. Notes View Europe Middle Ages 70 Much land had gone out of cultivation in Gaul.
1875 Chem. News 28 May 233/1 The milk went putrid after thirty-six hours.
1884 R. Buchanan Foxglove Manor III. xxxiii. 122 Her cheeks went scarlet.
1891 Harper's Mag. Oct. 720/2 Before us lay a sea of fern, gone a russet brown from decay.
1919 ‘K. Mansfield’ Let. 17 Oct. (1993) III. 29 My eyes have gone all bloodshot.
1961 P. Marshall Soul clap Hands & Sing (1962) 23 Mr. Watford..felt the tendons which strung him together suddenly go limp.
2001 J. Boyle Galloway Street 20 His voice has gone quiet all of a sudden.
b. intransitive. With to. To pass into another state or condition; to turn or be transformed to something different.In quot. 1858: †to be reduced or diminished to. Obsolete.See also to go from hero to zero at hero n. Phrases 4, to go from zero to hero at zero n. and adj. Phrases 1.to go to seed: see seed n. 1a. to go from bad to worse: see worse adj. and n. Phrases 3c(a).
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > be transformed [verb (intransitive)]
wortheOE
awendOE
golOE
turnc1275
changec1300
runc1384
to run into ——c1384
fare1398
writhea1400
transmewc1400
returnc1475
transume1480
convert1549
transform1597
remove1655
transeate1657
transmute1675
make1895
metamorphose1904
shapeshift1927
metamorphize1943
metamorphosize1967
morph1992
lOE Homily (Corpus Cambr. 302) in B. Assmann Angelsächsische Homilien u. Heiligenleben (1889) 165 Þonne gelimpeð hyt æfter feawum dagum oððe feawum gearum, þæt se ylca lichama byð on byrgenne, and men witan, þæt he gæð wyrmum to mete.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 41v (MED) Þise haþ place if þe aposteme go [L. cedit] by way of resolucioun. When..it goþ [L. tendit] to maturacioun Heben Mesue commaundeþ þis emplastre.
1591 E. Spenser Teares of Muses in Complaints 596 Eftsoones such store of teares shee forth did powre, As if shee all to water would haue gone.
1659 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια sig. **6 Herbs, are to be gathered in the time of their flourishing; and beginning to goe to seed, which is for the most part in June & the beginning of July.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. iii. 49/2 The Fruit is green in growing, but being laid aside to mellow or rather rot..it goes to a kind of brown or hair colour.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery i. 13 If you boil pickled Pork too long it will go to a Jelly.
1754 J. Hill Useful Family Herbal 37 Betony is to be gathered when just going to flower.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. ii. v. 102 The Vohburg Family..was now gone to this one girl.
1889 A. E. Barr Feet of Clay xii. 236 The devil's corn all goes to bran.
1907 W. M. Paxton Poems 136 He swore the tokens of her love Should go to ashes in the stove.
1976 Black World Jan. 70/1 Kwame Nkrumah..went from hero to villain and back to hero again..in less than 10 years.
1990 W. L. O'Neill Better World 205 O. John Rogge..went from being the favorite attorney of Stalinists to becoming a friendly witness for government investigators.
2006 W. Rudell Raw Transformation 110 Add the rest of the ingredients, folding carefully so that the avocado does not go to mush.
c. intransitive. With to and noun. In various phrases with the sense ‘to perish; to be ruined or destroyed; to fall into a state of ruin or disrepair; to greatly deteriorate’.See also to go to the dogs at dog n.1 Phrases 7b, to go to lost at lost n., to go to naught at naught pron. 2b, to go to nought at nought pron. 2b, to go to pieces at piece n. Phrases 2c, to go to pigs and whistles at pig n.2 1b, to go to rack and ruin at rack n.9 1, seed n. Phrases 1b, to go to shit at shit n. and adj. Phrases 4c, to go to smash at smash n.1 2b, to go to wreck at wreck n.1 10c.
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OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) ii. Introd. 95 Þam he wiðbrægd, þy læs hit gelumpe, þæt hwæt unrihtes hine gehrine of his agenum geþohte & ungewitnysse, & he þonne sylfa æfter þon eall geeode in mycelre forspildnyssum [read mycele forspildnysse].]
c1330 Body & Soul (Auch.) (1889) 32 Al þi gode, when þou art ded; Al togider schal go to wrek.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 3106 (MED) Which is of most cost And lest is worth and goth to lost?
a1400 (a1325) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Trin. Cambr.) (1887) l. 8409 (MED) Þe heþene men ȝeoden al to schonde.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) Prol. l. 161 (MED) For ner writers, al wer out of mynde, Nat story only, but of nature and kynde The trewe knowyng schulde haue gon to wrak.
a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Bivv Our fained shields and wepons then they found, And..our discording voice they knew. We went to wreck, with nomber ouerlayd.
1599 J. Rainolds Let. 7 Aug. in T. Fowler Hist. Corpus Christi Coll. (1893) 349 In the mean season the College shall goe to rack and ruin.
a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI Serm. (1629) iv. 420 Betweene Jehu and Jeroboam, Salomon's seed went to wracke.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 131 The great Monarch's Death dissolves the Government. All goes to Ruin. View more context for this quotation
1789 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 45 A Towmont, Sirs, is gane to wreck!
1795 Sun 17 Sept. Her masts almost instantly rolled overboard, and she is now nearly gone to pieces.
1800 M. A. Hanway Andrew Stuart IV. vii. 123 Every thing of mine would go to rack and manger if I did not toil and moil.
1883 E. A. Hart Wilfred's Widow I. viii. 303 He was precious rich, you know; but it all went to smash.
1956 T. Ronan Moleskin Midas 106 This bitchin' country is going to the dogs.
1994 E. McNamee Resurrection Man (1998) xxiv. 221 The town's gone to shit so it has.
d. intransitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). With adjective complement. Of a constituency, politician, voter, etc.: to support or vote in favour of a specified political party.
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1839 Ohio Statesman 16 Oct. It was written on the Cleveland Whig paper last evening, that Portage and Geauga have gone Democratic.
1887 R. A. Proctor Americanisms in Knowledge Dec. 28 A State is said to go Democratic, or to go Republican, when it votes for one or the other cause after being for a time doubtful, or on the other side.
1889 Sat. Rev. 23 Nov. 589/2 Marlborough was by no means unlikely to have gone Jacobite after all.
1956 Life 2 Apr. 26/3 The farm region of Center Creek township and the village of Granada..went Republican by 2–1 in 1954.
2006 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 20 Jan. a6 Part of the reason the riding bucked the provincial trend and went Liberal was because of the significant concentration of immigrants.
e. intransitive. colloquial. With adjective or noun complement. To behave in a particular manner or adopt a particular attitude as indicated by the complement. Also (and earliest) in to go —— on a person, specifying the person affected (cf. on prep. 24f). Also with all as intensifier.
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1911 L. Stone Jonah ii. iv. 190 Yer niver 'ad no cause ter go crook on me, but I ain't complainin'.
1929 J. P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl (1930) vii. 102 I thought he was the one who had gone Hollywood. Pictures in the paper, guest of this and that. It's a wonder you notice me, I told him.
1943 ‘C. Dickson’ She died Lady xix. 170 Whatever else you do,..don't go psychoanalytic on me. I can't stand it.
1963 Sat. Evening Post 15 June 4/2 Don't go too ‘arty’ on us.
1966 New Yorker 1 Oct. 183 (advt.) Then I write my letter accusing them of going establishment.
1996 Minx Nov. 143/3 He went all James Dean on me.
2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 54 I hope she's not going all vegetarian on me.
45.
a. intransitive. With infinitive of a verb of demonstration, explanation, etc., or †to and noun of action (obsolete). To conduce to; to tend to or towards; to serve to. Also: †to lead to a particular outcome (obsolete).In quot. c1449: (of a text) to tend to support an opinion.See also to go to show at show v. Phrases 13a.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] > bring about as a consequence or entail
makeOE
haveOE
drawa1400
to draw inc1405
to leave behind1424
goc1449
to draw on1572
train1579
carry1581
beara1616
to lead toa1770
evolve1816
entail1829
mean1841
issue1842
subinduce1855
eOE Confessional Prayer (Vesp. D.xx) in Anglia (1889) 11 98 Ic agælde þæt to minre sawle frætwum belumpe & me to eces lifes earnunge gegan sceolde.]
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 52 (MED) The textis bifore alleggid..which the holders of the now seid first opinioun weenen grounden thilk same opinioun, goon not therto.
1565 N. Sanders Supper of Our Lord iii. f. 117v Doth not all this goe to proue, that [etc.].
1627 F. Rous Onely Remedy 102 Doe you thinke your petition can be pleasing or auailable with God, while it goes not to the end proposed by God?
1677 T. Otway Titus & Berenice Ep. Ded. sig. A2v To examine how much goes to the making up one of those dreadful things that resolve our dissolution.
1783 Ann. Reg. 1781 Hist. Europe 46/1 An attempt..which in its success, would have gone to the destruction of himself, his party, and friends.
1787 J. J. Powell Ess. Learning Powers p. xvi The evidence required, only goes to explain the precise state of that fact.
1804 W. Tennant Indian Recreat. I. 47 Fastidious ideas regarding rank..went nearly to the exclusion of this useful set of men from the society of..grandees.
1823 T. Jefferson Let. 4 Nov. in Mem., Corr., & Private Papers (1829) IV. 394 Those geographical schisms which go immediately to a separation.
1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. June 375/1 Two things go to render this statement..worthless.
1903 Public Health Sept. 691 Experiments and statistics..went to demonstrate that human and bovine tuberculosis are two different diseases.
1950 Ess. & Stud. 3 37 Everything in his poetry goes to suggest that it was created..by a largely spontaneous..process of self-generation.
2008 Guardian 14 June (Family section) 2/1 It just goes to prove..that teenagerhood isn't so very different to toddlerhood.
b. intransitive. With to. To lead towards or take on as a topic for inquiry or discussion; to address, concern. Frequently in judicial contexts.
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1787 Parl. Reg. 1781–96 XIX. 296 Mr. Fox. said, that he felt it necessary to bring into clearer points of view some allusions started during the course of the debate. These went to the subject of his negociation for a separate peace with Holland.
1801 C. Robinson Rep. High Court Admiralty 2 143 These observations go to the question of property.
1899 Rep. Appellate Div. Supreme Court N.Y. 44 214 The question went to Gemunder's credibility.
1914 Conditions Coal Mines Colorado: Hearings before Subcomm. of Comm. on Mines & Mining (U.S. House of Representatives, 63rd Congr., 2nd Sess.) I. 263 My question went to any guns bought by you, or any of your associate officers.
1984 P. Korrel Arthurian Triangle ii. 115 A great part of the discussion goes to the geographical description of Caerleon with due reference to its importance in religious matters.
2011 J. Rasenberger Brilliant Disaster (2012) xiv. 180 Nearly every question went to the issue of America's standing in the Cold War... Others went to Red China and Laos.
46. intransitive. Frequently with prepositional phrase or adverb as complement.
a. To be capable of passing into or through a particular place or space; to fit into or on to something. Also figurative. Frequently with modal verb expressing possibility, as may, will, etc., or in the simple present.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (transitive)] > be capable of passing
go1527
1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon ii. v. sig. A.iiv/2 The water of the herbe and rote of Enula campana dronke in the mornyng and at nyght at eche tyme as moch as wyll go in an eggys shelle [Ger. ein eyerschal vol].
1583 L. Mascall tr. Profitable Bk. Spottes & Staines 22 Ye shal take a hat full of wheate branne, and take so much water as wil go into the smal kettles.
1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 59 A Langrell..is a loose-shot, which goes in with a shackle.
1686 J. Smith Of Unequality Nat. Time 39 Let two plain and flat plates or boards..be joyned so close together that a Six-pence may but just go between.
1758 T. Hale et al. Compl. Body Husbandry (ed. 2) III. ix. xvii. 107 This hoop is to be of such a size that it cannot go through the hole.
1774 W. Hooper Rational Recreations IV. cvii. 288 In this [round tin box] place eight other boxes, which will go easily into each other.
1826 Lancet 23 Dec. 381/1 It is easier for a cable to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
1879 M. J. Guest Lect. Hist. Eng. xx. 198 All the good we can find about him will go into a very few words.
1881 A. Lang Library ii. 62 Elzevirs..go readily into the pocket.
1915 Machinery Sept. 55/1 The screw will not go through the tapped hole.
1963 Listener 16 May 832/3 Already..the sort of computer that only yesterday took up a whole room can be ‘microminiaturized’ so that it will go into a small suitcase.
1971 Pop. Mech. June 137 (caption) The last piece goes in without glue.
2005 J. Harwood Ghost Writer 4 I tried to force the drawer back in, but it wouldn't go.
b. To be properly or usually ordered or positioned in a specified manner; to be properly or usually put or kept in a particular place. Frequently in the simple present.
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1576 G. Ledoyen de la Pichonnaye Playne Treat. Frenche Tongue ii. sig. D. iijv The Adiectiue in our tongue goeth most often after the Substantiue.
1651 C. Hoole Latine Gram. iii. i. 198 Nouns Interrogatives and Indefinites do follow the rule of the Relative, which evermore go before the Verb.
1706 G. London & H. Wise Retir'd Gard'ner I. i. ii. 9 Trench it [sc. the dung] in; part with the first Spit, which goes in the Bottom, and the rest between the other Spits following.
1729 S. Switzer Introd. Gen. Syst. Hydrostaticks & Hydraulicks 97 A Brass Pillar..having a Ball at the Bottom of it, that goes into a Socket.
1819 Analectic Mag. July 30 In the noun na'tùre..the accent goes before the letter t.
1835 C. D'Andilli Villeroi ii. 26 Divinity..goes last, according to the order of precedence.
1891 Gardening Illustr. 7 Mar. 8/3 The Arums go on the top shelf, nearest the light.
1912 S. F. Crowell in H. P. Dunham Business of Insurance III. lxxxiii. 322 Other necessary implements should go inside the desk.
1990 D. D. Gilmore Manhood in Making ii. 55 The bread always went in the pot after you added the vinegar.
2002 Which? June 29/3 If there's nothing for it other than to get a shiny new appliance, the next question to ask is: ‘Where does the old one go?’
c. Of two or more things: to complement each other, harmonize. Also of a single thing: to harmonize with, be a suitable complement to, something else. Frequently in negative contexts. Cf. earlier to go together 2 at Phrasal verbs 1, to go with —— 4 at Phrasal verbs 2.
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree/be in harmony/be congruous [verb (intransitive)] > be compatible > match, go, or fit together
suit1589
besort1608
match1850
go1940
1940 J. M. Consigny & C. Palmer Gardening for fun in Calif. viii. 90 There's no use allotting Cutting Garden space to orange Marigolds or Purple Salvia, for example, if those colors just don't ‘go’ in your house.
1961 J. Joseph in Listener 6 Dec. 962/2 When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn't go.
1996 A. Alcalay Keys to Garden in Encycl. Mod. Jewish Culture (2004) 36 Because ‘Jew’ just doesn't go with ‘Arab’, it just doesn't go. It doesn't even sound right.
2004 L. Dean Becoming Strangers (2007) xl. 176 He saw her standing before him..in a shift dress and matching heels. ‘The shoes don't go,’ she said. ‘They look fine. You look good.’
47. intransitive. In the progressive. To approach a specified age, time, or point in time. Also with †in, †of, on, †upon. Originally and chiefly in going on ——: see to go on —— 2a at Phrasal verbs 2. Cf. sense 49c, to go on 7 at Phrasal verbs 1, to go upon —— 3 at Phrasal verbs 2.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adverb] > approaching an age
go1567
1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 139 For goinge on the .xvi. yere of her age, albeit her doinges were not voied of diuerse argumentes of bad disposicion.
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. iii. ii. 231 In all the time that I haue serued his Maiesty..which is now going vpon the three and twentieth yeare.
1700 W. Congreve Way of World v. i. 76 Till she was going in her fifteen.
1785 J. Trusler Mod. Times I. 47 She knew she was as much a woman as herself, and that she was going in eighteen.
1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner xvi. 217 He said he should like to be married, because he was a-going in four-and-twenty.
1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester 144 ‘How old is your daughter?’ ‘Oo 's goin' of eighteen.’
1888 G. Allen Devil's Die I. ix. 124 She would have given her age, if asked, as ‘going thirteen’.
1915 M. J. H. Skrine Billie's Mother xx. 302 I'm goin' in twenty-nine. But years is n't much; it's what you been through.
1985 J. Raban Foreign Land (1986) i. 12 She had been five, going six.
1996 F. McCourt Angela's Ashes 145 I'm seven, eight, nine going on ten and still Dad has no work.
48. Of a whole number.
a. intransitive. To divide another number a certain number of times, typically without remainder. Chiefly with in, into. Frequently in negative constructions.
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the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > perform arithmetic or algebraic operations [verb (intransitive)] > divide into
go1679
divide1938
1679 R. Chamberlain Arithmetick v. 58 I find the Divisor will go but 3 times in 976.
1766 J. Eadon Arithmetician's Guide 238 The divisor 5103 wou'd go three times in the dividend 16428.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 18 Five will go twelve times in sixty.
1856 Titan Mag. Dec. 498/1 Twelves in two—won't go!
1903 J. W. Hopkins & P. H. Underwood Elem. Arithm. in Theory & Pract. v. 55 39 does not go into 10.
1982 J. S. Coan Basic Apple BASIC 62 If we have a divisor that does not go without remainder, then we perform the next test.
1999 B. Brier & H. Hobbs Daily Life Anc. Egyptians 237 8 goes into 184 23 times.
2012 C. Beveridge Numeracy Tests for Dummies vii. 121 Divide the width of the big box by the width of the smaller box. If the number doesn't go exactly, you round down.
b. intransitive. With reference to subtraction: to be capable of being calculated without leaving a negative number. Only in (a number) from (another number) won't go.
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1866 tr. H. Heine in Fraser's Mag. Nov. 591/2 Subtraction..has a very practical rule: Four from three won't go, therefore I must borrow one.
1893 Monist 3 411 The primary school pupil who says that 8 from 5 ‘won't go’ is perfectly right from his point of view.
1904 H. Sharp Rural Schools in Central Provinces 74 The children must be shown that 5 from 2 won't go.
1978 P. Roth Professor of Desire 188 As we know from all our years of schooling, three from six is three, eight from one doesn't go, so we must borrow one from the preceding digit.
2013 T. R. Miles in T. R. Miles & E. Miles Dyslexia & Math. (ed. 2) i. 3 Five from one won't go.
IV. Special uses of particular forms of the verb.
* Special uses of the past participle. Cf. gone adj.
49. Preceding or following a statement of time or age. Frequently colloquial.
a.
(a) intransitive. Indicating how long ago some specified action, occurrence, event, etc., took place: ago. Also in gone by.
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a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 70 (MED) Hit is mony day go þat he was here.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17331 For godd had said gan siþen lang, ‘Mi-self es sett to wrek þe wrang’.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 14188 Was þou not but litil gone Almest þere wiþ iewes slone.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Squire's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 528 But sooth is seyd goon sithen many a day.
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Rom. x. f. xxix Christe so many hundred yeares gone was in prophecies promysed.
1595 W. Allen et al. Conf. Next Succession Crowne of Ingland i. 209 We haue in our ciuil law a very solemne forme of an oth which Iustinian the Emperor, aboue a thousand and 50. yeares gone, was wont to giue to al his gouernours of countries.
1603 R. Mavericke St. Peters Watch Word i. f. 5v Why then was it promised fifteene hundred yeares gone, that the worlde should shortly haue an ende?
1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. xiv. 254 The Indians, which a long time gone, were enriched with knowledge, if we beleeue ancient writers.
1820 W. Scott Monastery II. 128 Hughie Dunn, who left this Halidome some thirty-five years gone by.
1853 C. T. Brooks Songs of Flood & Field 29 The plash of paddles sounds once more, That died, years gone, along yon shore.
a1895 C. F. Alexander Poems (1896) 295 Poor soul! five years gone and a day, He went down in that treacherous bay.
1904 Outlook 3 Dec. 847/2 Here he went, squandering three priceless days on an outlawed tryst, vowed these ten years gone.
1986 E. Morgan Coll. Poems (1996) 491 I thought I saw my son who was lost overboard in a storm off Valparaiso—five years gone.
2004 T. Kishkan Man in Distant Field 242 The King and Queen came to Leenane, oh, it must be twenty years gone now.
(b) intransitive. Indicating how long ago some specified action, occurrence, event, etc., took place, as calculated in relation to another specified time. Cf. come v. 34a. Now rare (archaic and regional).
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1820 T. Carlyle Let. 1 Mar. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1970) I. 229 The Life of Montesquieu was delivered to Brewster Saturday gone-a-week.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. i. ii. 21 It is twenty years, gone Christmas-day since Lord Chesterfield [etc.].
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iii. i. 163 On Monday gone five weeks,..we saw Paris, beheading its King, stand silent.
1907 Rep. Special Comm. Investig. Govt. Hosp. for Insane II. 1376 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (59th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Rep. 7644, Pt. 2) IV The Chairman. How long have you been there? Mr. Goddard. Seven years this March gone.
1986 O. Senior Country of One Eye God in Summer Lightning & Other Stories 18 I never hear one living word from Jacko from December eighteen gone two year now him tief mi little coffee money and tek off.
b. intransitive. Indicating reference to times, years, days, etc., in the past. Frequently in days (also times, years, etc.) gone by: in the past. Cf. to go by 1 at Phrasal verbs 1.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > [verb (intransitive)] > is gone past
wendOE
wearc1420
go1791
1791 Lady's Mag. May 269/1 When England's warlike kings, unrival'd shone, And gain'd, in days gone by, a deathless fame.
1859 Harper's New Monthly Mag. June 130/2 In times gone we have made our readers parties to a session there.
1880 Churchman No. 5. 331 The old coinage of years gone by had become incognisable.
1892 H. R. Haggard Nada the Lily xiii. 107 Evil ghosts of men who lived in ages gone.
1909–10 Hist. Coll. Michigan Pioneer & Hist. Soc. 37 652 Their home is a model Christian household, a replication of the father's happy home in years gone by.
1975 T. Callender It so Happen 109 He use to be a wrestler and boxer in days gone by.
2010 Searcher Feb. 46/1 In times gone by, it was common practice to give a coin to your sweetheart as a token of love.
c. intransitive. Indicating that a person has passed a specified age. Cf. sense 47.
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1830 W. Clarke Three Courses & Dessert ii. 187 The sound o' them [sc. breaking waves], and solitude, begets sarious thoughts; and so they should, in one that's gone sixty.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vii. ii. 151 No hurry about Fritz's marriage: he is but eighteen gone.
1893 Temple Bar 97 216 A man ‘gone ninety years of age’.
1920 H. St. J. Cooper Sunny Ducrow lv. 412 ‘How old are you?’ ‘Just gone seventeen.’
1993 T. Parker May Lord in His Mercy be Kind to Belfast (1994) xv. 267 He died when he was a young man, only just gone forty-four.
d. intransitive. Indicating that the present time or time in question is (just) later than a specified time. Frequently (and earliest) in it is (also has) gone ——.In early use with implicit reference to clock strikes (see sense 11e).
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1838 A. M. Hall Lights & Shadows Irish Life I. 308 Whin I pulled them [sc. shirts] out of the tub this morning—it was gone six, for the days do be getting short.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. ii. xviii. 19 Don't you know church begins at two, and it's gone half after one a'ready?
1890 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 420 It was now gone midnight.
1900 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Feb. 499/2 When it was gone noon, Beaufoy bid the woodmen set the brush afire.
1921 T. Maynard Divine Adventure 64 It's gone half past twelve o'clock.
1947 D. Thomas Let. 30 June (1987) 647 It has just gone midday; I'm writing in my pyjamas, in a shuttered room.
1978 Cornish Guardian 27 Apr. 1/2 We spent from ten in the morning until gone three in the afternoon clearing the area.
2008 G. Brandreth Oscar Wilde & Game called Murder xiii. 168 Sickert..looked up at the station clock. ‘Gone five,’ he said.
50. intransitive. to be gone: to leave, depart (promptly or finally); to take oneself off. Cf. begone v.This use is a development of the perfect (regularly formed with auxiliary be), taken as applying to present action rather than completion.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)]
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
atwendOE
awayOE
to wend awayOE
awendOE
gangOE
rimeOE
flitc1175
to fare forthc1200
depart?c1225
part?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
biwitec1300
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to draw awayc1330
passc1330
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
voidc1374
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
waive1390
to pass out ofa1398
avoida1400
to pass awaya1400
to turn awaya1400
slakec1400
wagc1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
muck1429
packc1450
recede1450
roomc1450
to show (a person) the feetc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
devoidc1485
rebatea1500
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
to go one's ways1530
retire?1543
avaunt1549
to make out1558
trudge1562
vade?1570
fly1581
leave1593
wag1594
to get off1595
to go off1600
to put off1600
shog1600
troop1600
to forsake patch1602
exit1607
hence1614
to give offa1616
to take off1657
to move off1692
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
sheera1704
to go about one's business1749
mizzle1772
to move out1792
transit1797–1803
stump it1803
to run away1809
quit1811
to clear off1816
to clear out1816
nash1819
fuff1822
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
mosey1829
slope1830
to tail out1830
to walk one's chalks1835
to take away1838
shove1844
trot1847
fade1848
evacuate1849
shag1851
to get up and get1854
to pull out1855
to cut (the) cable(s)1859
to light out1859
to pick up1872
to sling one's Daniel or hook1873
to sling (also take) one's hook1874
smoke1893
screw1896
shoot1897
voetsak1897
to tootle off1902
to ship out1908
to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909
to push off1918
to bugger off1922
biff1923
to fuck off1929
to hit, split or take the breeze1931
to jack off1931
to piss offa1935
to do a mick1937
to take a walk1937
to head off1941
to take a hike1944
moulder1945
to chuff off1947
to get lost1947
to shoot through1947
skidoo1949
to sod off1950
peel1951
bug1952
split1954
poop1961
mugger1962
frig1965
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)]
to come awayeOE
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
awayOE
dealc1000
goOE
awendOE
rimeOE
to go one's wayOE
flitc1175
depart?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
to turn awaya1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
recede1450
roomc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
avaunt1549
trudge1562
vade?1570
discoast1571
leave1593
wag1594
to go off1600
troop1600
hence1614
to set on one's foota1616
to pull up one's stumps1647
quit1811
to clear out1816
slope1830
to walk one's chalks1835
shove1844
to roll out1850
to pull out1855
to light out1859
to take a run-out powder1909
to push off (also along)1923
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 2680 Loke thou be goone ageyn er day.
?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. B.iv Haue ado lyghtly and be gone.
c1525 J. Rastell Of Gentylnes & Nobylyte sig. Cij Why sirs than wyll ye depart & be gon.
1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. P4 Its safest we be gone, Lest [etc.].
1629 J. Gaule Practique Theories Christs Predict. 384 He thrust in among some, and faine would haue bin gone from others.
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler ii. 41 Come honest Viator, lets be gone . View more context for this quotation
1754 E. Lewis Ital. Husband iv. i. 39 Th' Hour approaches... I must be gone.
1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. i. 26 In the morning, La Motte rose at an early hour, impatient to be gone.
1811 W. R. Spencer Poems 19 My fierce steed maddens to be gone.
1871 J. N. Coleman tr. Poem of Job (ed. 2) 45 But as for you all, get you hence and be gone.
1910 H. H. Richardson Getting of Wisdom xiv. 134 She fidgeted from one leg to another while she waited. For Tilly was in no hurry to be gone.
1991 E. C. Haugaard Boy & Samurai vi. 38 I jumped up, eager to be gone.
** Special uses of the present participle.
51. Expressing a plan or intention that something will happen (usually soon), or making a prediction that something will happen, based on present events or circumstances.
a. In the progressive with a following to-infinitive. To be planning or intending to do or be something; to be likely or due to do or be something. Cf. gonna v.
(a) intransitive. With auxiliary be (usually in a simple present or past form; rarely in compound or non-finite forms: cf. quot. 1752). to be just going to: to be on the point of doing something; to be just about to.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adverb] > near in time > about to or on the point of
in point to (also of)c1330
at (the) point toc1432
at the point ofa1450
go1483
on the pop of1922
1483 tr. Adam of Eynsham Reuelation xviii Thys onhappy sowle..was goyng to be broughte [L. agitur] into helle for the synne and onleful lustys of her body.
?1585 E. Aggas tr. E. de L'Allouette Catholicke Apologie ii. f. 28 He did through the Popes dispensation betroth Lady Mary of Bourgondy..whom he was going to marrie when death..preuented him.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iii. 338 Here come my executioners... How now my hardy stout resolued mates, Are you now going to dispatch this deede. View more context for this quotation
1642 King Charles I His Majesties Speech to Gentlemen Yorke (single sheet) You see that my Magazin is going to be taken away from me..directly against my will.
1672 Lady M. Bertie Let. in Hist. MSS Comm.: 12th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Duke of Rutland (1889) 26 in Parl. Papers (C. 5889–II) XLIV. 393 I believe next news I heare will be that you are going to bee married.
1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode ii. i. 23 O my Dear, I was just going to pay my Devoirs to you.
1703 J. Locke Let. 23 July in Wks. (1812) X. 300 As I was going to say.
1752 C. Lennox Female Quixote i. xii. 74 Glanville..saw himself going to be discarded a second time.
1789 T. Twining tr. Aristotle Treat. Poetry 324 When a brother kills, or is going to kill.
1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 160 The Post-office is just going to shut.
1826 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 718 Lambs..to be sold..to those who are going to keep them.
1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner vi. 103 I aren't a-going to try and 'bate your price.
1890 Chambers's Jrnl. 14 June 370/2 It seems as if it were going to rain.
1904 Watchman 21 July 22/1 ‘Why didn't you shut the gate, Peter, and keep the hens in?’.. ‘I was just going to when I saw they were all out’.
1970 R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 71/1 A board of education meeting was going to be held that night to discuss the paper.
2008 R. Rummel-Hudson Schuyler's Monster (2009) vii. 90 He found out his wife was going to have a baby.
(b) intransitive. colloquial. With zero auxiliary. Often in interrogative contexts, or in representations of nonstandard or regional speech.
ΚΠ
1846 Knickerbocker July 32 What you goin' to lecture about?
1886 H. Rider Haggard Jess x. in Cornhill Mag. Aug. 113 So you have come to shoot buck with Om Coetzee; going to show us Transvaalers how to do it, eh?
1897 Let. to Secretary of Interior in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (55th Congr., 1st Sess. Doc. 53) 5 He says I going to make a few remarks this morning.
1911 McClure's Mag. May 96/2 I nod goin' to run weeth thees nice 'orse... I jus' goin' to stay at thees place.
1970 L. Rainwater Behind Ghetto Walls x. 249 You have another little baby and we going to kill it for you.
2003 G. Joseph Big Smoke xxv. 230 ‘It's Milk and Ditton. You going to buzz us in?’ A few seconds later the door buzzed and clicked.
b. intransitive. colloquial (chiefly Caribbean and West African). In the form go, with bare infinitive. To be planning to or intending to do something; (be) going to, ‘gonna’.
ΚΠ
1809 R. Elliot Jrnl. 2 July in L. Winer Dict. Eng./Creole Trinidad & Tobago (2009) 384/2 Why for I go follow you, if I no wish for be happy.
1848 Trinidad Spectator 8 Jan. 2 I no go sai no more.
1970 A. K. Armah Fragments vii. 200 A steward came to ask, ‘What time massa an' madam wan' wake up? I go come call am.’
1980 M. Thelwell Harder they Come (1988) xix. 383 You ha' strength fe box up woman. Why you no go box Rhygin?
1998 C. Okechukwu Predicament (2012) ix. 66 She heard a man boasting. ‘I go disorganize your dental formula.’
2005 H. Oyeyemi Icarus Girl 14 Wetin you be wanting, now? You no go want us to chop?

Phrases

P1. Phrases with pronouns as object.
a. With objective personal pronoun of the same person as the subject (but without reflexive meaning), as to go me, etc. archaic and regional in later use.
ΚΠ
eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xxviii. 191 Ðu slawa, ga ðe to æmetthylle, & giem hu hie doð, & leorna ðær wisdom.
OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 264 Com sum truð to þæs bisceopes hirede, se ne gymde nanes lenctenes fæstenes, ac eode him to kicenan..and began to etenne.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 27 Þe unclene gast þe geð him of þan sunfulle mon and geð him of þan stude to stude.
?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 109 God him ȝed an erþ here xxxti winter an somdel mo.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13191 Efter quen þe dai es gan, þai haf þair wijt and gas þam ham.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 535 Gais him vp at þe grece.
c1510 H. Watson tr. Gospelles of Dystaues sig. E.ii I lefte them there trussynge theyr bagages and wente me to my bedde.
1567 H. G. tr. G. Boccaccio Pleasaunt Disport Diuers Noble Personages iv. f. 17v He went him all alone forth of the citie.
1601 W. I. Whipping of Satyre sig. B6v I went me soft and faire, And with obeisance on my bended knee, Gan thus salute them.
1656 R. Flecknoe Diarium 34 Perceiving then my feet so sore, I'de o'th' Infantry be no more; But mounting me for Cavelry, Out I went me, horse to buy.
1767 B. Thornton tr. Plautus Braggard Captain iii. ii, in B. Thornton et al. tr. Plautus Comedies I. 176 If any one offend me, I go me home, and break off further parley.
1892 Cosmopolitan Oct. 727/2 So I may go me to mass, mamma, Along with my coal man lover.
1901 St. Nicholas Oct. 1118 Go thee to the door, child, and ask who stands without.
b. to go it.
(a)
(i) With complement expressing manner or speed of movement. colloquial (originally slang). To move or proceed at great speed; to engage vigorously or enthusiastically in some specified or implied activity. Frequently imperative, as an exhortation to move or act in this way. Cf. to go at it at Phrasal verbs 2. Now archaic and rare.See also to go it bald-headed at bald-headed adj. Phrases, to go it blind at blind adj. 1i, to go it strong at strong adv. Phrases 2e.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)]
twig1573
to go at ——1675
to go it1794
to come it1796
to lay it on thick1806
to blaze away1826
bushwhack1837
steam1842
split1844
rustle1882
to work like a demon1884
yank1888
go-at-it1904
to go somea1911
to put a jerk in it1919
to go (also do) one's (also a) dinger1923
to work (etc.) one's ass off1924
to go to town1933
to gie (or give) it laldy1974
the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > be incautious [verb (intransitive)]
to go it1840
to go it blind1840
1794 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor II. ii. 30 The moment I rushed by, one of them asked the other—‘Have you nabbed it?’ and was answered—‘No. Go it!’
1821 P. Egan Life in London ii. iii. 198 Logic, under the domino, had been ‘going it’ upon a few of his friends with much humour.
1840 F. Marryat Olla Podrida III. 249 That's going it rather strong.
1856 Titan Mag. Aug. 101/1 ‘Go it, governor; smash, dash, and crash!’
1870 London Society Christmas No. 77/1 Did you notice..how he was going it with that widow?
1911 G. B. Forbes Boys of Columbia High on Ice xv. 143 Faster, fellows!.. Go it, you tigers!
1963 M. Henry Stormy, Misty's Foal viii. 73 He felt Watch Eyes jolt, then stretch out swimming. ‘Go it! Go it!’ he shouted, and he stood up in his stirrups.
2011 M. Macilwee Liverpool Underworld ix. 120 To shouts of ‘Go it, go it’ and ‘Kill them, murder them’, Inspector Ross was savagely bludgeoned.
(ii) With complement indicating independence. To act or proceed by oneself or independently, without support or help. Originally and chiefly in to go it alone.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > be independent [verb (intransitive)]
to have one's own rulea1393
to be one's own man (also woman, person)a1425
to be one's own master?1510
to stand on one's own bottom1564
to sit loose1591
independa1657
to paddle one's own canoe1828
to go it alone1842
to run one's own show1892
to go one's (own) gait1922
1842 Spirit of Times 9 Apr. 67/1 George pulled..to the head of the next quarter stretch, where his jockey looking at what he had in ‘hand’, determined to ‘go it alone’.
1855 Knickerbocker Apr. 335 A ball through his frontal bone Laid him flat on his back on the hard-fought ground, And left Captain Davis to go it alone.
1868 J. M. Dalzell John Gray 48 If he goes into business, he goes it by himself.
1907 Forest & Stream 24 Aug. 291/1 I speak of the trips on which you go it without a guide.
1966 Rep. Comm. Inq. (Univ. of Oxf.) I. 28 The appropriate question must be posed: not ‘how far can any college go it alone?’ but ‘how far can the colleges..co-operate to form the policies of Oxford?’
2000 J. N. Wasserstrom in J. N. Wasserstrom et al. Human Rights & Revol. ii. 24 NATO did not seek and then wait for UN support for intervention,..but went it alone.
†(b) colloquial. imperative. Expressing dismissal, hostility, or desire to be rid of the person addressed; ‘go away’, ‘get lost’. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (intransitive)]
scud1602
go scrape!1611
to push off (also along)1740
to go it1797
to walk one's chalks1835
morris1838
scat1838
go 'long1859
to take a walk1881
shoot1897
skidoo1905
to beat it1906
to go to the dickens1910
to jump (or go (and) jump) in the lake1912
scram1928
to piss offa1935
to bugger off1937
to fuck off1940
go and have a roll1941
eff1945
to feck off?1945
to get lost1947
to sod off1950
bug1956
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
naff1959
frig1965
muck1974
to rack off1975
1797 M. Robinson Walsingham III. 306 So you had better be moving..take yourself off—go it—budge.
P2. Phrases with adverb or prepositional phrase as complement.
a. who goes there?: used esp. by a sentry or guard as a command for an approaching person to identify himself or herself. Also in who goes?
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a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iii. l. 751 And as he come a-yenward preuely, His Nece a-wook and asked who goth þere.
1578 J. Florio Firste Fruites f. 20v Ho, ho, who goeth there?
1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre i. 12 If the Round or any other Officer come to search the watch & Sentinels,..let him so soone as he doth perceiue them, demand with a lowd voice, Qui vala? Who goes there?
1611 B. Jonson Catiline iv. sig. L4 Stand, who goes there ? View more context for this quotation
1657 T. Jordan Walks Islington & Hogsdon iv. ii. sig. F4 I must be beholding to an enigmatical Constable, and his mischievous Watch; a man can no sooner come neer them, but who goes there?
1705 J. Dennis Gibraltar iv. 49 I found her sculking by the Back-door: Who goes there, said I? What's that to you, said she.
1794 W. Godwin Things as they Are III. i. 13 One of the company cried out, Who goes there? stand! I accosted them.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 94 ‘Stand, who goes?’ ‘Two from the palace.’
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iv. xx. 158 Who goes? Stand, or we fire.
1975 Jackie 15 Feb. 13/3 ‘Who goes there?’ he asked the misty hillside rather uncertainly.
1987 A. Maupin Significant Others 216 ‘Who goes?’ yelled the guard.
2009 D. Anderson Keep your Head Down vi. 91 Luster raises his rifle, but does not shoot. He shouts, ‘Halt. Who goes there?’.. Rochetti mutters, ‘Jesus fucking Christ. Halt who goes there?’
b. to go so (also as) far as (to do something): to proceed or commit oneself in action or speech to the extent specified (chiefly in negative contexts); to go to the extreme of.
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1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxcvii. f. cclxxviiiv/1 Sir quod Phylip Dartwell we haue no such charge to go so far as to bryng the good people of Gaunt in to yt poynt. for I ensure you they wyll nat so do.
?1585 E. Aggas tr. E. de L'Allouette Catholicke Apologie ii. f. 97v They went so farre as to set him at debate with the King his brother, and..to cause nature and bloud to liue in mistrust of it selfe.
1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iii. ix. 245 Philastrius goes so farre, as to condemne the opinion of their fixednesse for an heresie.
1683 T. B. tr. J. Claude Hist. Def. Reformation iii. iv. 93 See here precisely these two separations whereof I speak, the one that deprives one of the communion of the Sacraments, and the other which breaks of Christian Unity; one which is but to correct, and the other which goes as far as to pluck up.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Ancient Academy doubted of every thing; and went so far as to make it a Doubt, whether or no they ought to doubt.
1764 G. G. Beekman Let. 3 July in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 469 The floating Custom Houses Not only Destress us in Our Trade but go so far as Even to Empress Our Markit men and fishermen.
1808 M. Bott in Trial Col. Aaron Burr (new ed.) I. 426 I have gone as far as to declare, that colonel Burr ought to be hanged.
1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit i. xxxi. 275 Fanny (still wishing herself dead, and indeed now going so far as to add, buried) cried ‘Come in!’
1912 ‘Saki’ Chron. Clovis 243 She disapproved of many things; some people went as far as to say that she disapproved of most things.
1981 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 14 Oct. d2 Whether the Administration would go so far as to fight a more serious slump..by accelerating planned tax cuts or by speeding up expenditures is doubtful.
2002 J. Seaborg Journey's End 345 ‘So the family has nothing?’.. ‘I wouldn't go so far as to say that. This will hurt us though.’
†c. it, he, etc., goes for my money and variants: it, he, etc., is the thing or person I favour, choose, or endorse. Obsolete.
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1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. D.viv Amonge al the packe of them that haue cure, the Deuill shal go for my money.
1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cxcvii. 160 Banburie Cheese shall goe for my money, for therein (if it be of the best sort) you shall neither tast the renet nor salt.
1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. C4 He goes for my money.
1602 W. Burton 10 Serm. vi. 68 I hold of Paul, saith one: I am of Apollos, saith another: and Cephas shall go for my money, sayth a third.
1623 N. Rogers Strange Vineyard 15 Would all had this mans veine in preaching (saith a third:) He goes for my money; of all that euer I heard I like him best.
d. to go under the name (also title, etc.) of ——.
(a) To be called or known by a specified name or title. Also to go by the name (also title, etc.) of.
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the mind > language > naming > give a name to [verb (transitive)] > have or bear (name) > be known as
to go under the name of1566
to pass under (also by)a1643
1566 J. Rastell Third Bk. beware of M. Iewel f. 50 Vnderstanding by Monasteries, such places as commonly now in this Age, goe vnder that name.
1587 J. Bridges Def. Govt. Church of Eng. xv. 1307 Considering howe ordinarilye it hath gone by these names.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 193 The princes foole!..it may be I goe vnder that title because I am merry. View more context for this quotation
1687 Bp. G. Burnet Contin. Refl. Mr. Varillas's Hist. Heresies 12 That Book that goes by the name of P. Martyr's Common Places.
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 254 Wax, which..goes by the name of Terra Orellana.
1761 Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 464 There are four distinct species of birds, that go under the general name swallow.
1804 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry i. i. 1 He had gone by the name of Captain ever since.
1830 Sheffield Independent 27 Mar. The law which generally goes under the title of ‘Peel's Bill’.
a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. xxiii. 92 The monk who..sometimes went by the alias of Johnson.
1933 W. W. Robbins & F. Ramaley Plants useful to Man 245 The plant spread throughout the southern part of the United States where naturalized forms have long gone by the name of ‘Indian peach’.
1952 San Antonio (Texas) Light 12 May The Audiophiles..is a little group of San Antonio music lovers who..used to go under the name of the High Fidelity Music Reproduction club.
2008 E. Segalstad & J. Hunter 27s 34 A character who went by the moniker One-Eyed Clancy owed Dyke money for heroin.
(b) Of a literary composition: to be attributed to.
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1568 E. Dering Sparing Restraint ii. 25 This booke which for his Masse sake M. Harding doth so much defende. It goeth vnder the name of Clement.
1630 W. Travers Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Angl. iii. 28 The Liturgies that go vnder the name of Basil.
1710 tr. P. Bayle Hist. & Crit. Dict. I. 686 I have heard say, that the Translation of Father Narni's Sermons, that went under the Name of Father du Bosc, is a Work of d'Ablancourt.
1879 M. J. Guest Lect. Hist. Eng. xxxv. 356 Shakespeare did not write that play, though it generally goes under his name.
1980 J. Needham Sci. & Civilization in China V. iv. 391 The great days of Arabic alchemy are reached with that flood of books and tractates which go under the name of ‘Jābir ibn Hayyān’.
2011 G. Cambiano in A. Lianeri Western Time Anc. Hist. iii. 77 Another basic corpus of writings went under the name of Hermes Trismegistus.
†e. if you go to that and variants: (used to qualify a statement) since you go so far as to say that; when it comes to that. Chiefly colloquial. Obsolete.
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1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 220 Nay, if you goe to that, I might say rather [etc.].
1631 J. Shirley Loves Crueltie (1640) ii. ii. sig. Dv En. Meere trifles. Hi. And you go to that, Lady, that which you part withall for All these pleasures, is but a trifle.
1655 R. Davenport King Iohn & Matilda iii. sig. E3 La. Thou appear'st to me as ugly as a Toad. Bra. A Toad! Boy. I, and a Frog to if you go to that.
1695 W. Congreve Love for Love ii. i. 29 Well, if you go to that, where did you find this Bodkin?
1732 R. Gwinnett et al. Country Squire in Pylades & Corinna II. iii. iv. 70 Nay we are better than any of them, if we go to that.
1744 W. Warburton Remarks Occas. Refl. xxii. 114 He tells me, tho' Scripture said nothing, it pointed to them. And so did I, if he goes to that.
1828 Christian Examiner, & Church of Ireland Mag. Aug. 117 I'm a vile worm,..and for that matther so is yourself, an all God's Christhen crathurs, if one goes to that.
a1894 R. L. Stevenson St. Ives (1898) xv. 162 ‘And you would have fired at me, you bloody-minded man?’ I cried. ‘If you go to that, you seemed mighty reckless with your stick,’ said Dudgeon.
f. colloquial. what is gone of ——? and variants: ‘what has become of —— ?’, (also) ‘what is the matter with —— ?’. Also used indirectly. Cf. to come of —— at come v. Phrasal verbs 2. Now regional and rare.
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1649 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (new ed.) iii. v. f. 343v What is gone with mens understanding and sense?
1771 Mrs. J. Harris in Lett. 1st Earl Malmesbury (1870) I. 235 He started and asked what was gone of all the company, and begged to be conducted to them.
1797 Edinb. Mag. Jan. 56/2 I must make haste home and feed him, afore it get dark; he'll wonder what's gone with me.
1803 S. Pegge Anecd. Eng. Lang. 239 The London expression of enquiry after any body is ‘What is gone with such a one?’
1814 C. Lamb Let. 13 Aug. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1978) III. 102 What is gone of..Morgan, and his gos-lettuces?
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. vi. 57 What's gone with that boy?
1875 G. J. Whyte-Melville Katerfelto (1876) xxx. 339 Nobody in Porlock ever knew what was gone with him.
1930 A. Ransome Swallows & Amazons xxiii. 242 ‘What was gone with you?’ asked Mrs Dixon, bustling round and pouring the milk out of a great bowl.
g. what's going on?: ‘what is happening?’, ‘what is the state of affairs?’. Also used indirectly or as a greeting.
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1689 R. Baxter Eng. Nonconformity lvi. 212 Our doleful divisions,..and the prospect of what is going on, do affright us from approving.
1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals iv. i. 62 Abs. So what's going on now!..Acres. A challenge!
1815 Ld. Byron Let. 2 Feb. (1975) IV. 263 Tell me what is going on in the way of intriguery.
1893 J. Ashby-Sterry Naughty Girl vii. 67 I'll just take a turn down to the club and see what's going on.
1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. vi. 136 ‘What's going on?’ ‘Oh, just another boring family potin. Sebastian got tight again.’
1998 R. L. Fleming She's All That (film script, revised) (O.E.D. Archive) 38 Zack Hey, Laney, what's going on?.. Hey, 'Tard.
2013 E. Huang Fresh off Boat ix. 139 The waiters and managers need to tell you what's going on in the dining room.
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(a) colloquial. how goes it?: used to ask how something is proceeding, or to ask a person how he or she is getting on. Also used as a greeting: ‘how are you doing?’, ‘how's life?’. Cf. how's it going? at Phrases 2h(b), sense 4a.
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a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. Hv How goes it sirs.
1611 H. Barrow Platform sig. A2v And how goes it with religion?
1654 Trag. Alphonsus iv. sig. G2v How goes it with the Palsgrave of the Rhein?
1764 T. Reid Let. 14 Nov. in Wks. (1846) I. 40/2 After I have given you so full an account of my own state, spiritual and temporal, how goes it with you?
1786 tr. F. de Tott Mem. I. ii. 24 How goes it, my friend, how goes it?
1841 Fraser's Mag. 23 16 ‘How goes it, Joe?’ ‘Pretty well, as times go.’
1898 J. Conrad Tales of Unrest 138 How goes it, you old image?
1927 H. T. Lowe-Porter tr. T. Mann Magic Mountain (1999) vii. 614 ‘How goes it, my son?’ ‘Topping, thanks.’
1952 K. Burke Let. 2 Aug. in Sel. Corr. K. Burke & M. Cowley (1988) 306 How goes it with your ailment?
2009 D. Eggers in New Yorker 24 Aug. 62/1 This was one of Gary's typical questions: Another day, huh? How goes it? No play for the playa, right?
(b) colloquial. how's it going?: used to ask a person how he or she is getting on, or to enquire whether a particular project or event is proceeding well. Also used as a greeting: ‘how are you doing?’, ‘how's life?’. Cf. how goes it? at Phrases 2h(a), sense 4a.
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1867 Mrs. H. Wood Orville Coll. II. iii. 54 ‘Well, how's it going?’ demanded Brown... ‘How should it be going?’ retorted Leek.
1892 Harper's Round Table 1 Nov. 14/1 ‘How's it going, Dave?’ said he... ‘All serene, Dannie,’ was the reply.
1944 R. D. Boyer in P. Gammond Duke Ellington (1958) i. 28 The other card players looked over and..asked, ‘How's it going, Pops?’
1978 Texas Monthly Apr. 6/1 Hey, how's it goin'?
2013 L. Miller Parallel i. 9 ‘Hey, honey! How's it going? Having fun?’ ‘Yep!’ I enthuse, trying to sound upbeat.
i. colloquial. where do we go from here? and variants: ‘how do we proceed?’, ‘what should happen next?’ (often expressing perplexity or indicating that something will be difficult to equal or surpass).
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > expressions of doubt [phrase]
don't (you) be too (also so) sure1731
I don't rightly know1741
not necessarily1886
where do we go from here?1917
your guess is as good as mine1939
1917 A. E. Thomas & C. Hamilton Big Idea ii. 58 Elaine: While I'm writing my comedy scene..you can go on with this act... Do you see? Dick: Yes, I see perfectly; but then—where do we go from there?
1922 P. G. Wodehouse Clicking of Cuthbert ix. 222 ‘I've had three ginger ales,’ observed the boy. ‘Where do we go from here?’
1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 24 Oct. 182 (heading) Millions of women..wear what they like when they like. So, now where do we go?
1997 in P. Ribbins Leaders & Leadership in School, College, & University 35 This has been a great success, so where do we go next, there's always that question to ask.
2009 P. Hughes-Barlow & C. Chapman Beyond Celtic Cross 111 So where do we go now? First we need to look at those reversed cards again.
j. colloquial (originally and chiefly South African) go well: used as an expression of farewell or goodwill to a person who is parting. Cf. stay well at stay v.1 Additions, walk good at walk v. Phrases 15. [After similar expressions in several Bantu languages of South Africa; compare e.g. Zulu hamba kahle, (to a group) hambani kahle ( < imperative forms of -hamba to go, travel + kahle well) and also the similarly-formed Southern Sotho tsamaya hantle, Northern Sotho tsamaya pila.]
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous expressions [interjection] > expressions of farewell > and good luck
walk good1929
go well1948
1948 A. Paton Cry, Beloved Country i. ii. 14 That was good of you. Go well, small one.
1951 P. H. Abrahams Wild Conquest ii. ii. 298 ‘Where do you journey?’ ‘To the land of the Basuto.’ ‘Go well, my friend.’ ‘Go well, white man.’
1961 H. Stanton Go well stay Well 5 ‘Go well.’ ‘Stay well.’ Sesuto: ‘Tsamea pila.’ ‘Sala pila.’ These words constitute the customary expressions of good-will when African friends are parting. The friend who stays says to the friend who goes, ‘Go well,’ conveying the thought, ‘May God protect you on your journey.’
2004 L. Desoto Blade of Grass xxxvii. 222 Bodule tucks his hat under his arm and cups both hands to receive his wages. ‘Usale kahle, Missus. Stay well.’ ‘Go well, Bodule.’
k. Originally and chiefly U.S. (originally in African-American usage). to have (got) it going on: to be successful or talented; to be characterized as attractive, stylish, exciting, etc.
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1987 T. Smith et al. title of song I got it goin' on.
1992 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Jrnl. 2 Aug. a12/2 Those sneakers meant so much in the sense that it's their way of saying, ‘This is me. I'm someone. I've got it going on.’
2003 Wall St. Jrnl. (Nexis) 16 Apr. d12/5 Italian cars have got it going on and it's plain that with the Giulietta, Alfa's gone the extra kilometer.
2014 Sun (Nexis) 3 Aug. 20 He's engaging, full of beans and, although he turned 41 in February, trust us, he's still got it going on.
l. colloquial (originally U.S.). to go there: to talk about something, approach a subject. Originally and frequently in don't (even) go there!: (as a warning, sometimes aggressively) don't talk about that, stay off that subject.
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1993 Oprah Winfrey Show (transcript of TV programme) 7 May in global.factiva.com (O.E.D. archive) Damien: The fact of the matter is, I—see, I don't even want to go here. Winfrey: OK. Don't go there then. Damien: But—but the qu... Winfrey: Don't go there. OK.
1995 Sentinel (Los Angeles) (Electronic ed.) 21 Dec. b6 ‘Othello’ is about an obsessively jealous black man who kills his white wife and a friend of hers because he thinks she is having an affair, (Don't even go there.).
1996 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 28 Dec. d8 Don't go there. This expression has any number of offshoots, among them ‘don't even go there’, ‘you don't even want to think of going there’ and ‘I'm not going there’.
2009 P. Hanrahan Life after Favre 164 You know, it was a long time ago. Let's not go there now, because it would be a lot of B.S.
2012 M. Parker Someone Bad & Something Blue viii. 52 ‘I'm the one..who is still scouring these dirty streets looking for the person that killed Bella's father.’ ‘Don't you go there. Don't you dare go there!’
m. In various idiomatic expressions (besides those mentioned under the senses to which they belong): to go (off) with a bang: see bang n.1 Additions; to go by the board: see board n. 12b; to go by the ears: see ear n.1 Phrases 1c(d); to go off the deep end: see deep end n. Phrases; to go off the handle: see handle n.1 Phrases 3c; to go over a person's head: see head n.1 Phrases 1k(b)(ii); to go to a person's head: see head n.1 Phrases 4f; to go through hoops: see hoop n.1 1c; to go like hot cakes: see hot cake n. 2; to go (all) round the houses: see house n.1 and int. Phrases 1j; to go to loggerheads: see loggerhead n. 8; to go through the mill: see mill n.1 Phrases 7; to go on record: see record n.1 and adj. Phrases 6b; to go through the roof: see roof n. Phrases 5; to go to (one's) rest: see rest n.1 Phrases 1; to go without saying: see saying n.1 Phrases 5; to go to sleep: see sleep n. 1b; to go off into the sunset: see sunset n. 1b; to go to town: see town n. Phrases 2; to go to the wall: see wall n.1 Phrases 1; to go out of one's way: see way n.1 and int.1 Phrases 2h(a)(vi); to go out (of) the window: see window n. 6a, etc.
P3. Phrases without complement.
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(a) as (also so) far as it goes and variants: (used to qualify the applicability of a statement, or to suggest the limited nature of something) to a particular extent or limit; within the limit of what is referred to.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [adverb] > to a limited extent
as (also so) far as it goes1533
a kind of?1565
not to say1590
in his (also her, etc.) way1700
for what it's worth1830
kinda1834
1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere viii. p. cccclxxxii. The tokens bothe twayne were sure & perfayt for so farre as they go.
1640 D. Featley et al. Θρηνοικος (new ed.) 520 The thing be good as farre as it goes.
1690 J. Norris Christian Blessedness 60 This Definition tho it be true as far as it goes, yet..it runs in such general Terms, that a Man is little the wiser for it.
1737 T. Morgan Moral Philosopher 218 Your Account of Calvinism is very just so far as it goes.
1789 T. Twining tr. Aristotle Treat. Poetry 8 The resemblance is, indeed, real, as far as it goes.
1820 Examiner No. 651. 632/1 He has a real notion of pleasantry, as far as mere pleasantry goes.
1885 Law Times 79 130/1 The poor law system..is, so far as it goes, Socialism pure and simple.
1905 L. Woolf Let. 27 Jan. (1990) 76 The people are, as a rule, the men at any rate, as far as their bodies go, extraordinarily beautiful.
1970 G. S. Kirk Myth (1975) iii. 84 The debate between them, so far as it went, was fruitful.
2001 B. Broady In this Block there lives Slag 138 Even the Bradford dives of my youth had been choosier, at least so far as dress codes went.
2006 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 4 Dec. a6 Hamilton's story was good as far as it went, but it didn't go far enough.
(b) as things, people, etc., go: judging by the common or typical standard of the things or people specified.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > in general [phrase] > usual or general standard
as things go1575
par for the course1947
1575 T. Churchyard 1st Pt. Chippes 19 Some friends I found, as friends do go.
1639 J. Shirley Ball iv. sig. H Col. And are you sure hee's honest? Lac. As Lords goe now adayes that are in fashion.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 321 They call it fortify'd, and so it is, as Fortifications go there.
1787 A. W. Costigan Sketches Society & Manners Portugal I. xvi. 308 He is a man..of a very good provincial fortune, as fortunes go in this country.
1841 Fraser's Mag. 23 16 ‘How goes it, Joe?’ ‘Pretty well, as times go.’
1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxii. 314 It was a good enough luncheon, as hotels go.
1879 G. R. Sims Dagonet Ballads 32 A decent chap was her father, as folks in alleys go.
1901 W. G. van T. Sutphen Cardinal's Rose xiv. 122 As situations go, I ought to be well content.
1922 Vogue 1 Apr. 106/1 The general tone is comedy, and very good comedy as comedy goes.
1986 H. W. Morgan Amer. Art Student in Paris 214 His financial situation marked him as a success, as artists went.
1997 Big Issue 9 June 32/3 As birds go, pigeons must rank at the scuzzy, scrag-end of the feathered hierarchy.
b. Nautical. as she goes: used as a command to maintain a direct course. Chiefly in steady as she goes at steady adv. b. Also as you go.
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1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 28 Steddy, that is, keep the ship from going in and out, but just upon the point that you are to steere, and as you goe; and such like.
1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) i. xvi. 76 To keep her upon the same Point, they use, Steddy, or as you go.
1793 Bee 28 Aug. 326 Old Binacle the quarter master, kept conning us all the way, with ‘steady as you go boys’.
1839 J. N. Reynolds in Knickerbocker May 385 Keep her off two points! Steady! steady, as she goes!
1898 Pall Mall Mag. Jan. 122 ‘Keep her [sc. the ship] as she goes’, I said. ‘As she goes, sir,’ the man at the wheel..said.
1918 W. J. Henderson in R. Stevens et al. Battle for Pacific viii. 121 ‘Keep her as she goes,’ said Captain Travis.
1999 G. Hackman & D. Lenihan Wake of Perdido Star vii. 112 He yelled to the helmsman, ‘Steady as she goes, lad.’
c. going, going, gone! (and variants): used by auctioneers as an announcement to indicate that bidding on an item is about to close (going) or has closed (gone). Also in more general use.
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1752 D. Garrick in S. Foote Taste Prol. Farewell to Arts—they're going, going, going; The fatal Hammer's in your Hand, oh Town!
1767 G. Caswall Trifler 10 Observe the Nose, Sir—mark, my Lord, each Eye—For Fifty—going—gone—I give you joy.
1769 Oxf. Mag. 3 Suppl. 263/2 A going for a groat—once—twice—A going; cheaper than neck-beef. Going—Gone.
1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal iv. i. 44 I'll knock 'em down at forty pounds—Going—going—gone.
1814 T. Moore Sale of Tools ii Once, twice, going, going, thrice, gone!—it is yours, sir.
1862 Temple Bar 6 414 Going at four pounds fifteen, if there is no advance.
1905 Cent. Mag. Sept. 680/2 You couldn't hang on any longer, your knees slipped—going, going—gone!
1986 L. Hanks Savage Surrender xi. 227 ‘Going once... going twice...’ ‘Twenty dollars,’ a new voice thundered.
2002 Oldie June 36/2 Fraser's doesn't encourage the rattling pitter-patter of ‘that's 150, 155 manatthebackwiththebrownhat, 170 totheladyinred, going, going, gone.’
d. colloquial (originally U.S.). from the word go: from the start, from the very beginning.In quot. 1820 in literal use (see sense 28b).
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > at the beginning [phrase] > from the beginning
from first to last1536
ab origine1537
ab ovoa1586
ab initio1600
from the word go1834
from the jump1848
from the get-go1960
from (also since) day dot1964
1820 Louisville (Kentucky) Public Advertiser 26 Aug. The lash and the spur were applied to him from the word, go!]
1834 D. Crockett Narr. Life 59 I was plaguy well pleased with her from the word go.
1866 Congr. Globe 61/2 From the very word ‘go’ I have been a conservative.
1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. I. v. 211 I lost him from the word Go.
1963 Times 24 Jan. 6/6 It was wrong from the word ‘go’ to put in a limitation such as 60.
2002 C. Williams Sugar & Slate 143 The older guy..was edgy and irritable with us from the word go.
e. Originally and chiefly U.S. as goes ——, so goes —— and variants: —— will vote, act, fare, etc., in the same way as ——.
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1836 Daily Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 14 Sept. The N. York Express says—‘As goes Ohio, so goes the West’.
1890 Manifesto Aug. 175/2 As goes the West, so goes America; and as America goes, so goes the future world.
1917 Brick & Clay Rec. 2 Jan. 33/1 As go the other things in life, so goes building.
1992 Time 7 Dec. 37/1 It would be no exaggeration to say that as Yeltsin goes, so goes the nation.
2012 M. von N. whitman Martian's Daughter 257 As went the company's fortunes, so went the reputation of its chairman.
f. to do something as one goes: to take action or make decisions as one progresses, or as events proceed; to act in the moment, rather than with prior planning. Also to do something as one goes along. Cf. to make (something) up as one goes along at make v.1 Phrasal verbs 1.
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1863 Law Mag. & Law Rev. 15 467 It is better to let the judges make the law as they go along, than to have the lawgiver make it beforehand.
1881 Cent. Mag. Nov. 136/2 I will state the evidence, and if there is any loop-hole, I will trouble Mr. Smith to suggest it as I go along.
1901 E. Nesbit Wouldbegoods 138 ‘Why not have it an Arctic expedition?’ said Dicky... Alice said, ‘We can decide as we go. Let's start anyway.’
1999 A. Castle Walking River Rhine Trail 21 If it appears there may be problems later in securing accommodation, book it up as you go along.
2011 K. M. Weiland Outlining your Novel v. 135 I use lines and connect my scenes/characters as I go.
g. British colloquial. if it's going and variants: if it is available or being offered; used as a request for, or as an affirmative response to an offer of, something (often a food item or drink). Cf. sense 16.
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1893 ‘J. S. Winter’ Soul of Bishop I. viii. 187 ‘Will you have anything now?’... ‘I'll have a cup of tea if it's going,’ said the Bishop cheerily.
1901 Public School Mag/ Oct. 284/1 ‘Butter?’ cried No 2 derisively. ‘Thanks, if there's any going up there.’
1938 E. Ambler Cause for Alarm viii. 127 I'll have that other drink if it's going.
1980 G. Lyall Secret Servant xv. 101 ‘Do you want a cuppa as well?’ ‘If it's going,’ Maxim said automatically.
2001 J. McGown Scene of Crime 48 I wouldn't mind some supper if there's any going.
h. colloquial (originally U.S.). to have (someone) going: to fool or dupe someone (usually temporarily, and typically without malicious intent).
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1899 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Courier 18 Nov. 6/3 A northern man..told him that any time after 12 o'clock..was evening with Arkansas people... ‘But they had me going some,’ said Dick, ‘until I got onto their ways.’
1915 F. P. Elliott Pals First 245 Say, you had me going there for a second—honestly you did... Who wouldn't be fooled?
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter & Bone viii. 206 I kind of had you going back there, didn't I... All that junk about love and security.
1996 Just Seventeen 14 Aug. 59/3 She's just winding you up. Had you going for a minute, though.
2002 R. Rankin Hollow Chocolate Bunnies Apocalypse xxx. 331 You had me going there, almost. I believed you were Jon Kelly.
i. Originally and chiefly U.S. to go: (esp. as postmodifier) (of food or drink purchased in a restaurant, shop, etc.) that is, or is intended to be, consumed off the premises. Cf. to take away 6 at take v. Phrasal verbs 1, to take out 2f at take v. Phrasal verbs 1.
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1927 E. Hemingway in Scribner's Mag. Mar. 230/1 George had gone out to the kitchen and made a ham-and-egg sandwich ‘to go’ that a man wanted to take with him.
1940 Black Mask Nov. 47/1 I want a couple of hamburgers to go. They're not for me.
1964 Wall St. Jrnl. 23 Sept. 1/5 Food sold ‘to go’ at drive-ins in Rhode Island..was ruled not subject to the state sales tax.
1980 A. Beattie Falling in Place (1981) vi. 60 Can I have a bagel and a coffee to go?
1982 B. Andersson & B. Ulvaeus Day before you Came (song) in Abba: Lyrical Coll. I must have opened My frontdoor At eight O'clock or so And stopped along the way To buy some chinese Food-to-go.
2000 Times 7 Aug. ii. 5/4 Tall skinny latte to go.
P4. In proverbial phrases.
a. what goes up must come down: (with reference to the effects of gravity) something thrown into the air must eventually descend; (hence figurative) a person or thing currently in the ascendant will inevitably suffer a decline in fortune.Apparently popularized by descriptions of anti-aircraft shrapnel during the First World War (1914–18), although the phrase is recorded from the early 19th cent. in U.S. use.
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1826 T. Sedgwick Hints to my Countrymen vii. 180 When one boy among a dozen throws a stone into the air, crying out, that ‘what goes up must come down’, it is very likely so to happen.
1860 Connersville (Indiana) Daily News 14 June 1/3 Don't get on stilts in prosperity, nor on your knees in adversity; for what goes up must come down, but what goes down don't always come up.
1929 F. A. Pottle Stretchers vii. 168 The antiaircraft guns always took a shot for luck. What goes up must come down, and one can be killed quite as neatly by a fragment of his own shrapnel as by the enemy's.
1931 Flying Mag. Dec. 80/1 ‘What goes up must come down.’ It has been raining various sized bits of metal for the past several minutes.
1988 G. Lockwood Compl. Idiot's Guide to Crafts with Kids vi. 62 Some people say this paper airplane originated at Dartmouth University to illustrate the ‘What goes up must come down’ principle relative to the stock market.
2006 R. Gunesekera Match (2007) 298 ‘What has happened?.. In 1996 we were the champions of the world. What the hell has gone wrong?’ ‘What goes up, must come down.’
b. colloquial (originally U.S.). what goes around, comes around and variants: a person will eventually suffer the consequences, or reap the rewards, of his or her actions; events are cyclical.
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1962 Bulletin (Chicago) 21 June 4 What everybody forgets is ‘what comes around—goes around’.
1978 Washington Post 9 July d5/2 I know people say, ‘What goes around, comes around.’ They say swallowing your pride is just part of life. But I still hate it.
1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold Clicking ii. 143 And all those we've talked to, in the last few years, seem to define their karma and ground themselves by following one Golden Rule: What Goes Around, Comes Around.
2002 New Republic 29 Apr. 28/1 Roy notes ‘that what goes around, eventually comes around.’ How could the..New World ever match such ancient understanding?

Phrasal verbs

PV1. With adverbs in specialized senses. to go about
1. intransitive.
a. To move round in a circle; to revolve, rotate; to complete a revolution. rare in later use.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > move in a circle or curve [verb (intransitive)] > move in a circle
to go aboutOE
whirlc1290
circule1430
circlec1440
to cast, fet, fetch, go, take a compass?a1500
circuit1611
circumgyre1634
revolve1660
circulate1672
orba1821
circumvolve1841
to loop the loop1902
orbit1948
OE Ælfric Hexameron (Hatton 115) 44 On þam oðrum dæge ure Drihten geworhte þone firmamentum þe men hatað rodor..and he æfre gæð abutan swa swa yrnende hweowol, and he næfre ne stent stille on anum.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxxi. 1386 It is yseide þat heuene goþ aboute wiþ consonancy and acord of melody.
c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) l. 430 I saugh my selve In hir cercle sygnes twelve, In ther course..From Est to West goynge aboute.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 569/2 I go aboute, as a whele dothe, je rotis.
1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas ii. 36 The months of the year haue not yet gone about, wherin the Lorde hath bowed the heavens, and come downe amongst vs.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. iii. 32 The weyward [form emended by Theobald (1733) to weïrd] Sisters, hand in hand..Thus doe goe, about, about. View more context for this quotation
a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 262 Julius Cæsar allotted 365 daies and 6 hours to this Revolution, but the Sun goeth about in less time.
1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. iii. 43 The fewer the Teeth on a wheel are, the sooner a wheel goes about, and the more Teeth on a wheel, the slower the wheel goes about.
1754 W. Emerson Princ. Mech. xiii. 264 When the mill goes about, the cog V raises the side OP.
1804 C. L. Lewes Comic Sketches 117 Sir Minikin..cried out, Bravo, before one wheel went about.
2012 M. Palu Jesus & Time iv. 87 As the wheels go about in their cyclic movement, they carry the chariot forward.
†b. To use circumlocution. Obsolete. rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > be copious [verb (intransitive)] > use periphrasis
to beat (formerly also go, wend, seek) about the bushc1440
wind1528
periphrase1652
to go about1815
circumlocute1859
circumlocutionize1886
to go (all) round the houses1958
1815 Woman's Will ii. i Why do you go about with me thus—why not speak to be understood?
2. intransitive.
a. To go here and there; to move to and fro; to go from place to place, typically while engaged in a specified activity.
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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > travel about or visit many places
runeOE
to go aboutc1300
passc1400
discur1557
dispace1588
perambulate1607
to get about1776
to go around1796
to get around1798
circulate1848
c1300 Life & Martyrdom Thomas Becket (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 76 (MED) Heo..ȝeode aboute as a best that ne couthe no wysdom.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12611 Sua lang a-bute þan had mari gan þat weri was sco bath lith and ban.
a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 1940 As seynt Antony aboute yede, Byddyng his orysoun.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. sig. N.iiiiv As I goe more about than you, so must I more heare nedes..ye maner of men in thys matter.
1670 H. Stubbe Legends No Hist. 6 Glory is not due to such as go about with a dog and a hoop.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. ii. 155 I think it is great Pity that such a pretty young Gentleman should undervalue himself so, as to go about with these Soldier Fellows. View more context for this quotation
1794 Scots Mag. Sept. 519/2 The lower class..believed in benevolent spirits, which they called brownies, who went about in the night time.
1829 C. Lamb Let. 10 Apr. (1935) III. 214 You go about, in rain or fine at all hours.
1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. ix. 94 An attorney's clerk, indeed, that went about with a bag!
1928 Daily Express 23 Feb. 3/5 There are always Jeremiahs who go about saying that we have never had such bad times.
1964 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 16 July (1995) 348 There was a curious local character, an old man who used to go about swapping gossip and weather-wisdom and such like.
2005 R. L. Parry In Time of Madness 224 The chief of the MLOs..went about in dark glasses brandishing a little cane.
b. Of a report, money, etc.: to circulate; to be or become widely current.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publish or spread abroad [verb (intransitive)] > spread or be current
springOE
spreadc1300
to go abouta1325
quicka1400
risea1400
runa1400
walkc1400
stir1423
voice1429
fly1480
to go abroad1513
to come abroad1525
wandera1547
divulge1604
to get abroad1615
to take aira1616
to make (also do) the rounds1669
to get about1740
reach1970
a1325 St. Hilary (Corpus Cambr.) l. 43 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 6 Misbileue..ȝeode þo aboute faste Leon þe pope..þerto his herte caste And was yturnd in misbileue.
1532 G. Hervet tr. Xenophon Treat. House Holde f. 57 Ye shal not lightly here suche a tale go about, that suche a mans house is vndone, bicause he hath not sowed euen.
1639 W. Balcanquhall Large Declar. Tumults Scotl. 228 They found that both shee knew that shee was speaking, and what shee was speaking (contrary to that report which went about of her).
1664 Waller's Poems Printer to Rdr. For we see clipt and washt Money go about when the entire and weighty lies hoarded up.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 76 Innumerable Stories also went about of the cruel Behaviours and Practises of Nurses.
1840 Evergreen Nov. 622/1 How is it, mother, that there is a report going about that you have money?
1867 Fortn. Rev. 1 Mar. 351 Rumours went about of an impromptu dance.
1918 R. Kipling in European War (N. Y. Times Current Hist.) 15 90/2 There [is]..more money going about and fewer things to buy with it.
1995 K. Ishiguro Unconsoled xiii. 189 I'm sure there's a lot of gossip going about.
3. intransitive. With infinitive. To busy oneself with doing something; to endeavour, contrive, or conspire to do something. Now archaic and rare.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > make an attempt or endeavour [verb (intransitive)] > to do something
cuneOE
seekc1000
fanda1225
suec1325
tastec1330
enforcec1340
study1340
temptc1384
intendc1385
assaila1393
proffera1393
to make meansc1395
search?a1400
fraistc1400
pursuec1400
to go aboutc1405
pretend1482
attempta1513
essay?1515
attend1523
regarda1533
offer1541
frame1545
to stand about1549
to put into (also in) practice1592
prove1612
imitate1626
snap1766
begin1833
make1880
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Physician's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 158 This false Iuge gooth now faste aboute To hasten his delit.
a1475 (?a1350) Seege Troye (Harl.) (1927) l. 1187 (MED) Lordyngis..abought ye gon To fellyn Ector.
c1520 tr. Terence Andria v. iv, in Terens in Eng. sig. D.iiiv Gost thow abowt to begyle our yong men.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. f. 210 They..that go about to appease God with their owne recompencinges.
1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth i. 71 Cardinall Granuill..went about to set the English and the Netherlanders..at variance.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. vii. 299 Without that any Body..ever went about to shew the reason..of their clearness.
1764 R. Burn Hist. Poor Laws 233 It is a kind of insult upon poverty, to go about to lodge poor people in a superb edifice.
1778 W. Cookworthy & T. Hartley in tr. E. Swedenborg Treat. Heaven & Hell Pref. p. xlviii God forbid that we should go about to straiten that mercy towards others (though even devils), to which the very best of us stand indebted.
1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford xi Surely the power was never given to such beings to harm those who went about to try to do what little good was in their power.
1884 J. Payne tr. Bk. Thousand Nights & One Night VIII. vi. 321 How wilt thou go about to kill him?
1914 R. Frost Code in Poems 73 I went about to kill him fair enough.
1927 H. T. Lowe-Porter tr. T. Mann Magic Mountain (London ed.) I. v. 300 How people in this state go about to betray themselves is hard to define.
2003 A. Vincent in B. Haddock & P. Sutch Multiculturalism, Identity & Rights iv. 55 Petitio principi, that is, assuming as true those first principles that one is going about to actually prove.
4. intransitive.
a. Nautical. To set on the opposite tack. Cf. to put about 1b at put v. Phrasal verbs 1.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > go about
to turn, wend the luff?c1225
to turn (the) wind14..
to go about1588
veera1653
1588 T. P. tr. A. Perez de Guzman Orders Voy. Eng. sig. Bv Before she goeth about [Sp. antes de virar], she will shoot off a peece.
1642 T. Richard Warlike Proc. Protestant Army in Ireland sig. A3 This Ship is speedily to go about for Gallway with powder and Bisket.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World x. 299 The Vessel having a Head at each end, so as to sail with either of them foremost (indifferently) they need not tack, or go about, as all our Vessels do, but each end of the Boat serves either for head or stern as they please.
1724 J. Kelly Mod. Navigator's Compl. Tutor App. 55 The Wind will be Northerly, make ready to go about; we shall lie our Course the other way.
1795 Oracle & Public Advertiser 5 Aug. The Lowestoffe opened a well-directed fire; the enemy's second frigate then passing, and exchanging the opposite broadsides, His Majesty's ships were kept on the same tack till she went about.
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy II. x. 291 Don't you think we had better go about?
1879 J. Inglis Yachtsman's Holidays iv. ii. 124 As we were on the starboard tack we assumed she would go about, or modestly pass under our lee.
1969 Jrnl. Inst. Navigation 22 289 She cannot alter course to starboard..without going about.
1997 Classic Boat May 60/2 There's more to sailing than knowing how to go about, gybe, or hoist sail.
†b. Military. To turn round; to execute an about-turn. Obsolete.
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1642 New Declar. Last Affairs Ireland 11 Wee advanced towards the Rebels till by the interposition of a hedge and hollow way, some of the Troops were forced to goe about, and then drew up again in the same order, on the otherside of the Hedge.
1761 C. Dalrymple Mil. Ess. v. 69 The men are to look to the wheeling hand, and should turn to the right about without stopping; which is a much better method than halting first; then going about.
1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry 87 Should it be required again to form in line on the same ground, the divisions will go about, ranks by three's.
1851 T. Robbins Cavalry Catech. 51 The Front Line must not go About until the Retiring Line has fronted.
 to go abroad
1. intransitive. To go outdoors or away from home. Now rare (archaic and regional).In quot. c1400: †to go here and there, to travel widely (obsolete).
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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > make short journey or excursion, esp. for pleasure
to go abroadc1400
to make an errandc1400
to look out1551
jaunt1647
out1653
trip1664
to make or take a step1670
to step up1758
run1759
excursion1792
excursionize1866
tripper1959
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiv. l. 60 (MED) Þorw his breth bestes wexen and abrode ȝeden.
1496 Dives & Pauper (de Worde) i. xxxiii. sig. d.ijv/1 Yet is he not closed ne bounde, but he gooth abrode as he dyde byfore.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 569/2 I go abrode, as one dothe that gothe out of his chambre after a sicknesse, or gothe out of his house to be sene.
1640 R. Brathwait Ar't Asleepe Husband? 190 The Romans..will not suffer their Wifes to go abroad, either to Church or any place else.
1725 A. Pope Corr. 15 Oct. (1956) II. 331 Here is Arbuthnot..recover'd from the jaws of death... He goes abroad again, and is more chearful than even Health can make a man.
1785 W. Cowper Epist. to J. Hill in Task 286 Horatio's servant..Overawed Lest he should trespass, begg'd to go abroad.
1816 J. Austen Emma I. xiii. 238 The going abroad in such weather. View more context for this quotation
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xviii. 153 We let their bodies go abroad liberally enough, with smiles and ringlets and pink bonnets to disguise them instead of veils and yakmaks.
1960 A. O. D. Claxton Suffolk Dial. (ed. 2) Going abroad, going outside into the open air.
1971 G. M. Fraser Steel Bonnets xlii. 352 Robert Carey got wind of a plot to murder the West March Warden..by..catching him unawares either in his home or as he went abroad.
2. intransitive. Of a report, rumour, etc.: to circulate, spread; to be or become widely current. Now somewhat archaic.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publish or spread abroad [verb (intransitive)] > spread or be current
springOE
spreadc1300
to go abouta1325
quicka1400
risea1400
runa1400
walkc1400
stir1423
voice1429
fly1480
to go abroad1513
to come abroad1525
wandera1547
divulge1604
to get abroad1615
to take aira1616
to make (also do) the rounds1669
to get about1740
reach1970
1513 Lydgate's Troye Bk. (Pynson) iv. xxxiv. sig. y.ivv/1 Let euery man beware as it is gode Or his counsayle go to ferre abrode.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Micah iv. 3 The tyme wil come, that thy gappes shal be made vp, and the lawe shal go abrode.
1640 Proc. Commissioners Parl. of Scotl. 88 in W. Kerr True Representation Proc. Kingdome of Scotl. Informations went abroad in other nations, to the prejudice of us and our Cause.
a1719 J. Addison Evid. Christian Relig. (1733) 3 The report which had gone abroad concerning a life so full of miracles.
1820 C. Jeffreys Van Dieman's Land 167 An idea has gone abroad that the permission of Government is necessary to settle in the colony.
1888 J. McCarthy & R. C. Praed Ladies' Gallery II. viii. 125 My fame had gone abroad in London.
1915 E. B. Holt Freudian Wish p. vi The idea has gone abroad that the term ‘Freudian’ is somehow synonymous with ‘sexual’.
1999 V. A. McConnell Arsenic under Elms vii. 68 A rumor had gone abroad that tickets would be issued for entrance to the trial.
†3. intransitive. Of cloth: to tear, come to pieces. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > tearing or tearing apart > tear [verb (intransitive)]
renda1325
racec1390
sundera1393
shearc1450
ruska1525
rent1526
tear1526
to go abroad1568
raga1642
spalt1731
screeda1801
1568 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlviii. 40 It tuggis in hoilis, and gais abbreid.
4. intransitive. To go to a foreign country or overseas.
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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > travel in or to foreign lands
to go abroad1641
globe-trot1883
1641 J. Wadsworth in tr. European Mercury Ep. Ded. sig. A2v The work is necessary for all this Kingdome, rich or poore, traveller or not traveller, wherein they may al benefit themselves, it serving for a guide to those that go abroad, and a Map for those at home.
1671 E. Leigh 3 Diatribes 6 He should be first well acquainted with his own Country, before he go abroad.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 5 I resolv'd not to think of going abroad any more, but to settle at home.
1786 H. L. Piozzi Anecd. Johnson 168 His desire to go abroad, particularly to see Italy, was very great.
1855 Harper's Mag. June 91/2 We have no need to go abroad to study ethnology. A walk through the streets of any great city will show us specimens of every human variety known.
1871 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch (1872) I. i. ix. 137 And now he wants to go abroad again.
1925 J. Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer ii. iii. 172 I'm going abroad; I'm going to do foreign correspondent work for the A.P.
1987 Cape Cod Life Apr. 112/3 Resika went abroad, traveling to Paris and Rome, and finally settling in Venice.
2000 D. Yue tr. X. Xi Flying Carpet ii. 197 These nice decent boys, they go abroad to study, and then come back and act like idiots.
† to go adown
Obsolete.
intransitive. = to go down at Phrasal verbs 1 (in various senses).
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OE Ælfric De Temporibus Anni (Cambr. Gg.3.28) (2009) ix. 92 Arcton..ne gæð næfre adune under ðissere eorðan.
OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Exod. (Claud.) xxxii. 15 Moyses eode þa adun of ðam munte, & hæfde him on handa twa stænene tabulan.
c1261 ( Bounds (Sawyer 1165) in S. E. Kelly Charters of Chertsey Abbey (2015) 108 Bitwiene þe shrubbes and winebrigt goinde adun norþ rigte binuþe þe parkes gate.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 9008 Oure ost al to sone Bigan to sprede & eode adoun.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 103 (MED) Þe sonne ȝude adoun.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 260 Adown he gooth and tolde his maister soone.
a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) in Centaurus (1968) 12 227 Cokles..þat ben of no sesoun Of hir time siþ thei ȝede adoun..stinken..ful grevously.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 14 And where againe he [sc. Titan] goeth, a downe to take his rest, There stands Peleponnesus lande, for there I compt it west.
 to go ahead
Originally U.S. colloquial.
intransitive. To proceed or continue without pause or hesitation; to progress rapidly. Frequently (and in earliest use) imperative in go ahead!: expressing permission or authorization to proceed or progress in this way.In quot. 1846: †to surpass something (obsolete). Cf. literal uses at main sense 29a.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > proceed rapidly [verb (intransitive)]
to go ahead1826
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move forward or advance [verb (intransitive)] > rapidly
to go ahead1826
1826 Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 19 July Two black women were about to fight, and their beaux cheered them to the combat with ‘Go ahead and buss e boiler.’
1834 D. Crockett Narr. Life i. 13 I throw aside all hypocritical and fawning apologies, and, according to my own maxim, just ‘go ahead’.
1846 Knickerbocker Mag. 27 408 He declared..that of all the music he ever did hear, that ‘a leetle went ahead’.
1860 R. B. Brough Marston Lynch xii. 110 Go a-head! in whatever you feel to be your vocation.
1898 Pall Mall Mag. Jan. 82 ‘Don't interrupt me when I am explaining problems to you’..‘All right—go ahead.’
1910 E. E. Slosson Great Amer. Universities xiv. 452 Each school or department just goes ahead and does whatever it thinks best.
1966 Listener 23 June 904/2 In the meantime Sixtus was authorized to go ahead.
2010 W. Tower in New Yorker 13 Sept. 69/1 You want to hate me over this, Coates, go ahead. But you won't hate me a hair as much as I hate myself.
 to go along
1. intransitive.
a. To move onward or forward; to proceed (with reference both to physical movement and to figurative progress).See also to make (something) up as one goes along at make v.1 Phrasal verbs 1.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move forward or advance [verb (intransitive)]
wadeOE
agoOE
forthganga1000
forthgoOE
syeOE
kenc1275
to-stepc1275
vaunce1303
forthnima1325
passc1330
throc1330
forthpass1382
to pass forthc1384
to carry forthc1390
proceedc1392
to go alongc1400
to be forthwardc1430
get) groundc1436
to set onc1450
avauntc1460
pretend1481
to make way1490
advance?1507
to get forward1523
promove1570
to rid ground (also space)1572
to rid (the) way1581
progressa1586
to gather grounda1593
to make forth1594
to make on1597
to work up1603
perge1607
to work one's (also its) way1609
to pass on1611
to gain ground1625
to make its way1645
vadea1660
propagate1700
to gain one's way1777
further1789
to pull up1829
on1840
to make (up) ground1921
the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > advance, progress, or develop [verb (intransitive)] > advance or make progress
furtherc1200
profit1340
to go alongc1400
to get forward1523
advance1577
proceedc1592
to take or make strides1600
to get on1655
to get along1768
to get ahead1807
to be well away1821
to get somewhere (also anywhere)1923
ramp1980
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 3406 (MED) Ten mylen hij ȝeden alenge.
?a1425 (?1373) Lelamour Herbal (1938) f. 64v Pympirnell, oþer yworte.., goþe alonge by the grounde, and he beryth a rede sangwyne colour and leves leke to chekwede.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Deut. ii. 27 I wil go a longe by the hye waye, I wil nether turne to the righte hande ner to ye lefte.
1580 A. Saker Narbonus ii. 106 Fidelia going along with hir father, & talking of common matters.
1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 217 He could not have beene able as hee went along to have seene the Wood for Trees.
1730 J. Cowell Curious & Profitable Gardener ii. i. 19 As I go along, I may take notice too, that, by Tradition, the Jucca is called Adam's Needle.
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xxi. 133 Lovelace..like an absolved confessionaire, wipes off, as he goes along, one score, to begin another.
1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature I. ix. 285 Watch his face as he goes along, slowly and solemncoly through the street.
1894 Occidental Med. Times Mar. 161 The case went along nicely for a week, when the patient became a raving maniac.
1911 E. F. Ware Indian War of 1864 xxvi. 373 For the balance of the trip he went along like a good, sensible horse.
1948 Z. N. Hurston Seraph on Suwanee iv. 44 They went along unevenly over clods that had grass grown over them.
2005 Writer's Mag. Sept. 28/2 With desktop publishing, proofing is done almost as you go along.
b. imperative. In go along (with you)!: expressing (playful) impatience or dismissiveness, or (mock) disbelief, derision, etc.; ‘get away’, ‘get lost’. Cf. to go away 1c at Phrasal verbs 1, to go on 3b at Phrasal verbs 1, get along with you at get v. Phrasal verbs 1. Now somewhat archaic and rare.
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1792 Mod. Miniature II. i. 30 Why, you powder-monkey..what do you want?..Go along, you puppy you, or I'll lay my stick over your shoulders.
1840 Peter Parley's Ann. 29 I asked her for a half-penny twelfth-cake just now, and she said, ‘Go along; go along’.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 8 Sept. 5/1 You just go along, or I'll smack your dirty face!
1949 P. P. Argenti & H. J. Rose Folk-lore Chios I. ix. 567 ‘Pshaw, go along with you,’ said the gendarmes to him.
2. intransitive. To travel or go to a specified or implied place; to accompany a person or group on an outing or journey (later esp. in a casual or unplanned way).
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1539 Bible (Great) Num. xxxiv. 4 Go out also to Hazat Adar, and go alonge to Azmon.
1595 W. Burton Rowsing of Sluggard sig. C2 The negligent Minister must goe a-long to the Pismires Lecture.
1687 Exam. of Kakariall 31 Aug. in E. O′Callaghan Documents Colonial Hist. N.-Y. (1853) III. 432 Ten or twelve canoes with French went after them, who at last persuaded them to go along to Oniagoragh.
1863 J. Abbott Jonas on Farm in Summer (new ed.) v. 78 ‘Let us go and see first whether the rock is cracked.’ The boys accordingly went along to examine the rock.
1887 D. Hand in Glimpses of Nation's Struggle 300 As we were very anxious about them, I decided to go along.
1932 J. G. Neihardt Black Elk Speaks xv. 185 He must go along to watch.
1939 L. D. Baldwin Whiskey Rebels xi. 212 Parker..planned to leave Greensburg..and Brackenridge..decided to go along.
2010 Independent 7 Apr. 33/2 He went along for an interview and got the job.
3. intransitive. to go along with.
a. To travel or go to a specified or implied place with (a person or group).
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society > travel > [verb (transitive)] > travel in company with
to go along with1588
society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > accompany or associate with [verb (transitive)]
seeOE
to bear (a person) company (also fellowship, etc.)c1225
mella1300
fellowshipa1382
companya1400
accompany1461
to keep company (with)1502
encompanya1513
to keep (a person) company1517
to take repast1517
assist1553
to take up with1570
rempare1581
to go along with1588
amate1590
bear1590
to fall in1593
consort1598
second1600
to walk (also travel) in the way with1611
comitate1632
associate1644
enhaunt1658
join1713
assort1823
sit1828
companionize1870
to take tea with1888
to knock about with1915
tote1977
fere-
1588 G. Babington Profitable Expos. Lords Prayer vi. 485 We haue beside, the company in this crosse of such great and deere ones to the Lorde, we should be euen glad we may go along with them.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. viii. 2 With him is Gratiano gone along . View more context for this quotation
1649 C. Cheesman Lamb Contending with Lion sig. A4 The Gentleman told me that he would give me direction to go to the Speaker, and..went along with me, through the House of Commons, up into the Committee-Chamber.
a1712 W. King tr. P. de la Croix Persian & Turkish Tales (1714) I. 131 You fill me with Desire to see the Lady, and I will absolutely go along with you by and by when you go to see her.
1780 Mirror No. 81 Going along with a set of other girls..to..a public writing-school.
1822 B. E. O'Meara Napoleon in Exile I. 493 Went along with Captain Poppleton..to a rat hunt in the camp.
1853 Minutes of Evid. Select Comm. Liverpool Election Comm. 78 in Parl. Papers 1852–3 (H.C. 653) XV. 19 There was a gentleman came up to me, and asked me if I would go and poll, and I went along with him.
1925 St. Nicholas Nov. 476/1 I wish I'd offered to go along with him.
1996 C. Bateman Of Wee Sweetie Mice & Men vii. 57 I went along with him on his run this morning. Some hoods jumped him. He sorted them out.
†b. To follow or understand (an argument, person, etc.). Obsolete.
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1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. ii. 15 Nor haue we heerein bard Your better wisedomes, which haue freely gone With this affaire along. View more context for this quotation
1622 P. Scot Calderwoods Recantation ii. 31 If you will goe a little along with me, and suruey vpon what grounds these proceedings & misdemeanors were builded, you shall finde they had none at all, but imaginary Speculation.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 115. 2 Every Limb, and every Finger, contributes to the Part he acts, insomuch that a deaf Man might go along with him in the Sense of it.
1719 Compl. Coll. State-tryals III. 959/1 It is my part to give an Account of the Nature of the Evidence, to the end, that your Lordships may more easily go along with the Witnesses, as they are Examined.
1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood xxiii. 182 Sure, sure, sure! Yes, yes, yes! Now, I go along with you. You was too quick for me. I see now.
c. To go together with, be concomitant with; to be a partner or complement to. Also: †to be classed together with (obsolete).
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1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 207 Hee would haue mee ioyne my dutifull agreement to his choice, and order my loue to goe along with his pleasure.
1690 W. Temple Ess. Heroick Virtue i. 21 in Miscellanea: 2nd Pt. Whatever remains in Story of Atlas..is so obscured with Age or Fables, that it may go along with those of the Atlantick Islands.
1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. 201 Fear brings one into more Dangers, than the Caution, that goes along with it, delivers one from.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. xv. 285 An experience..has shown me that they [sc. a deep grey eye with a long dark eyelash] may go along with deceit.
1883 H. Spencer in Contemp. Rev. 43 14 It may..result that diminished happiness goes along with increased prosperity.
1934 Scrutiny Dec. iii. 230 It is a matter of common observation that a high degree of artistic discrimination can go along with an extreme paucity or imbalance of general emotional life.
1986 Jet. Aug. 159/2 The group stresses the responsibility that goes along with parenthood.
2004 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 12 Sept. i. 4/2 He wanted to put himself through school, but didn't want to pay the large debt that went along with it.
d. To agree with or approve of (a person, a proposal, etc.) to a certain extent; to accept, consent to; to comply or cooperate with.
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the mind > language > statement > agreement, concurrence, or unanimity > agree with [verb (transitive)] > to specific point
to go along with1624
to buy into1972
1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? xix. 153 This is your owne Doctrine in the Romane Schooles: And so farre the Protestants, for these Conditions, goe along with you.
1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (at cited word) I go so far along with you.
1775 Lady's Mag. Nov. 577/1 You are dexterously to go along with him in things, where you see that this niggardly part of his mind is most predominant.
1866 London Rev. 17 Feb. 188/1 So far we go along with M. Deak and his friends.
1880 Contemp. Rev. Feb. 196 I am more than half-disposed to go along with you in what you say.
1939 Fortune Oct. 73/1 New Deal financial experts..found that they could not go along with changes in monetary policy.
1962 Listener 22 Feb. 342/3 I have had my leg pulled a number of times... I went along with it.
1977 Blade (Toledo, Ohio) 12 Dec. p6 Cliff won't go along with Molly's scheme to take Olive's $10,000 and skip town.
2000 I. Rankin Confession in Beggars Banquet (2002) 251 It was all his idea. I just went along with it.
 to go around
1. intransitive.
a. To be passed from person to person (in early use esp. among a group of people at a table). Also: to circulate; to be or become widely known. Cf. to go round 1a at Phrasal verbs 1.
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1673 Bp. G. Burnet Vindic. Church & State Scotl. iv. 351 Another expedient they had, when a Bishop was heretical, that the neighboring Bishops used to publish it in their Cicular [sic] Letters, which went around, and so they did excommunicate or depose them.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 232 The Goblet goes around.
1721 Weekly Jrnl. 18 Mar. 716/1 When Phillis o'er Tea's sitting, And Stories go around.
1779 Public Advertiser 21 Sept. The Glass went around, And Mirth did abound.
1813 C. Lamb Mr. H. i. iv. 18 When the question goes around, who is your master? and who do you serve? One says, I serve lord so-and-so.
1891 Bye-gones 22 Apr. 66/1 A second toast goes around; and when the cup again reaches the president..he says, ‘Thou givest us a third cup.’
1918 32nd Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1910–11 160 When the hunters reached home the report went around that a child had been left in the woods.
1995 Guardian (Nexis) 16 Aug. 2 There were a lot of drugs going around, a hell of a lot, but the college was never raided.
2005 J. Canseco Juiced 117 Once the rumor went around that I was on steroids..I was persona non grata.
b. Of food, or anything distributed or shared out: to supply each person in a group, or to satisfy demand. Chiefly in the infinitive after an expression of quantity, as enough, plenty, etc. Cf. to go round 1b at Phrasal verbs 1.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > be sufficient [verb (intransitive)] > to be distributed
to go around1841
to go round1855
1841 Newchurchman Jan. 42 The supply of ice cream..look [sic] as if it was hardly enough to go around.
1883 Harper's Mag. Feb. 446/1 The apples and nuts are just enough to go around.
1904 Bull. National Metal Trades Assoc. July 310/1 There was so much to go around that their material demands were readily granted.
1922 B. Hecht 1001 Afternoons in Chicago 128 But there's enough of you to go around, you can bet.
2002 Time 27 May 27/3 The blame game is under way... And one thing we now know: there is plenty of blame to go around.
c. Of an illness, disease, etc.: to spread, be prevalent.
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1892 Amer. Homeopathist 15 Apr. 127/1 In our grandfather's day the itch went around every winter.
1913 U.S. Naval Med. Bull. 7 621 At the seaside in little cottages and lodgings people crowd together in the evenings, and they would infect each other if a cold were going around.
1966 H. Arundel High House vi. 79 Whenever you have a cold or a sore throat someone always tells you that there's a lot of it going around.
1993 Spin Apr. 15/4 Meticulous condom use is a sensible thing, considering all the STDs going around.
2. intransitive.
a. To go from one place to another, esp. in an indirect, circuitous, or roundabout way. In later use also: to pay a visit in an informal or incidental way (to someone or somewhere). Cf. to go round 5a at Phrasal verbs 1.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)]
scritheOE
walka1200
fizgig1594
itinerate1600
to go round1636
to travel it1687
to go around1742
flitch1787
society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (intransitive)] > visit informally
to call in1573
to drop in1609
to look ina1616
to come round1620
to go round1636
to put in1668
to go around1742
to happen in1749
to run in and out1779
to come around1822
to pop in and out1846
to happen in with1883
to stop in1904
stop1905
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > change course or turn off > diverge from direct course > make a detour > go or come by circuitous route
to come round1620
to go round1636
to go around1742
1742 J. Cennick Let. 26 Apr. in Christian's Mag. (1792) 3 20 Then I also think to go around into Gloucestershire, and visit brother Adam's society.
1811 I. Mitchell Asylum II. x. 47 He clambered over the garden wall and went around to the back side of the house.
1899 K. Chopin Awakening xxii. 173 Then I'll go around and see her.
1917 E. Wharton Summer xi. 154 She went around to the kitchen door and felt under the mat for the key.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 727 Would I go around by the quays there some dark evening..and pick up a sailor.
1989 G. Anderson in New Q. (Canada) Spring 20 The key I've just had made... doesn't fit my lock so I go around to the superintendent.
2005 K. Holden In my Skin 37 I'd go around to James's late at night, after a day on my feet in the store.
b. To visit (in succession) a number of places or people; to go from place to place, typically while engaged in a specified activity. Cf. to go round 5b at Phrasal verbs 1.
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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > travel about or visit many places
runeOE
to go aboutc1300
passc1400
discur1557
dispace1588
perambulate1607
to get about1776
to go around1796
to get around1798
circulate1848
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc ix. 347 Well-pleased he [sc. a Dæmon] went around, Plunging his dagger in the hearts of some, Or probing with a poison'd lance their breasts.
1846 J. F. Cooper Redskins I. v. 76 I had dispensed with the monkey, after trying to get along with the creature for an hour or two, and went around only with my music.
1921 Z. Grey Call of Canyon (1924) x. 240 She goes around knocking everybody and saying New York backs Sodom off the boards.
1932 J. G. Neihardt Black Elk Speaks ii. 14 A medicine man..went around among the people curing snowblinds.
2011 Daily Tel. 11 July 13/2 The study found that fathers were most likely to go around turning off lights and standby switches.
c. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). To be regularly in company (with a person, esp. a lover). Also with together. Cf. to go round 7 at Phrasal verbs 1, to go with —— at Phrasal verbs 2.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate together or with [verb (intransitive)]
mingc1275
company1387
joinc1390
meddlec1390
herd?a1400
fellowshipc1430
enfellowship1470
to step in1474
accompany?1490
yoke?a1513
to keep with ——c1515
conjoin1532
wag1550
frequent1577
encroach1579
consort1588
sort1595
commerce1596
troop1597
converse1598
to keep (also enter, come into, etc.) commons1598
to enter common1604
atone1611
to walk (also travel) in the way with1611
minglea1616
consociate1638
associate1644
corrive1647
co-unite1650
walk1650
cohere1651
engage1657
mix1667
accustom1670
to make one1711
coalite1735
commerciate1740
to have nothing to say to (also with)1780
gang?1791
companion1792
mess1795
matea1832
comrade1865
to go around1904
to throw in with1906
to get down1975
the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > court or woo [verb (transitive)] > keep company with as a lover
to go with ——c1330
to go rounda1867
trot1888
to go around1904
track1916
1904 Secret Service 19 Aug. 21/1 Do you know anything about a large, good-looking woman who goes around with him?
1917 Boys' Life Apr. 26/2 Oh, Capio is a peach of a Scout, he is—going around with Fat and the gang and smoking pills!
1939 Life 8 May 80 We started going around together..and the first thing we knew—at least I knew—it was getter hotter.
1959 J. Braine Vodi xii. 162 Once he started going around with her there were more withdrawals than deposits in his Post Office savings book.
2008 J. Beattiey Twelve Girls 214 They'd been going around together for two years or so now, quite happily, friends, companions, not quite lovers.
3. intransitive. To move in a circular or orbital course; to revolve, rotate. Cf. to go round 2a at Phrasal verbs 1.
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1750 Wks. Beaumont & Fletcher (rev. ed.) VII. 272 The Jew or the Turk, Have leave for to work, The whilst that the Mill goes around.
1755 W. Huggins & T. H. Croker tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso I. iv. 49 He took his way where does exactly fall The Sun, when with the Crab he goes around.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1324 Upon the cutting cylinder, between the spiral blades, it is proposed to place stripes of plush..to raise the nap or pile as the cylinder goes around.
1877 Locomotive Engine Safety Truck Company vs. Pennsylvania Railroad Company: Defendant's Proofs (Circuit Court of U.S.: E. District Pennsylvania) 137 If the wheels are not in line and running parallel to the rail they cannot be expected to go around easy.
1909 Sat. Evening Post 20 Feb. 38/2 The wheel goes around; wherever the little indicator at the point of the pin stops, there is your prize.
1935 S. P. Meek Monkeys have no Tails in Zamboanga xii. 233 He just went around in a circle until he got dizzy and fell down.
2001 S. Roaf et al. Ecohouse (2002) v. 116 Winds of this speed in a ‘closed circulation’, meaning they go around in a complete circle, are classified as hurricanes or typhoons.
 to go away
1. intransitive.
a. To move away; to leave, depart. Also of time or a period of time: to pass, elapse. Cf. away-go at away adv., adj., and n. Compounds 1a.See also to go away with a flea in one's ear at flea n. 4a.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)]
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
atwendOE
awayOE
to wend awayOE
awendOE
gangOE
rimeOE
flitc1175
to fare forthc1200
depart?c1225
part?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
biwitec1300
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to draw awayc1330
passc1330
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
voidc1374
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
waive1390
to pass out ofa1398
avoida1400
to pass awaya1400
to turn awaya1400
slakec1400
wagc1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
muck1429
packc1450
recede1450
roomc1450
to show (a person) the feetc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
devoidc1485
rebatea1500
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
to go one's ways1530
retire?1543
avaunt1549
to make out1558
trudge1562
vade?1570
fly1581
leave1593
wag1594
to get off1595
to go off1600
to put off1600
shog1600
troop1600
to forsake patch1602
exit1607
hence1614
to give offa1616
to take off1657
to move off1692
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
sheera1704
to go about one's business1749
mizzle1772
to move out1792
transit1797–1803
stump it1803
to run away1809
quit1811
to clear off1816
to clear out1816
nash1819
fuff1822
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
mosey1829
slope1830
to tail out1830
to walk one's chalks1835
to take away1838
shove1844
trot1847
fade1848
evacuate1849
shag1851
to get up and get1854
to pull out1855
to cut (the) cable(s)1859
to light out1859
to pick up1872
to sling one's Daniel or hook1873
to sling (also take) one's hook1874
smoke1893
screw1896
shoot1897
voetsak1897
to tootle off1902
to ship out1908
to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909
to push off1918
to bugger off1922
biff1923
to fuck off1929
to hit, split or take the breeze1931
to jack off1931
to piss offa1935
to do a mick1937
to take a walk1937
to head off1941
to take a hike1944
moulder1945
to chuff off1947
to get lost1947
to shoot through1947
skidoo1949
to sod off1950
peel1951
bug1952
split1954
poop1961
mugger1962
frig1965
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)]
to come awayeOE
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
awayOE
dealc1000
goOE
awendOE
rimeOE
to go one's wayOE
flitc1175
depart?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
to turn awaya1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
recede1450
roomc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
avaunt1549
trudge1562
vade?1570
discoast1571
leave1593
wag1594
to go off1600
troop1600
hence1614
to set on one's foota1616
to pull up one's stumps1647
quit1811
to clear out1816
slope1830
to walk one's chalks1835
shove1844
to roll out1850
to pull out1855
to light out1859
to take a run-out powder1909
to push off (also along)1923
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xi. 271 Ungewiss com se deoful to Criste, & ungewis he eode aweg.
lOE St. Nicholas (Corpus Cambr.) (1997) 85 He..for to þæs wrecces mannes huse, & wearp þæt gold inn þurh anum eahþyrle wel stillice & eode sona aweg þæt hit nan mann nyste.
a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 11 (MED) Ga awei fram me, ðu ȝewereȝede, forð mid te dieule!
c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Royal) (1981) 346 (MED) Þe king bigon to wreððen þet te dei eode awei & heo ne duden nawiht.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. liv. 10 My mercy forsothe shal not gon awei fro thee..seide the Lord.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 6 (MED) Wan þe pope goþ a wey fro Crist, and doþ þe contrari..þan is not he Cristis vicar.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 181 After which houres, they [sc. bees] commonly goe not a way.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 308 This one night, which part of it, Ile waste With such discourse, as I not doubt, shall make it Goe quicke away . View more context for this quotation
1660 S. Clarke Gen. Martyrologie (new ed.) 461 Most through fear had gone away empty handed.
1711 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 163 'Tis pretended that this Smith must have went away that Morning.
1864 Peterson's Mag. Jan. 29/2 Her thoughts went away from the child to the memories which had been called up by Maurice Hadon's visit.
1869 C. Gibbon Robin Gray xix. 330 I saw her gaeing awa' in a gig wi' a man.
1917 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 250/1 There came word that we were going away early the following morning.
1980 M. Burke Laughing War iv. 48 Whatever money can buy to make the time go away is promptly bought.
2002 Bliss June 130/3 If I throw a stick will you go away, dog boy?
b. imperative. Used as a command to someone to depart: ‘go’, ‘leave’.
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 2 Kings ii. 22 Eft Abnerr spac to Asahel, go a-wei & [L. recede] wile þou not me suen, lest I be constreynyd to stiken þee in to þe erþe.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. i. 40 No more wordes. Away, go away . View more context for this quotation
1637 T. Hooker Soules Humiliation 206 Goe away you proud hearts, feare and tremble.
1769 I. Bickerstaff & S. Foote Doctor Last in Chariot iii. iv. 68 D. Last If you don't take it, I'll go away directly. Friend. Well, do go away, Sir, we desire it.
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. iv. 24 ‘Go away, Sarah,’ said Johnny.
1890 R. Kipling in Scots Observer 1 Mar. 409/2 O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' ‘Tommy, go away’.
1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman iv. 151 Go away until I have finished speaking to your father.
1961 P. G. Wodehouse Service with Smile vii. 109 ‘Go away, boy!’ he boomed. ‘You mean “Scram!”, don't you, chum?’ said George.
2006 C. Higson Blood Fever xxiv. 307 ‘Go away,’ he said... ‘Hop it.’ He flapped his hands at her and tried to shoo her away.
c. colloquial and regional (now chiefly Irish English). Also go away with you. Expressing (playful) impatience or dismissiveness, or (mock) disbelief, derision, etc.: ‘get along with you’, ‘get away’, ‘go on’. Cf. go along (with you)! at Phrasal verbs 1, get away with you at get v. Phrasal verbs 1.
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1876 P. L. Jacob Manners, Customs, & Dress Middle Ages 89 Another said, ‘Go away with you; you must have lost your senses.’
1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems 191 ‘Ha, ha, go away! 'Tis a tale methink!’..laughed she. ‘I've known thee many a year..And ever hast thou fooled me!’
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses 154 Milly has a position down in Mullingar, you know.—Go away! Isn't that grand for her?
1998 A. O'Hanlon Talk of Town (1999) ii. ii. 107 ‘He had a heart attack.’ ‘When?’ ‘Yesterday morning. Half past ten.’ ‘Go away.’
2007 B. J. Bayle Perilous Passage viii. 69 ‘I'll put some back.’ Alexander laughed. ‘Oh, go away with you. I was only teasing you. There's plenty more.’
2. intransitive.
a. To die, pass away.
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
?a1450 Metrical Life Christ (1977) 68 (MED) Forþi þe cite holly Maden forward sadly Þat no man schuld a worde saye Þat he was risen & gon away.
1582 R. Parsons tr. St. Augustine in First Bk. Christian Exercise ii. v. 390 A faythefull man that hathe lyued well, goeth awaye securelie.
1592 T. Churchyard Feast full of Sad Cheere 9 When the pangs of death arose, as sicknes did increase, He held vp hands and eyes did close, and went away in peace.
1611 J. Chamberlain Let. 20 Nov. in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) I. 148 He was reasonably well recovered in show, but went away in his sleep, when it was least looked for.
1798 W. Wordsworth We are Seven in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 113 In bed she moaning lay, Till God released her of her pain, And then she went away.
1867 J. N. Edwards Shelby & his Men xi. 172 After lingering in agony for a few hours he went away peacefully to join the great hosts of his comrades gone before.
1897 A. M. Thurber Zelma xix. 194 If we could but go away in peace and send back our love-thoughts instead of our personalities..we would not need to be looked upon as literally dead.
1919 Methodist Rev. Nov. 858 God took him. He went away in his sleep.
2012 B. K. Loren Theft 98 She tells me she is going away, she knows she is. She asks me to help her go away peacefully.
†b. To pass into unconsciousness, to faint. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > lose consciousness [verb (intransitive)] > faint or swoon
swotherc1000
swowa1250
swoonc1290
sweltc1330
trance1340
to fall on, in swowa1375
swapc1386
sound1393
dwelea1400
swaya1400
faintc1440
owmawt1440
swalmc1440
sweamc1440
syncopize1490
dwalm?a1513
swarf1513
swound1530
cothe1567
sweb1599
to go away1655
to die away1707
go1768
sink1769
sile1790
to pass out1915
to black out1935
1655 A. Symson Wilson's Compl. Christian Dict. (rev. ed.) 651/2 The children swoon, or faint and go away for want of food.
1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xv. 31 I was two Hours before I came to myself; and just as I got a little up on my Feet, he coming in, I went away again with the Terror.
†3. intransitive. to go away with: to win, succeed in winning; to carry off (a prize, spoil, etc.); to get away with. Also in †to go away with it: to get the best of it, to win the advantage. Obsolete.See also to go away with the garland at garland n. 3c, to go away (also flee) with the worse at worse adj. and n. Phrases 2d.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > win
win1297
obtain1441
to go away with it1489
triumph1508
to carry (also get, lose, win, etc.) the day1557
to bear it1602
carry1602
to carry away the bucklers1608
to carry one's point1654
to carry it off1828
to ring the bell1900
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery, superiority, or advantage [verb (intransitive)]
risec1175
to have the higher handa1225
to have the besta1393
bettera1400
vaila1400
to win or achieve a checka1400
surmount1400
prevaila1425
to have (also get) the better handa1470
to go away with it1489
to have the besta1500
to have (also get, etc.) the better (or worse) end of the staff1542
to have ita1616
to have (also get) the laugh on one's side1672
top1718
beat1744
to get (also have) the right end of the stick1817
to have the best of1846
to go one better1856
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > make a success of [verb (transitive)] > win (any contest or prize) > win (a prize, etc.)
to bear awayc1325
getc1330
winc1330
to go away with1489
to carry away1565
carry1570
to bear off?1615
to carry off1680
to take out1976
1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xviii. sig. Hviiv Brenyus of swaue had dystroyed the cyte of rome by werre and went awaye [Fr. sen alloit] wyth proyes and grete rychesses.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cxxix If the yong lorde of Fulbery, had not come with one .C. light horsmen, the Scottes had gone awaie with their botie.
1564 A. Golding tr. Justinus Hist. Trogus Pompeius xxiii. f. 101 He fought hand to hand agaynst many chalengers; and euer went away with the victory.
1597 F. Bacon Ess. f. 11v The Traitor in Factions lightly goeth away with it.
1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 161 Thou..maiest goe away with the glory of a perfect, and irreprehensible justice.
1677 G. Miege New Dict. French & Eng. i. sig. *Ggv/1 Ils ne l'emporteront pas de la sorte, il n'en ira pas ainsi, they shall not go away with it so.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. x. 68 I will not let her go away with such a triumph.
1793 Treat. Equity I. i. iv. 234 It is unjust that the lender should go away with such exorbitant gains.
4. intransitive. Of a boat or other vessel (or those on board): to sail swiftly or easily downwind. Now rare.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly and easily
to go or run on wheelsc1547
to go away1635
romp1816
1635 L. Foxe North-west Fox 126 About 5. in the afternoone, the wind encreased to a great storme, he tooke in his Sayles, and went away with a free and sprit sayle.
1685 B. Ringrose Bucaniers Amer. iv. xxiii. 185 At this time a second breeze came up very fresh in our stern; so that we took the opportunity thereof, and went away before it.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 19 We..were carried away with a continued Storm of Wind, from the same Corner, or near it, our Pilot..finding himself often obliged to go away before it.
a1732 T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 115 Mariners spread out their sails when the wind begins to blow, that they may go away before it.
1848 J. C. Hart Romance of Yachting ix. 77 Spreading our sails, away we went before the wind, careering like a race-horse.
1893 Hampshire Advertiser 15 Nov. 4/6 Away we went before the wind—expecting..that we should have to deal with a head breeze on the return voyage.
1916 C. Holme Old Road from Spain xx. 308 He got the anchor aboard, trimmed the sheets, and went away before the wind and the eye of the sun.
5.
a. intransitive. To leave home for a period of time; to go abroad, go on holiday, go on a honeymoon, etc.
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1694 A. Boyer Compl. French-master iii. xvii 102 I have often try'd..to discharge the promise I made you before I went away, to send you the particulars of our Journey.
1787 P. H. Maty tr. J. K. Riesbeck Trav. Germany I. xvii. 192 I met with no great entertainment from..some students, who were going away for the vacation.
a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. i. 19 The Crofts announced themselves to be going away for a few weeks, to visit their connexions in the north of the county.
1858 Harper's Mag. Jan. 233/2 Ellis would have advised him to go away for a short time, and return when..the talk was over.
1923 W. Cather Lost Lady i. ii. 28 He and his wife still went away for the winter, but each year the period of their absence grew shorter.
1986 Lydney Observer 12 Sept. 4/3 The bride wore a black and white suit to go away in.
2011 J. Barnes Sense of Ending 49 The others had gone away for the weekend.
b. intransitive. colloquial. To be sent to prison; to be incarcerated. Cf. to put away 2f at put v. Phrasal verbs 1.Quot. 1905 describes a misunderstanding: the specialist's advice is to go away meaning ‘to go on holiday’, but it is misinterpreted as meaning ‘to be sent to prison’; cf. canary n.5 2.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > be imprisoned [verb (intransitive)] > go to prison
to go over the wall1917
to go away1949
1905 Sporting Times 15 Apr. 2/4 The doc..said..Daddy had better see a West-end specialist... [The specialist] says: ‘Do the Canarys and go away for three months!’.. The servants..found old Dad..shoutin': ‘Do the canaries, the insultin' old blighter! Do the canaries an' git put away for three months! Me!’]
1949 N. Algren Man with Golden Arm i. 87 Sparrow had gone away for thirty days.
1974 G. V. Higgins Cogan’s Trade xi. 152 Now I'm goin' away again..and I know she'll play around.
2007 D. W. Durrant Cruising for Adventure xx. 149 I wanted to make sure this guy went away for attempted murder, not just stealing.
6. intransitive. Hunting (chiefly Fox-hunting). Of an animal, esp. a fox: to break from a den, lair, or covert, so the chase may begin; to be started (see start v. 7a(a)). Cf. gone away int. and n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > thing hunted or game > action of game > [verb (intransitive)]
to stand, be (abide obs.) at bayc1314
to steal awayc1369
stalla1425
starta1425
rusec1425
beatc1470
lodgec1470
trason1486
rouse1532
angle1575
bolt1575
to take squat1583
baya1657
watch1677
fall1697
tree1699
to go away1755
to sink the wind1776
to get up1787
to go to ground1797
lie1797
to stand up1891
fly1897
1755 Connoisseur No. 58. 345 We should have them all desert, or (in the language of fox-hunters) gone away.
1803 W. Taplin Sporting Dict. I. 333 The..holloa! from one sportsman to another in stag or fox hunting, when the game..goes away.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 15 Feb. 9/2 Almost immediately a fox went away, and he proved to be a real customer.
1923 Times 9 Nov. 5/5 The fox..went away again, ran on through Milwick Drumble, and was lost near Milwick Village.
2012 M. Letts Memories Life at College Valley ix. 40 There is a problem when a good fox goes away from a substantial covert..while the body of the pack is hard at work behind his brother.
7. intransitive. Originally U.S. Of something (or occasionally someone) undesirable: to cease to exist, to disappear; (of an issue or problem) to resolve itself without intervention. Frequently in negative contexts.
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1952 Daily Chron. (Centralia, Washington) 2 Aug. 6/2 (heading) War in Korea is one that will not go away.
1962 Pop. Sci. July 92 The awful perils of the 1960s won't go away just because we don't want to think about them.
1993 Chicago Tribune 3 Feb. i. 10/5 Mr. Rosenberg wished that the ‘enviro-complainers’ would just go away.
2014 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 31 July 26 The right to bear arms is the issue that won't go away.
 to go back
1. intransitive. To retrace one's steps; to revisit a place; to return. Also: to return or revert to a former state or condition.In quot. 1570: †to lose ground (obsolete).See also to go back to the mat at mat n.1 Phrases 3, to go back to the world at world n. Phrases 37.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > return > [verb (intransitive)]
to wend againeOE
i-cherrec1000
again-chareOE
again-comeOE
again-fareOE
again-goOE
eft-sithec1175
to turn againc1175
returna1325
attournec1386
turnc1390
recovera1393
repair?c1400
recourse?a1425
to go backc1425
resortc1425
revertc1475
renew1488
retour?1505
to make return1534
to turn back1538
retend1543
to come short home1548
regress1552
rejourna1556
revolt1567
revolve1587
repeal1596
recur1612
rewend1616
revene1656
to get back1664
to take back1674
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)] > return towards point of departure
repaira1325
returna1325
rebounda1382
redounda1382
recovera1393
to go backc1425
revertc1475
renew1488
reverse1542
retire1567
revolve1587
reciprocate1623
retrovert1639
to get back1664
recur1719
hoicks1762
boomerang1900
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 4141 (MED) Lamedoun his peple sawe goo bake.
a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. G. IV. 12) (1983) 145 But aftirward alle went bak and ȝold hem to þe kyng.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) vi. 140 Goo backe agen, & marre not your horse about noughte.
1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. x. 357 He wald not lat the Papists cause ga bak, Gif it wer Just, bot wald be for him frak.
1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 285 Let us goe backe, lest they take awaye our clothes.
1621 D. Widdowes tr. W. A. Scribonius Nat. Philos. 9 Plannets are sayd to goe backe, when remouing themselues, they goe not forward their course, but returne backe the way they came, in some part.
1647 King Charles I Let. in Antiquary (1880) I. 97 I will be content that ye come to some convenient Place to dyne, & goe back at night.
1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 199 'Twas for your pleasure you came here, You shall go back for mine.
1849 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 141/1 The attempts of English proprietors in the Highlands to go back to the exploded middle-age plan.
1883 Stubbs' Mercantile Circular 8 Nov. 982/2 The people in Nagasaki are fast going back to their old practice of spinning this class of fabric for themselves.
1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 20/2 My father was a baby at the time, and grandmother took him and went back to her family in New Iberia, on the Teche.
1990 J. Hughes Secrets of Times iv. 137 At this point he ought logically to have gone back and revised Ahaziah of Israel's and Joram's accession dates.
2005 K. MacNeil Stornoway Way 201 Ssshhh. Go back to sleep.
2. intransitive.
a. With from, †of. To withdraw from or renege on a promise, engagement, undertaking, etc. Cf. to go back on at sense 2b(b). Now rare.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose or intention [verb (transitive)] > withdraw from an engagement or promise
runOE
withdraw1340
waivec1386
to pass from (also of, fro)c1449
recoil1481
to go back1530
recant1585
resile1641
shirk1778
renegea1849
slink1853
welsh1870
to throw over1891
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 571/1 I go backe from my worde that I have sayd, je me desdis.
1543 T. Becon Inuectyue agenst Swearing f. liiii The kynge, because he wold not go backe of his worde, suffered the holy Prophet of God to be slayne.
1639 W. Balcanquhall Large Declar. Tumults Scotl. 423 Our Royall intentions..are to assure Our subjects, that..their faults and disloyall courses shall not make Us goe backe from any thing which We have promised.
1681 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. I iii. 191 For any man to promise what he intends not to perform, or to go back from his Promise when he lawfully may and can perform it, is an Act of unjust Rapine.
1704 Duke of Marlborough Let. 9 Mar. in Lett. & Disp. (1845) I. 244 Her Majesty can't go back from what she has promised.
1754 A. Berthelson Eng. & Danish Dict. at Word To fail of ones word, to go back from ones words, at bryde sit lösste, ey at holde sine ord.
1888 R. A. King Leal Lass II. iv. 79 If Gower went back of his promise.
1903 A. Lang Crimson Fairy Bk. 132 The king could not go back from his word.
b. to go back on (also upon).
(a) colloquial (originally U.S.). To prove faithless or disloyal to (a person); to betray. Now rare.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > betrayal > betray [verb (transitive)]
sellc950
forredea1000
belewec1000
trechec1230
betrayc1275
trayc1275
wrayc1275
traise1320
trechetc1330
betradec1375
betraisec1386
bewray1535
betrantc1540
boil1602
reveal1640
peacha1689
bridge1819
to go back on (also upon)1859
to sell (a person) down the river1921
1859 G. W. Matsell Vocabulum 38 He won't go back on the cove; he is staunch.
1877 Scribner's Monthly Sept. 686/1 ‘Ye've went back on me,’ she said under her breath again.
1883 Liverpool Daily Post 22 Jan. Some member of the secret organisation has gone back on his comrades.
1904 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. 17 I wouldn't have gone back on her for a desertful of Dutchmen.
1932 A. Waugh Thirteen Such Years iii. 127 Would not to go back upon her now be to go back upon everything that war had stood for?
(b) To break (a promise); to renege on (an agreement, decision, etc.). Frequently in to go back on one's word. Cf. sense 2a.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > unfaithfulness > be unfaithful to [verb (transitive)] > break (a promise or agreement)
breakOE
abreakOE
false1303
violate?a1475
unpromise1583
to go back on1862
1862 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 106 He could not well go back upon his implied assent.
1872 H. Foster ‘Favorite Clown’ Songster 43 I'll never go back on my word.
1882 B. Harte Flip, & Found at Blazing Star 62 Don't go back on your promise.
1907 Outlook 22 June 820/1 He was reserving the liberty to go back on his decision.
1922 Fortn. Rev. 1 Feb. 351 Nobody shall say that I go back upon my word.
1960 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 26 Mar. 942/1 It is disappointing to witness the Government attempting to go back on a promise.
2002 Times of India 12/1 Promises he has made and gone back upon.
2011 Daily Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 14 Feb. 15 Leaders of the pro-democracy movement..said..that they would hold more protests if the army went back on its word.
3. intransitive. To cast one's mind back; to look back in time.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > [verb (intransitive)] > go back in time
recourse1561
to go back1587
to run up1609
to put (also set, turn, etc.) back the clock1623
recedea1681
amount1714
to put (also set, turn, etc.) the clock back1745
remount1777
mount1788
retrograde1797
to throw back1855
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxiv. 412 If we goe backe [Fr. reculons] from the tyme of the setting foorth of the lawe of Moyses; what haue the Heathen of that tyme to set against it?
1644 T. Edwards Antapologia 40 The present age hath Divines in England to compare with them..so as you needed not to have gone backe to the ages past.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. i. §12 The further we go back in history, the fuller the world was of Deities.
1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman Introd. 3 Go back to Elder Times, and Ages past.
1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric II. xxxviii. 314 In order to explore the rise of Poetry..we must go back to the age of hunters and of shepherds.
1850 R. Bell Ladder of Gold I. i. ii. 19 He went back to his childhood.
1871 Ladies' Repository Oct. 265/1 My thoughts go back years and years to the time when the streets were lanes.
1936 Rotarian May 7/1 If we want to get at the real roots of our social upheaval, we must go back to the Machine Age itself.
1989 D. E. Abrahamson Challenge Global Warming i. 15 One must go back in time 5 to 15 million years to the late Tertiary to find a time that was 3 or 4 warmer than now.
2007 Irish Farmers' Jrnl. 29 Sept. (Suppl.) 34/3 Go back to the early '70s in Ireland..and women working in the Civil Service had to leave work when they married.
4. intransitive. Agriculture. Of an animal, building, or land: to deteriorate.
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1641 H. Best Rural Econ. Yorks. (1857) 12 Sheepe..will sattle and goe backe extreamely for the space of a weeke.
1789 J. Bonner Bee-master's Compan. vi. 36 The Queen had received something like her form, but had gone back again.
1833 Rep. Select Comm. Agric. 98 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 612) V. 1 With regard to the condition of the farm-buildings, have they gone back at all?—No; the landlord keeps them in repair generally.
1869 Farmer's Mag. July 84/1 The sheep in consequence of wet and cold have ‘gone back in condition’.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Apr. 389/2 Late autumn is a vital time for hoggets and at this period they are watched carefully to see that they do not ‘go back’.
1971 ‘S. Smith’ Grave Affair vii. 103 The property had deteriorated. The garden had ‘gone back’; unpruned, the fruit trees had almost ceased to bear.
2003 Weekly Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 1 Oct. 95 They decided to sell them before they went back in condition, and so all of the stock looked pretty good.
5. intransitive.
a. To extend back in time; to date back.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > originate, derive, or arise [verb (intransitive)] > derive or go back
refer?1406
remount1612
to go back1771
trace1876
stem1937
1771 R. Colvill Caledonian Heroine (ed. 2) 11 (note) The records of their prowess and chivalry goes back to the wars of Fingal and Lochlin.
1785 European Mag. Oct. 244/1 This last emblem..goes back to the very original of the Scythians.
1843 T. P. Thompson Exercises IV. 367 Toryism..is not a thing of modern date, but goes back to the earliest histories.
1876 Cincinnati Lancet & Observer Aug. 703 The commencement of the malady goes back ten years ago.
1903 A. B. Davidson & J. A. Paterson Old Test. Prophecy (1904) vi. 65 That the conflict goes far back, we know for certain.
1952 Life 1 Dec. 129/2 This interest in ‘character’ goes a long way back.
1989 B. Palmer Intervention in Caribbean i. 12 The origins of the 1965 Dominican revolution go back to the early 1900s.
2011 Wall St. Jrnl. 5 Apr. d2/2 Some short sleepers say their sleep patterns go back to childhood.
b. To extend backwards in space. Also with complement: to extend backwards for a specified distance.
ΚΠ
1826 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 16 Sept. 709 Sometimes the slope is very gentle, and the arable lands go back very far.
1892 Eng. Illustr. Mag. 10 45 The cavity goes back some fourteen inches.
1932 E. Ruess Let. 20 June in W. L. Rusho Everett Ruess (1983) iv. 71 I found an interesting cave dwelling in Rockslide Canyon. Only two rooms were visible from below, but the lower one went back fifty feet.
1982 H. S. Becker Art Worlds x. 317 Stereographs often..used a long, slanting line which went far back into the distance.
2009 S. Taylor Unembedded v. 105 The tiered garden went back about six metres.
c. colloquial (originally U.S.). Of two or more people: to have known each other for a considerable period; to share a friendship or relationship which extends back (over a specified period).
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1944 D. Runyon in Lowell (Mass.) Sun 10 Nov. 23/3 Frank and I go back a long way on Broadway together.
1969 Life 26 Sept. 59/1 He and I go way back. Used to go hunting together.
1978 Jet 16 Feb. 31 Aside from being a good photographer he's a good friend. We go back many years.
1989 T. Ferguson Kinkajou ii. i. 110 We go back to schooldays.
2011 Daily News (Jacksonville, N. Carolina) 15 July 11/1 Ray and I go back a long way together, but I must disagree with him regarding energy.
6. intransitive. U.S. to go back of: to question or examine something already accepted or determined; to look beyond; = to go behind —— at Phrasal verbs 2.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > re-examination > re-examine [verb (transitive)]
revisit1525
review1576
re-examine1593
resurvey1609
rehearse1700
reinspect1777
reinvestigate1802
to go back of1824
re-run1859
revet1940
recheck1962
1824 D. Chipman Rep. Supreme Court Vermont 1 310 He cannot go back of the judgment, or finding of the Court.
1890 E. H. Griffin in Science 14 Feb. 104 The public..ought not to be compelled to go back of academic titles to find out what they mean.
1902 C. H. Cooley Human Nature & Social Order v. 168 A little child thinks of and tries to elicit certain visible or audible phenomena, and does not go back of them.
1938 R. S. Kuykendall Hawaiian Kingdom I. xiii. 206 To understand the affair in its full significance it is necessary to go back of the immediate occasion..and to look at the background of obscure origins and general causes.
1981 A. Berndtson Power, Form, & Mind 271 There is no requirement..to go back of an eternal cause.
7. intransitive. Biology. To revert to an ancestral or wild type. Now rare.
ΚΠ
1857 C. Darwin Let. Nov. in Corr. (1990) VI. 484 I can understand on no other view the way in which crossed forms go back to so large an extent to ancestral forms.
1930 G. R. de Beer Embryol. & Evol. xv. 104 But does this mean that the abnormal horse with extra fingers has ‘gone back’ to an ancestral type?
2007 M. Godinot in M. J. Ravosa & M. Dagosto Primate Origins 92 Even with the possible complete loss of the crest (which would be coded as a ‘reversion’), there is in fact no reversion of the whole structure, no going back to an ancestral morphology.
8. intransitive. U.S. Bridge. To double a bid which an opponent has already doubled; = redouble v.1 3. Now disused.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > play bridge [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics > bid > types of bid
overbid1887
double1894
redouble1894
to go back1900
pre-empt1913
rebid1914
S.O.S.1926
overcall1927
cue-bid1932
psych1932
to sign off1932
reverse1939
sacrifice1952
to pass out1959
stop1959
underbid1974
under-call-
1900 R. F. Foster Bridge Man. 60 When a declaration has been gone over by the adversaries, the maker of the trump has the first say about going back.
1907 R. F. Foster Bridge 16 If either the eldest hand or the pone doubles, it is the privilege of the player who named the trump to double him again, the usual expression being; ‘I go back’.
1920 R. F. Foster Auction made Easy 111 Going back, redoubling.
 to go backward
intransitive. To change for the worse, deteriorate; to decline in prosperity. Cf. to go backwards at Phrasal verbs 1.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > be in adversity [verb (intransitive)] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition
afalleOE
wanec1000
fallOE
ebba1420
to go backward?a1425
to go down?1440
decay1483
sink?a1513
delapsea1530
reel1529
decline1530
to go backwards1562
rue1576
droop1577
ruina1600
set1607
lapse1641
to lose ground1647
to go to pigs and whistles1794
to come (also go) down in the world1819
to peg out1852
to lose hold, one's balance1877
to go under1879
toboggan1887
slip1930
to turn down1936
a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 1810 (MED) Þe shrewes..þat among vs her beoþ Þat euere goþ a-bakward, and þe leng þe worse y-þeoþ.]
?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 119 Þei goon bacward and wolen not amenden hem.
1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 147 To Ga bakwarde, retrogradi.
1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. gvii As longe as it doth prosper, The realme goeth backwarde never, In stabill felicite perseverynge.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 571/1 I go backwarde, I fall in dette or behynde hande.
1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. iv. xxvi. f. 145v The hope and prowesse of the dominion of the English began much to decaye and go backeward.
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 132 They..looke vpon men, and matters with an evill eie, and are best pleased when thinges goe backward.
1682 A. Behn City-heiress ii. ii. 17 Things go backward with me.
1775 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. 32 Those [Artists]..have..not only ceased to advance, and improve in their performance but have gone backward.
1816 Parl. Deb. 1st. Ser. 32 994/1 Is the process of cultivation and population in Canada to stop or to go backward?
1876 Fortn. Rev. 1 July 94 Your argument..is simply that the human kind have utterly gone backward since the statue was carved.
1932 Rotarian July 7/1 When the improvements are compared with those in the world around us, the railroad seems to have gone backward.
1998 K. K. Prah Beyond Color Line 1 By and large, Africa over the period has gone backward.
 to go backwards
intransitive. = to go backward at Phrasal verbs 1.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > be in adversity [verb (intransitive)] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition
afalleOE
wanec1000
fallOE
ebba1420
to go backward?a1425
to go down?1440
decay1483
sink?a1513
delapsea1530
reel1529
decline1530
to go backwards1562
rue1576
droop1577
ruina1600
set1607
lapse1641
to lose ground1647
to go to pigs and whistles1794
to come (also go) down in the world1819
to peg out1852
to lose hold, one's balance1877
to go under1879
toboggan1887
slip1930
to turn down1936
1562 tr. J. Jewel Apol. Church Eng. f. 24 Euill men there goe forewardes, good men go backwards [L. deficiunt].
1615 W. Smith Hector of Germany sig. Ev All things goe Backwards, that should bode vs good.
1692 J. Locke Some Considerations Lowering Interest 120 Landed Men..accommodating their Expences to their Income, keep themselves from going backwards in the World.
1712 N. Spinckes Sick Man Visited 146 I doubt he goes backwards in the World.
1795 Tribune 30 May 261 Even the mind..is observed to go backwards again towards decay.
1853 E. C. Gaskell Ruth II. iii. 97 The upshot was, people paid their debts better; ay, ay! we'n gone backwards, and we thinken we'n gone forrards.
1889 Amer. Catholic Q. Rev. Oct. 639 The question has been asked..whether the country has morally improved or gone backwards since the days of Washington.
1916 Domest. Engin. 28 Oct. 113/1 You have got to either bring your work up to a higher quality standard..or go backwards.
1995 P. Saunders Capitalism ii. 35 Many of them [sc. European colonies] have failed to make much economic progress since they became independent states, and some seem to have gone backwards.
 to go before
1. intransitive.
a. To move or travel ahead or in advance. Cf. before-go vb. (a) at before adv., prep., conj., and n. Compounds 3. Now literary and rare.
ΚΠ
OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) i. xii. 88 Gað ge beforon; ic eow cume æfter.
c1430 N. Love Mirror Blessed Life (Brasenose e.9) (1908) 289 The Archaungel Mychael, prouoste of paradys, goynge bifore, tolde the blessid court of heuene that oure lorde Jesu was comynge.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccviiv The Erle of Warwicke..determined..to go before with part of the nauie.
1591 A. Colynet True Hist. Ciuill Warres France viii. 491 The King with part of his armie went before, with commaundement to the rest to follow after.
1638 A. Hodges tr. Achilles Tatius Loves of Clitophon & Leucippe iv. 109 By this meanes the old men going before with these emblemes of peace, might shrewd the armed men behind them.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors iii. 128 The Clark goes before carrying the Image of St. Iohn.
a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1714) 81 Next morning John Rance and I set out, and when we were come to the End of the Town, we agreed, that he should go before, and knock at the great Gate.
1791 Edwy I. v. 139 A herald went before, and announced our approach.
1864 L. M. Alcott Moods xvi. 211 Where is Adam? Has he gone before, or been inveigled into staying?
1995 U. A. Fanthorpe Safe as Houses 19 A servant, a man beneath us, who washes our feet, Who goes before to try out the hard things first, Who opens gates so we can go easily through.
b. Chiefly literary and poetic. To die (with the implicit notion of going to an afterlife in advance of a living person or people). Now rare.
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the world > life > death > manner of death > die in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > die before
to go before1553
predecease1681
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique i. f. 39v As the other are gone before, either to heauen or elles to hell: so shall oure frendes and kinsfolke folowe after.
1591 L. Wright Pilgrimage to Paradise iv. 11 All must follow the daunce of death. Many are gone before: the rest must followe after: when God doth call nature must obey.
1616 B. Jonson Epigrammes xxxiii, in Wks. I. 777 Thou art but gone before, Whither the world must follow.
1679 P. Henry Let. in W. Bates Acct. Life & Death of Philip Henry (1698) x. 236 Your Children are not lost, but gone before, a little before, whither you your selves are hastning after.
1688 J. Barker Poet. Recreations i. 68 My dearest Brother, who is gone before, Half way will meet me in the Air, or more.
1779 Lady's Mag. Jan. 46/2 Then, weeping parents, give your sorrows o'er, Your children are not lost, but gone before.
1819 S. Rogers Human Life 61 Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves—not dead—but gone before.
1832 J. F. Cooper Heidenmauer II. vii. 90 Bethink thee of those who have gone before. Hast already forgotten thy visit to the tombs of thy family?
1999 M. B. Pratt Walking back up Depot St. 7 Men and women remembered another kind of night Spent on their knees beside their mother's graves, The air thick with cries and the spirits of those Who had gone before.
2. intransitive. To precede in time or order.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > going first or in front > go first or in front [verb (intransitive)]
foregoc825
to go beforec1225
preamble1402
to beat a path1589
to lead the waya1593
preambulate1598
anteambulate1623
antecede1628
to lead the van1697
to take the (or a) lead1768
lead1798
to lead off1806
the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > occur earlier or go before [verb (intransitive)]
precede?a1425
prevent1542
to go before1585
anticipate1588
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > preceding or following in order > precede or follow in order [verb (intransitive)] > precede in order
to go before1585
c1225 (?c1200) Sawles Warde (Royal) (1938) 40 (MED) Þet wit ga euer biuore ant teache wil efter him to al þet he dihteð & demeð to donne.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) 83 (MED) Euere gede ðe dai biforn, Siðen ðat newe werld was boren.
c1410 tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 193 Of whos ende and passing forþ [L. exitu] it is expressid in þinges þat gooþ bifore.
1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. clv (heading) A compendious rehersall of that which goeth before.
1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xii. 188 We learne in the text that goeth before in this chapter, that [etc.].
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. i. 95 Gather the sequell by that went before . View more context for this quotation
a1656 J. Ussher 18 Serm. (1660) 119 'Tis not the last blow that kills the man, but every blow that goes before, makes way unto it.
1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric I. xx. 425 This last sentence..is no more than an unnecessary recapitulation of what had gone before.
a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) III. x. 215 This little circumstance seemed the completion of all that had gone before . View more context for this quotation
a1866 W. Lindsay Lect. on Epist. Hebrews (1867) II. xiii. 323 The connection of this verse with what goes before has been differently estimated.
1910 E. C. Foster Starting to Teach xii. 112 The point of contact for the new lesson will frequently be a review of the lesson which went before.
1943 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 37 17 Let us..in the hard years that lie ahead, outmaster the masters of our science who have gone before.
2010 Vanity Fair Aug. 161/3 Postmodernism..seems in hindsight like a frail fig leaf attempting to cover up the sins of what had gone before.
 to go by
1. intransitive. To move, walk, or travel past, to pass. Also of time or a period of time: to pass, elapse (cf. senses at main sense 49).
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > pass by
passc1330
to go byc1449
hove1535
forpass1590
hit1911
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (intransitive)] > move past
apassc1330
passc1330
to pass by ——c1395
to go byc1449
to come byc1450
to go (also flow, run, etc.) past1542
the world > time > [verb (intransitive)]
overgoeOE
agoeOE
goOE
forthgoOE
runOE
overdrivea1275
farea1325
overmetea1325
walka1325
passc1330
slidec1374
yern1377
to pass overa1382
wastec1385
waive1390
to pass awaya1400
overseyc1400
drive?c1450
to drive ona1470
slevea1510
to roll awaya1522
to roll overa1522
to wear out, forth1525
flit1574
to pass on1574
to run on1578
overhie1582
wear1597
overslip1607
spend1607
travel1609
to go bya1616
elapsea1644
to come round1650
efflux1660
to roll round1684
lapse1702
roll1731
to roll around1769
to roll by1790
transpire1824
to come around1829
tide1835
elabe1837
tick1937
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 216 The seid solempne ȝeerli goyng bi ij. tymes in ech ȝeer.
?1507 Ballad of Kynd Kittok in W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen sig. b.v Drink with my guddame as ȝe ga by.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. xxxix/2 After they passed nat ferre of fro Berwyke, and went by without any assaut gyueng.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 356 The time goes by: Away. View more context for this quotation
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 66 They tooke no notice of vs, but let vs goe by without any Ceremonie.
1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. xii. 72 A footway crossing the church-yard close by the side of his grave,—not a passenger goes by without stopping to cast a look upon it.
1785 L. Chambaud & J. B. Robinet A. Boyer's New Dict. II. 235/2 The time goes by, Le temps s'ecoule.
1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. ix. 586 They see in those good old times which are now gone by, many sources of consolation.
1885 Mag. Art Sept. 463/2 They..let no day go by without its jest.
1901 J. P. Mowbray Journey to Nature (1903) xi. 137 There was nobody going by.
1968 H. S. Thompson Let. 3 Jan. in Fear & Loathing in Amer. (2000) 12 Not a day goes by without somebody claiming that I let them down, and of course they're all right.
2008 N. Wimmer tr. R. Bolaño 2666 iii. 239 All the taxis that went by had fares.
2. intransitive. To pass unnoticed or without comment, challenge, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore [verb (intransitive)] > escape attention
to go by1508
pass1607
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (intransitive)] > fail to take advantage > pass by unused
overslipa1470
to go by1508
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. diiv Quhan on fortone quhelmys ye quheil thair gais grace by.
1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. Q The Goddesse of al iust reuenge, Who let no blame go by.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. ii. 256 Sir, sir, the first's for me, let her go by . View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. ii. 41 Mine were the verie Cipher of a Function To fine the faults, whose fine stands in record, And let goe by the Actor. View more context for this quotation
1763 R. Lloyd in St. James's Mag. Oct. 106 It were kind..to make Allowance for the merit's sake; And when such beauties fill the eye, To let the blemishes go by.
1837 W. G. Simms Martin Faber I. i. 17 Whatever I did or said..went by without notice.
1872 B. Harte Prose & Poetry I. 235 To have let ‘bigger things’ go by, and to be taken in by this cheap trick..is what gets me.
1917 Druggist's Circular Oct. 537/1 A few more resolutions went by without discussion.
1992 E. Hoagland Balancing Acts 147 A photograph..was flashed on a screen. I was asleep..and let it go by.
2004 Sun (Nexis) 6 Nov. (Sport section) 8 The error was pointed out but wee Gordon was gracious enough to let it go by.
 to go down
1. intransitive.
a. To move or pass to a lower place or position, or one regarded as lower; to descend (from, †of). Cf. to go adown at Phrasal verbs 1.See also to go down on one's knees at knee n. 3a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)]
styc825
astyc975
alightOE
to fall adownOE
hieldc1275
downcomea1300
sink?a1300
avalec1374
to go downa1375
to come downc1380
dipc1390
descenda1393
clinea1400
declinea1400
downc1400
inclinec1400
vailc1400
fallc1440
devall1477
condescendc1485
to get down1567
lower1575
dismount1579
to fall down1632
down?1701
demount1837
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 811 Þanne a-ros sche raddely..& gan doun..in-to þe gardin.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms cvi. 23 That gon doun the se in shipis.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 5050 And he gose doun be grece a-gayn to his tentis.
a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (BL Add. 9066) (1879) 328 Whan the Emperour vndirstode that, he went downe of his horse.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cvv His father..whiche was gone doune to dinner.
1642 J. Vicars God in Mount 97 To go down to York thereby to make the Parliament.
1673 M. Carleton Mem. Madam Charlton 10 After several treats in Town, she..goes down to Gravesend.
1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 75 I went down into the Boat with the other Surgeons.
1739 J. Campbell Trav. of Edward Brown 428 She was gone down to Leicestershire to settle her Affairs when my Letter came.
1754 G. G. Beekman Let. 30 Sept. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 224 He went down from here with his Sloop to the narrows.
1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 17/2 Instead of taking his hint, and going down to the cabin, I remained upon deck.
1859 Friend of Youth & Children's Mag. 254 It was not long before he..wanted to go down to the brook.
1973 ‘D. Jordan’ Nile Green xxxii. 154 We went down on to the quay to eat fish and drink retsina.
2005 E. J. Weiner What goes Up xxix. 426 I..went down in the elevator to walk over to the stock exchange.
b. Of the sun: to sink below the horizon, to set. Also of the moon and other celestial objects. Cf. to go adown at Phrasal verbs 1.Frequently in poetic and figurative contexts, as heralding the end of the day and the approach of darkness.
ΚΠ
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xv. 12 Whenn þe sonne was gone doun [L. occumberet]: feerd fell vpon Abram.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6800 (MED) Ar sun ga dun þat ilk dai.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 327 In the northe parte of that cuntre the son goethe not down in the solstice of somer.
1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Celebr. Holye Communion f. xcii Let not the Sunne go doune vpon your wrathe.
1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1664) 197 Your after-noon will wear short, and your sun fall low and goe down.
1784 C. Eversfield Jrnl. Journey from Bassora to Bagdad 85 And the moon at this time going down, we here took, a few hours repose.
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc vi. 256 Oh! woe it is to think So many men shall never see the sun Go down!
1895 T. Hardy Jude i. v. 35 The sun was going down, and the full moon was rising simultaneously behind the woods in the opposite quarter.
1943 W. Stegner Big Rock Candy Mountain i. 23 The sun went down redly behind a ridge of scattered buttes.
2009 C. Isbell & A. Pavia Rabbits for Dummies (ed. 2) viii. 125 Never keep your rabbit in his run after the sun goes down because predators are more likely to lurk at dusk.
c. To decrease or fall in number, quantity, value, price, or degree.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > decrease in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (intransitive)]
littleOE
setc1000
wanzec1175
lessc1225
allayc1275
wane1297
slaken1303
disincreasec1374
slakec1380
decrease1382
debatea1400
unwaxa1400
wastea1400
adminishc1400
lessenc1400
imminish14..
aslakec1405
minish?a1425
assuagec1430
shrinkc1449
to let down1486
decay1489
diminish1520
fall1523
rebate1540
batea1542
to come down1548
abate1560
stoop1572
pine1580
slack1580
scanten1585
shrivel1588
decrew1596
remit1629
contract1648
subside1680
lower1697
relax1701
drop1730
to take off1776
to run down1792
reduce1798
recede1810
to run off1816
to go down1823
attenuatea1834
ease1876
downscale1945
1823 Parl. Deb. 2nd ser. 7 1470 The corn producers undersold each other; the prices went down.
1890 Temple Bar June 156 I do not think he cares a straw whether your temperature goes up or down.
1905 Jrnl. Instit. Brewing 11 424 The amount went down to 36 parts per 100,000.
1957 Changing Times Feb. 26/1 National farm income went down 3.2%.
1996 Infoworld 26 Aug. 41 (advt.) Productivity will go up, as frustration levels go down.
2013 T. Pynchon Bleeding Edge v. 48 Happy hour begins and the price of..drinks goes down to $2.50.
2. intransitive (a) To be overthrown or defeated; to fall before a conqueror or conquering force. Cf. to go adown at Phrasal verbs 1. (b) In later use frequently in sporting contexts: to be beaten, or to be put in a losing position, by the opposition; Cricket (of a wicket) to be taken (cf. 8a).
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > defeat > be defeated [verb (intransitive)]
to have (also get) the worsec1275
leesec1300
to lick the dust, the earth1382
to get (also have) the waura1393
to go downa1400
to go away (also flee) with the worsea1413
to have the worsta1470
to go to (also unto) the worse1485
to go by the worse (also worst)1528
to have the overthrow1536
lose1548
tine1681
a1400 (?a1350) Seege Troye (Egerton) (1927) l. 1074 On either side mony folk goþ doun.
1537 J. Husee Let. 14 Dec. in State Papers Henry VIII (P.R.O.: SP 1/127) f. 62 The abbay of Warden is suppressid, and dyuers others ar namyd to goo downe.
1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xviii. xxiii. 707 Hee is a souldiour..therefore will hee reare and teare, downe goe whole Citties before him.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. 0. 34 The nimble Gunner With Lynstock now the diuellish Cannon touches..And downe goes all before them. View more context for this quotation
1740 London Evening Post 10 July London went in, and got seventy in the second Hands, and two Wickets to go down, Time being out.
1788 World 25 Aug. 3/2 Hampshire won, with 5 Wickets to go down.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ii. §4. 71 Horse and man went down before his lance at Val-ès-dunes.
1878 Scribner's Monthly 15 143/1 Fanaticism, though brilliant in its first efforts, went down before discipline.
1892 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 151 98/1 Five of the best bats in England went down before Spofforth's bowling.
1918 Building Age Jan. 62/2 Stores..of that type [sc. general stores]..must reform, or go down before the power of the mail-order catalog.
1932 Michiganensian 36 173 St. Xavier of Cincinnati went down 1-0 under the three-hit pitching of Compton.
1973 E. U. Crosby & C. R. Webb Past as Prol. I. i. i. 19 Less than fifty years later..Babylon itself went down before the might of the new Persian state of Cyrus.
2012 Dumfries & Galloway Standard (Nexis) 7 Nov. 38 Creetown..eventually went down by three goals to two.
3. intransitive.
a. To change for the worse, deteriorate; to decline in health or prosperity; to collapse or die. See also to go down in the world at world n. Phrases 16d.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > adversity > be in adversity [verb (intransitive)] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition
afalleOE
wanec1000
fallOE
ebba1420
to go backward?a1425
to go down?1440
decay1483
sink?a1513
delapsea1530
reel1529
decline1530
to go backwards1562
rue1576
droop1577
ruina1600
set1607
lapse1641
to lose ground1647
to go to pigs and whistles1794
to come (also go) down in the world1819
to peg out1852
to lose hold, one's balance1877
to go under1879
toboggan1887
slip1930
to turn down1936
the world > health and disease > ill health > be in ill health [verb (intransitive)] > be weak > become weak
of-fall?a1200
fail?c1225
wastea1300
languisha1325
defail1340
languora1375
defaulta1382
wastea1387
faintc1450
mortifyc1475
hink?a1500
traik?a1513
droopc1540
unquick1595
macerate1598
dodder1617
lachanize1623
smartle1673
break1726
go1748
sink1780
wilt1787
falter1799
weaken1886
to go down1892
to go out of curl1924
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. l. 210 A novel vyne vp gooth by diligence As fast as hit gooth doun [L. incurrit] by negligence.
?1548 J. Bale Image Bothe Churches (new ed.) iii. sig. Cc.v In the fall certaynelye of theyr whoryshe churche, wyll they stande afarre of. They wyll be none of hers whan they se her go doun, least they should go doun with her.
1562 in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 66 Item for the kylne whiche ys In decay And Clean goynedovne.
1603 A. Dent Ruine of Rome xiv. 214 As the dominion of the Popes goeth downe, so also their worship and religion, goeth downe with it.
1653 J. Naylor Let. in S. Buttivant Brief Disc. Antichrist 12 When he could not prevail, he went down in a rage.
1710 J. Swift Let. 10 Oct. (1768) IV. vi. 46 He goes down in a rage, shoots his wife through the head, then falls on his sword.
1791 C. Reeve School for Widows II. viii. 270 She was going down to the grave, and did not wish to live.
a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) viii. 274 If the spirit of a nation goes down, its poetry will go down with it.
1892 M. E. Wilkins Jane Field 10 Well, I hope Lois ain't goin' down. I heard she looked dreadful.
1911 A. Bennett Hilda Lessways ii. ii. 153 Calder Street's going down—it's getting more and more of a slum.
1968 K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 41 The air remained as dry as ever. On some of the stations the cattle were going down; all the earth tanks were dry.
2007 L. Hodgkinson Compl. Guide Renovating & Improving your Prop. (ed. 2) vii. 14 The presence of a Lidl's might indicate the area is going down, whereas a Waitrose..means that the yuppies are moving in.
b. To become ill with a specified illness or disease. Cf. to come down 12 at come v. Phrasal verbs 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > cause to be ill [verb (transitive)] > catch illness
catcha1393
enticec1400
engender1525
get1527
to take up1629
to come down1837
to pick up1889
start1891
to go down1895
1895 Vet. Jrnl. May 365 He had charge of the best shorthorn herd in his district and he would guarantee they did not go down with milk fever.
1904 W. Reed et al. Rep. Origin & Spread Typhoid Fever during Spanish War I. 447/1 Company A was the first..to go down with typhoid fever.
1953 ‘N. Shute’ In Wet 4 I went down with a severe attack of malaria.
2001 J. Le Fanu They don't know what's Wrong ix. 146 It really felt as though I was going down with flu.
4. intransitive.
a. Of wind, a stormy sea, etc.: to subside, abate.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > fine weather > [verb (intransitive)] > become calm (of weather or the elements)
calm1399
falla1400
lown?a1600
to fall calm1601
serenify1612
subside1680
lin1693
flat1748
flatten1748
lull1808
to go down1873
a1450 (?c1430) J. Lydgate Daunce Machabree (Huntington) (1931) l. 448 Wyndes grete gon doune with litel reyne.
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) viii. f. 95v The Easterne wind went downe & flakes of foggie Clouds gan show.
1635 L. Foxe North-west Fox sig. Bb4v The wind going downe with Sol and in the night up again.
1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. ii. i. 18 My boyling passions settle and goe down.
1791 G. Mortimer Observ. & Remarks Voy. Islands 69 The violence of the gale was somewhat abated; but the sea went down but little, and ran very cross and confused.
1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack x. 62 The sea had gone down.
1873 W. Black Princess of Thule iv. 67 The wind had altogether gone down.
1919 St. Nicholas Apr. 518/1 As soon as the wind and the waves went down, the otters would return to deep water.
1929 Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 153/1 They found shelter in a deserted shack, where they huddled three days foodless till the storm went down.
2006 T. N. Lundrigan Bird in Hand ii. 22 I had a big sheepskin coat for the cold, plenty of gas, and I expected the wind to go down at sunset.
b. Of something swollen or inflated: to reduce in size.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > become reduced in size or extent [verb (intransitive)] > deflate
to go down1582
subside1634
deflate1902
1582 P. Levens Right Profitable Bk. All Disseases 95 Take centory, rosemary, wormewood, horehound,..and let the sick taste thereof, and it shal cause the postume to go downe.
1683 S. Haworth True Method Curing Consumptions xix. 139 About a Month ago his Ankles began to swell, and they continue to do so still at Night,..but the Swelling goes down in the Morning.
1726 N. B. Philippos Farrier's & Horseman's Dict. 133/1 Ride the Horse daily..up to the Belly in deep running Water..to allay the Heat of his Members, till the Swellings goes down.
1878 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. Jan. 272 The swelling in the left leg went down, but the abdominal had increased.
1985 L. St. Clair Robson Ride the Wind xxxvi. 349 The small black buffalo gnats... left ugly, pus-filled welts that took days to go down.
2004 Daily Tel. 21 May 25/1 Your eyes swell up... The swelling does not go down for two or three weeks.
5. intransitive.
a. Of a boat or other vessel, or those on board: to sink. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > sink > in liquid
sinkOE
drench1297
drenklec1330
to go downa1475
replunge1611
submerge1652
swamp1795
to go under1820
a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 17508 He [sc. a whirlpool] devoureth..Al that peyseth or yiveth soun, To the botme yt goth doun.
1616 J. Davies Select Second Husband sig. F5v In the Deepe A Shippe goes downe, with ouerturned Keele; When ore a mounting Billow shee doth sweepe.
a1691 J. Flavell Faithful Narr. Sea-deliv. in Saint Indeed (1754) 180 Of 21 Persons that were first in the Ship, 5 went down with the Ship.
1768 J. Byron Narr. Patagonia 87 There ran such a sea, that we expected, every instant, the boat would go down.
1792 C. Dibdin Hannah Hewit I. 153 Walmesley and Hewit parted when the boat went down.
1827 ‘H. S. Van Dyk’ Gondola ii. 61 This here little brig an't the one as 'ud go down, whilst she could keep a small matter of timber together.
1874 Christian's Penny Mag. 10 New ser. 57 The Bonny Bess..had gone down in the darkness, and her little crew had gone down with her to their death.
1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim xiii. 160 The old ship went down all on a sudden with a lurch to starboard.
1964 in R. D. Abrahams Deep down in Jungle ii. iv. 115 Where wus you when the big Titanic went down?
1991 New Yorker 24 June 88/2 The publishers had gone down with all hands.
2002 I. H. Walton & J. Grimm Windjammers ix. 220 The lumber schooner Isaac G. Jenkins..went down with all hands in a severe blizzard on Lake Ontario.
b. Of an aircraft, spacecraft, etc.: to fall from the air, to crash.
ΚΠ
1859 Marion (Iowa) Herald 21 July In a few seconds the balloon went down with a full swoop upon the lake.
1917 N.Y. Times Current Hist.: European War XII. 80/2 The German airplane went down.., leaving a trail of smoke behind.
1942 Washington Post 28 Oct. 16 We sighted the transport plane. All three of us got squirts at him and he went down in flames.
1997 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 14 Apr. a9 When the Challenger (space shuttle) went down, a lot of engineers I hang out with played the videotape over and over again.
2012 Daily Tel. 24 Feb. 21/5 A helicopter went down at Camp Pendleton,..killing the two Marines on board.
6. intransitive. Frequently with adverbial complement or phrase.
a. Of food or drink: to be swallowed, go down the throat; to be capable of being swallowed.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [verb (intransitive)] > be swallowed
to go down1532
1532 R. Whittington tr. Erasmus De Ciuilitate Morun Puerilium sig. C2/2 If thou haue take any morsell that can nat go downe [L. deglutiri], it is maner to tourne thy heed & caste it priuely away.
1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 2 The deceitfull Phisition geueth sweete Syrropes, to make his poyson goe downe the smoother.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 595 Another..decks the cup, whiles wine goes downe.
1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. vi. i. sig. Mm7 A belief that the toothsome, would make the nutritive part go smoothly down.
1747 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 24/1 His hunger makes his bread go down Altho' it be both stale and brown.
1841 Med. Times 16 Jan. 184/1 He sometimes finds, in the midst of dinner, that his food will not go down.
1890 Illustr. Sporting & Dramatic News 31 May 372/1 I..want no extra inducement in the shape of sauce or pickle to make it go down.
1971 A. McCaffrey Ring of Fear ix. 224 Mrs. Garrison's notion of therapeutic food turned out to be raspberry sherbet, which went down easily, coolingly.
1994 C. Pike Midnight Club 89 Ilonka had a glass of water by her bed. The pill went down smooth.
b. To find acceptance (with a person); to be pleasing or agreeable; to be received (in a specified way).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being satisfactory > [verb (intransitive)]
sufficec1340
doa1450
servec1475
to go down1608
to pass (muster) in a crowd1711
to get by1897
1608 T. Dekker Lanthorne & Candle-light sig. H3 The woorst hors-flesh..does best goe downe with him.
1679 J. Dryden Troilus & Cressida Prol. sig. b4 The fulsome clench that nauseats the Town Wou'd from a Judge or Alderman go down.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. xix. 357 The grossest Absurdities..being but agreeable to such Principles, go down glibly, and are easily digested.
1734 H. Fielding Intrig. Chambermaid Epil. sig. A5v English is now below this learned Town, None but Italian Warblers will go down.
1738 E. A. Burgis Ann. Church IV. 187 These proceedings were differently relished: they went down well with the more moderate sort.
1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. iv. 64 A poet who would not go down among readers of the present day.
1885 W. E. Norris Adrian Vidal I. vii. 121 In fashion or out of fashion, they [sc. sensational novels] always pay and always go down with the public.
1927 Melody Maker Aug. 773/2 In the combination are two performers on musical saw, which novelty, says Mr. Haggleton, always goes down well with his audience.
1984 Texas Monthly Feb. 100/1 The theory behind happy talk is that it makes bad news go down better.
2007 T. French In the Woods 109 They were a decent family but kept themselves to themselves, which hadn't gone down very well.
7. intransitive.
a. To extend down to a point in space; (of a road, passage, etc.) to lead down. Also with complement: to extend down for a specified distance.
ΚΠ
1587 T. Churchyard Worthines of Wales sig. N2v The Rocke discends, beneath the auncient Towne, About the which, a stately wall goes downe.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage viii. xiv. 686 The hil..goes downe two hundred & fifty braces or yards.
1694 R. Blome tr. A. Le Grand Entire Body Philos. i. viii. iii. 269/1 The thick membran..hath 2 Holes, through which the ascending Hollow Vein, and the Gullet which goes down to the Stomach, do pass.
1743 R. Pococke Descr. East I. v. vi. 243 This well goes down towards the bottom of the pyramid.
1790 Edinb. Mag. Apr. 233/1 The mantle goes down below the knee.
1838 J. Abbott Rollo at Play 148 The path went down and crossed the brook.
1898 Trans. & Jrnl. Proc. Dumfriesshire & Galloway Nat. Hist. & Antiquarian Soc. 1896–7 69 It [sc. a portion of wall] is composed of ordinary stone and lime, and goes down for several feet.
1913 Motor Age 21 July 15/1 The western road goes down through Keene to the Massachusetts line.
1976 New Scientist 16 Sept. 589/2 The previous deepest sea-floor hole went down 5709 ft off Portugal.
2000 R. Coleman By-way Biking North York Moors iii. 21 Do not take the track that goes down towards the wood.
b. To extend or continue forward to a certain point in history or period of time.
ΚΠ
1688 R. Jenkin Historical Exam. Authority Councils 50 (margin) Walter de Hemingford's..Chronicon..goes down to Henry the Third's death.
1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. Thirty-nine Articles vi. 83 There is a continued Series of Books of their History, that goes down to the Babylonish Captivity.
1766 Gentleman's Mag. May 215/2 Camden published, in the reign of James VI, the first part of his Life of Elizabeth, which goes down to the year 1589.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XI. 27/1 The last series goes down to the fourth century.
1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 507/2 To these are added the fragments of an unknown continuator of Dion..which go down to the time of Constantine.
1890 Sat. Rev. 5 Apr. 422/2 Mr. Thornton's..sketch..goes down to the death of James II.
1962 F. Dvornik Slavs European Hist. & Civilization vii. 161 The Chronicle of Pulkava..only goes down to the year 1330.
1977 Jrnl. Amer. Acad. Relig. 45 82 This history of Israel, which goes down to the time of Alexander the Great, is in the tradition of the German school.
2005 J. Retsö Arabs in Antiq. xii. 331 Posidonius of Apamaea, whose world history, which went down to the year 86 BC.., is irretrievably lost.
8. intransitive.
a. Of a person or thing: to fall or be brought down by force; to be knocked or blown over.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > fall [verb (intransitive)] > with force or violence
dump1333
swapc1386
to shove downc1400
squat1587
to go down1697
spank1800
thwacka1851
to beat down1860
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > fall [verb (intransitive)] > fall down or from erect position
fallOE
to fall downc1175
torple?c1225
glidec1275
overthrowc1330
downfallc1350
swaya1400
reversea1470
twine1600
to go down1697
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (intransitive)] > bring to the ground or lay low
fellOE
to go down1697
1697 J. Vanbrugh Æsop: 2nd Pt. (ed. 2) 2 She was a pretty tight Frigat to look upon:..But the first Storm that blew, Down went the Mast.
1782 Scots Mag. Apr. 705/2 The wind..carried away the fore-sail. About a quarter of an hour afterwards..the quarter-boards went down with a crash.
1813 Sporting Mag. May 102/2 Gregson planted a right-handed hit on his adversary's throat, and he went down.
1896 Electr. Engineer 21 607 In many places the wires and a great many..poles went down.
1909 Cement Age July 27 The three spans of the bridge had gone down.
2010 C. Kelly Homecoming (2011) ix. 157 You're too young to remember the big storms in the 1920s... Several trees went down in the garden.
b. Originally U.S. Of a telephone or power network, a computer or computing service, etc.: to cease operating, stop working; to be switched off unexpectedly because of some fault.
ΚΠ
1911 Daily Rev. (Decatur, Illinois) 3 Apr. 10/7 The street car traffic was not delayed [by the storm] excepting for two or three times when the power went down for five or ten minutes.
1969 Computers & Automation Mar. 31/2 The batch-processing computer went ‘down’ at times, and the students had to wait for keypunches at peak periods.
1986 Micro Decision Oct. 48/2 If a server goes down for any reason—if someone kicks the power cable out, for example—the users attached to that server do not lose their work.
1999 C. Brookmyre One Fine Day in Middle of Night (2000) 165 Even if the main power goes down, there's a temporary back-up supply.
2007 C. Stross Halting State (2008) 261 All their suppliers' networks go down... And finally, all the Internet service providers..and cellcos go down.
9. intransitive. To be set down in writing; to be recorded or remembered. Cf. to go down in (also †to) history at history n. Phrases 1a.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > writing > state of having been written > be written [verb (intransitive)]
appearc1531
come1582
to go down1734
write1862
1734 Present State Republick Lett. 14 152 That Reverend and Learned Body..are bound..not to suffer any false Reports to go down to Posterity unreproved.
1735 H. Fielding Universal Gallant iv. 51 There is one thing which shall go down in my Pocket-book.
1883 Cambr. Staircase ii. 21 They would probably go down to posterity with more than an ordinary share of glory.
1888 B. L. Farjeon Miser Farebrother II. vii. 84 All this..went down on the account..and was debited against them.
1910 Masonic Voice Rev. Aug. 273/1 Aaron Burr went down as one of the greatest traitors in American political history.
1956 R. Galton & A. Simpson Hancock's Half-hour (1987) 56 Of course I keep a diary... Every little thing that happens in my life goes down in this book.
2006 B. Fritz & C. Murray Between Ropes iii. 145 Financially, 1997 went down as the worst year so far in company history.
10. intransitive. Of a light: to be dimmed or extinguished, esp. immediately prior to the start of a performance or show in a theatre, cinema, etc.
ΚΠ
1839 Terre Haute (Indiana) Enquirer 25 Dec. As the lights went down on shore, we were on our way down the river.
1870 Observer 18 Dec. 3/5 On the approach of the barber's ghost the lights went down.
1940 M. Dickens Mariana iii. 62 I'll take you to the flickers and hold your hand when the lights go down.
1988 M. Bradbury Unsent Lett. 57 Then the lights go down, and we are left with Old Man..sitting..at his desk.
2012 D. Park Light of Amsterdam xiv. 303 The lights went down but it was only the warm-up band.
11. intransitive. British. To leave university or college, esp. following graduation. Chiefly with reference to Oxford and Cambridge universities. Cf. to go up 11b at Phrasal verbs 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > educational administration > university administration > [verb (intransitive)] > leave
to come down1839
to go down1852
1852 C. A. Bristed Five Years Eng. University I. 86 After ‘division’ in the Michaelmas and Lent Terms, a student, who can assign a good plea for absence to the College authorities, may go down and take holiday for the rest of the time.
1861 J. A. Symonds Let. 4 Mar. (1967) I. 279 Another plan..is that I should go down myself next Term—take a Grace Term.
1883 Cambr. Staircase viii. 137 I am in college, and there I intend to remain till I go down.
1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. xii. 738 Guy Hazlewood had gone down and was away in Macedonia, trying to fulfil a Balliol precept to mix yourself up in the affairs of other nations or your own as much as possible.
1955 Times 12 May 14/3 From the time he went down from Cambridge until war broke out in 1914.
2007 B. L. Edwards C. S. Lewis 157 Jack urged Griffiths to read more philosophy after going down from Oxford.
12. intransitive. slang (originally U.S.). To perform oral sex (on a person).
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > oral sex > practise oral sex [verb (intransitive)]
gamahuche1880
to go downc1895
Frenchc1928
gobble1928
suck1928
plate1961
to sit on a person's face1968
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > oral sex > practise oral sex on or with [verb (transitive)]
gamahuche?1788
to go downc1895
gam1910
eat1927
Frenchc1928
suck1928
plate1961
c1895 There was a Girl in Lewiston Town in Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonogr. Recordings 1890s (2007) (transcript of song from CD) (O.E.D. Archive) There was a girl in Lewiston town, For a cigar she wouldn't go down.
1898 Pauline, Prima Donna vii. 147 Here I was in this strange woman's home, naked, in the most compromising position and being literally invited to ‘go down’ on her.
1914 in Jrnl. Hist. Sexuality (1995) 5 595 [The defendant]..is said to have practiced the infamy for more than nine years, being one who will ‘go down’ on another or will himself willingly and gladly submit to the outrage.
1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 96 They're still in love... He goes down on her and everything, and she loves him.
1974 K. Millett Flying (1975) i. 53 I do not want her body. Do not want to see it, caress it, go down on it.
2002 A. Cumming Tommy's Tale (2004) 269 He's also got..a pierced cock that Bobby says is like having the xylophone played on his fillings when he goes down on him.
13. intransitive. Cards.
a. Bridge. To fail to fulfil one's contract (sometimes by a specified number of tricks or points).
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > play bridge [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics
echo1885
peter1887
declare1895
false-card1902
finesse1902
to go over1902
to go down1905
switch1906
pass1908
exit1930
break1952
shoot1957
1905 ‘Cut-Cavendish’ Compl. Bridge Player 153 Let the finesse be made into the hand whence you would rather the lead sprung, in case of the finesse going down.
1933 A. G. Macdonell England, their England vi. 78 [He] had gone down 650 points above the line whereas he ought to have made two no-trumps.
1964 N. Squire Bidding at Bridge ii. 24 You may go down quite often in game contracts.
1997 E. Kantar Bridge for Dummies vii. 104 If you play a trump card early in the hand and remove the dummy's trump cards, you would not be able to trump your spade loser in the dummy, and you would go down.
b. In any of various card games: (of a person) to put one's card or cards on the table; to declare one's hand.
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1934 Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 35 131 To go down, to put one's hand down (as dummy).
1964 A. Wykes Gambling vii. 176 A player may declare his hand (‘go down’) when the unmatched cards in his hand count 10 or less.
2001 R. Russo Empire Falls (2002) 364 ‘I'm gonna go down with three.’ Horace seemed underwhelmed by this maneuver.
14. intransitive. slang. To be sent to prison.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > be imprisoned [verb (intransitive)]
wake1338
to lie by ita1644
to be in lumber1819
fall1874
to partake of (or enjoy) His (or Her) Majesty's hospitality1894
to go down1906
1906 C. E. B. Russell & L. M. Rigby Making of Criminal vi. 76 The charge against a lad for selling flowers in one of the main streets is followed..by his ‘going down’, as it is termed, for seven or fourteen days.
1906 C. E. B. Russell & L. M. Rigby Making of Criminal vi. 76 The same youth will ‘go down’ time after time, and become more reckless and indifferent with every repetition.
1920 E. Wallace Daffodil Myst. iii. 29 Twice Sam had gone down for a short term, and once for a long term of imprisonment.
1945 M. Allingham Coroner's Pidgin xvii. 142 He went down for eighteen months and is now in Italy pulling his weight, I believe. He's a crook, but not a traitor.
1964 M. Spillane Return of Hood i. 12 The fuzz would like me to go down.
2008 D. B. Frank Bull's Head 196 If he goes down for possession and distribution of illegal narcotics..where is she going to get her next fix?
15. intransitive. Esp. of a baby or child: to go or be put to bed, to go to sleep. Cf. to put down 12 at put v. Phrasal verbs 1.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > go to bed or retire to rest [verb (intransitive)]
to go to (one's) resteOE
to take (one's) restc1175
to go to bedc1275
to lie downc1275
reposec1485
down-lie1505
bed1635
to turn in1695
retire1696
lay1768
to go to roost1829
to turn or peak the flukes1851
kip1889
doss1896
to hit the hay1912
to hit the deck1918
to go down1922
to bunk down1940
to hit the sack1943
to sack out1946
to sack down1956
1922 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post-Crescent 14 Jan. 9/6 If you'll excuse me I'll go down for a nap.
1945 Progress Bull. (Rochester Child Health Inst., Rochester, Minn.) 1 F-viii:2 The average baby of eight months wakes at about 7:30 a.m... She goes down to sleep after supper and sleeps soundly all through the night.
1996 Granta Autumn 58 He'll wake, and you'll nurse, and by the time he goes down again, I'll be ready.
2009 A. Roth Ooh, Baby! ix. 125 We get so little time together these days, and I try to play with her before she goes down for the night.
16. intransitive. slang (originally and chiefly U.S., originally in African-American usage). To happen, occur.
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)]
becomec888
i-tidec888
falleOE
ywortheOE
i-limp975
belimpOE
i-timeOE
worthOE
tidea1131
goa1200
arearc1275
syec1275
betide1297
fere1297
risea1350
to come aboutc1350
overcomea1382
passa1393
comea1400
to come in (also to, on, etc.) placea1400
eschew?a1400
chevec1400
shapec1400
hold1462
to come (also go) to pass1481
proceed?1518
occura1522
bechance1527
overpass1530
sorta1535
succeed1537
adventurec1540
to fall toc1540
success1545
to fall forth1569
fadge1573
beword?1577
to fall in1578
happen1580
event1590
arrive1600
offer1601
grow1614
fudge1615
incur1626
evene1654
obvene1654
to take place1770
transpire1775
to go on1873
to show up1879
materialize1885
break1914
cook1932
to go down1946
1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues 374 Go down, happen.
1956 ‘B. Holiday’ & W. Dufty Lady sings Blues xxi. 190 If they'd known about that they might never have let him off. Or they might have. In view of what went down later, who can say?
1970 It 12 Feb. 4/4 If everyone was aware of what went down in these organisations perhaps there would be enough response to keep them from petrifying and dying.
1992 Spin Mar. 37/3 What went down with the Korean woman who shot that black girl in L.A.?
2002 W. Self Dorian (2003) ix. 118 Clearly, shit had been going down.
17. intransitive. Philippine English. To alight from a vehicle; to get off a bus, train, etc., esp. at a specified stop. [After Tagalog bumaba to go down, alight, descend ( < baba down, with infix -um-, forming verbs).]
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1993 A. Q. Pimentel Local Govt. Code 1991 22 [In 1910] the Supreme Court declared that a cochero was not negligent in leaving his horse unattended while helping his passengers go down from the carretela.
2010 Direct. Metro Manila in www.metromaniladirections.com (O.E.D. Archive) Take a bus going south (Baclaran or Alabang) or MRT and go down at Cubao.
2012 makemelodies.wordpress.com 23 Mar. (blog, accessed 22 Apr. 2014) And being Singapore noobs, we went down at the Marina Bay stop.
 to go forth
Now chiefly rhetorical.
1. intransitive. To move forward, onward, or away from somewhere; to set out to do something. In early use also: †(of time or a period of time) to pass, elapse (obsolete). Also in figurative contexts. Cf. forthgo v.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)] > set out
forthfarec888
foundOE
seta1000
to go forthOE
to fare forthc1200
partc1230
to pass forthc1325
to take (the) gatec1330
to take the wayc1330
to take one's waya1375
puta1382
treunt?a1400
movec1400
depart1490
prepare?1518
to set forth1530
to set forward(s)1530
busklea1535
to make out1558
to take forth1568
to set out1583
sally1590
start1591
to go off1600
to put forth1604
to start outa1626
intend1646
to take the road1720
to take one's foot in one's hand1755
to set off1774
to get off1778
to set away1817
to take out1855
to haul out1866
to hit the trail (less commonly the grit, pike, road, etc.)1873
to hit, split or take the breeze1910
hop1922
OE Beowulf (2008) 612 Eode Wealhþeo forð, cwen Hroðgares cynna gemyndig, grette goldhroden guman on healle.
OE Ælfric Old Test. Summary: Kings (Julius) in W. W. Skeat Ælfric's Lives of Saints (1881) I. 386 Eode þa forð feorðe healf gear butan renscurum and reocendum deawe.
OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Exod. (Claud.) xxxii. 27 Nimaþ eowre wæpn & gað forð mid me & wrecað Godes yrre on þam mannum þe hine forlæten habbað.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 15594 Fowwerrtiȝ winnterr ȝedenn forþ. & ȝet tær tekenn sexe.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1765 William & þe mayde..gon forþ þurȝth þe gardin a wel god spede.
a1425 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Galba) l. 28725 Go now furth and sin nomare.
1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. A.iiv The plowghman wente furth to sowe his seede.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 451 O, if a Virgin, And your affection not gone forth, Ile make you The Queene of Naples. View more context for this quotation
1646 T. Edwards 3rd Pt. Gangræna 124 He was to go forth of London the next morning.
1747 J. Edwards Humble Attempt to promote Explicit Agreement 113 The Church goes forth to fight with Antichrist, not in Sackcloth and Blood, but cloathed in white Raiment.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 84 The Falcon Gentle, with which, when properly trained, they go forth on horseback.
1843 J. Martineau Endeavours Christian Life I. xxii. 337 Every act of wise benevolence goes forth, and alleviates a suffering.
1886 A. Sergeant No Saint II. xvii. 336 He wanted to go forth like the Apostles.
1900 Amer. Bee Jrnl. 23 Aug. 530/2 There may be many queen-cells in the old hive when a colony goes forth.
1978 L. Eims Lost Art Disciple Making 182 Christ called the apostles to go forth as leaders.
2013 Washington Post (Nexis) 17 Mar. (Mag.) a15 This was the age of the Romantics and the landscape tour, where wealthy Americans went forth to gaze upon the natural world.
†2. intransitive. To continue, proceed. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > continuing > continue doing or keep going in a course of action [verb (intransitive)] > continue (of an action or operation)
runOE
to go fortha1382
to go or run on wheelsc1547
proceed1885
to wear on1886
a1382 Prefatory Epist. St. Jerome in Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) vii. 17 In prose he bygynniþ, in verse he goþ forþ [L. labitur]..in meke word he is I-endid.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 52/2 That wher he had repented the way that he had entred, yet wold he go forth in the same.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxix. 1 So Iob proceaded and wente forth in his communicacion.
1566 T. Becon New Postil i. f. 215v Their offices is nothyng els, then..to retaine holde, and bynd their synnes, that are impenitent, and stubborne, and go forth to sinne without repentaunce.
3. intransitive. Of a decree, order, etc.: to be issued.
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society > law > legislation > make (a) law(s [verb (intransitive)] > be issued (of decree)
to go forthc1523
c1523 J. Rastell Expos. Terminorum Legum Anglorum sig. E.3v/2 A wryt of scire facias shall go forth agaynst hym and yt is callyd a garnyshment.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Hab. i. A For the lawe is torne in peces, and there can no right iudgment go forth.
1611 Bible (King James) Isa. ii. 3 For out of Zion shall goe forth the lawe. View more context for this quotation
1651 J. March Amicus Reipublicæ 57 You may see the necessity of this Court, it is Officina Justitiæ, out of which all Original Writs & all Commissions, which pass under the great Seal go forth.
1779 Crit. Rev. July 57 A general cry went forth, that an opportunity was lost.
1794 R. Snowden Amer. Revol. II. i. 2 The decree went forth from White-hall..and it was sealed with the king's signet.
1853 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Apr. 608/1 A command went forth to plant the new Jerusalem.
1888 B. W. Richardson Son of Star II. iii. 30 The order goes forth that all the encampment is to pass before Caesar.
1901 F. Presbrey & J. H. Moffatt Athletics at Princeton 598 Then from out that Princeton gang goes forth a mighty cheer.
1924 E. Smith in B. C. Williams O. Henry Prize Stories of 1924 (1925) 176 Then the ultimatum went forth: he could submit or take the consequences—political oblivion.
2010 T. J. Stiles First Tycoon xiii. 356 New orders went forth from the War Department.
 to go forward
1. intransitive. To move forward; to advance, proceed (with reference both to physical movement and to figurative progress).
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1433 in R. H. Morris Earwaker's Hist. Church & Parish St. Mary-on-the-Hill Chester (1898) 31 The forsaid William shall pay to the forsaid Thomas xxli like as the worke goes forwarde.
1482 W. Caxton in tr. Higden's Prolicionycion viii. xxiii. f. ccccxvij From this tyme forward kyng harry neuer prouffyted ne wente forward, but fortune beganne to tourne from hym.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 39/1 There must it nedes bee long ere anye good conclusion goe forwarde.
1559 Passage Quene Elyzabeth (new ed.) sig. D.iii Her grace wente forwarde, towarde the conduite in Fleetestrete.
1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. clxxi. 481 (heading) How to make a horse that tires, or is restife, to goe forward.
1665 R. Boyle New Exper. & Observ. Cold xvii. 437 The snow will lye upon the water in flakes..but..as the Winter goes forward, it begins to freeze on the surface of it.
1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. II. iv. §26. 545 When the Moon is in the Quadratures, it goes forward slower.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xi. 100 Mr. Burchell..was always fond of seeing some innocent amusement going forward.
1832 H. Martineau Life in Wilds i. 18 Dinner was going forward.
1896 Baptist Missionary Mag. July 250 The religious work has quietly gone forward during the year.
1920 Bridgemen's Mag. Feb. 71/1 Humanity everywhere is thinking and talking about going forward.
1972 Pop. Mech. Aug. 160/1 With an iceboat the runners traveling over a hard, slick surface meet little resistance going forward.
2009 W. Thornton Brilliant Disguises xxix. 198 I resolved to tell him, let him make his own conclusions, and the whole thing would go forward from there.
2. intransitive. Originally U.S. going forward: (esp. in business and management) in or for the future; looking ahead or moving forward; starting from now.
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1976 B. Lance in N.Y. Times 4 Dec. 12/5 The kind of attitude that we talk about..is going to be awfully important going forward.
1987 Educ. & Training for Amer. Competitiveness: Hearings before U.S. House of Representatives Comm. Educ. & Labor (100th Congr., 1st Sess.) 181 But we do bring enormous advantages in the kinds of product, I think, that are going to make the difference going forward.
1989 Network World 21 Aug. 2/2 Going forward, it will be increasingly important. SQL Server is turning out to be a good product.
1999 N.Y. Mag. 13 Dec. 66/1 She..focuses in on their bold turquoise and pink florals..‘Too springy for fall but fresh and exciting going forward.’
2014 Daily Tel. 20 Jan. 10/4 I am hoping whatever is contained in this review will give us some grounding going forward in how we deal with people who go off-script.
 to go forwards
intransitive. = to go forward 1 at Phrasal verbs 1.In quot. 2014 going forwards: = going forward at Phrasal verbs 1.
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1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. iv. f. 48 And yt done [he] went forwards in his voyage.
?1586 R. P. tr. D. Ortúñez de Calahorra Third Pt. First Bk. Mirrour of Knighthood xi. f. 58 The contention went forwards, and she meruailously defended her selfe.
a1661 R. Bargrave Trav. Diary (1999) 193 I went forwards through delicat Pine-woods.
1689 P. Bellon Court Secret ii. 16 Whosoever once set his Hand to that Plough..was not to look back, but to go forwards.
?1754 Mock Monarchs II. 43 There's always some Plotting and Scheming going forwards amongst them, 'till they get their Heads cut off.
1755 W. Johnson Let. 24 Oct. in J. Sullivan Papers Sir William Johnson (1922) 238 As we were not ready to go forwards they were desirous also of returning home.
1832 H. Martineau Ireland iii. 52 There is another kind of education always going forwards..the education of circumstances.
1892 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 78 882/1 To go forwards with a desire to work together harmoniously in the interests of all classes of the community.
1914 tr. A. Strindberg Fair Haven & Foul Strand 104 Never look back! Only go forwards!
1970 Motoring Which? July 111/2 A control stick adjusted the airflow from the fan, to make the craft hover or go forwards.
2014 Chorley Guardian (Nexis) 16 June To enable us to deliver prompt, high quality treatment for our patients going forwards.
 to go in
1. intransitive.
a. To move or pass into a space or place; to go indoors or into a room.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come in [verb (intransitive)]
to go ineOE
ingoc900
to come inOE
incomec1000
infarec1000
enterc1325
enderc1330
ingressc1330
entera1382
to fall inc1384
usha1400
to get ina1425
to step in1534
to set (or put) (a) footing1567
invade1590
to take in1595
to hop in (also out)1914
the mind > language > statement > agreement, concurrence, or unanimity > agree with [verb (transitive)]
to go ineOE
cordc1380
consentc1386
covin1393
condescend1477
agree1481
correspond1545
concur1590
to fall in1602
suffrage1614
to hit it1634
colour1639
to take with ——1646
to be with1648
to fall into ——1668
to run in1688
to think with1688
meet1694
coincide1705
to go in1713
to say ditto to1775
to see with ——1802
sympathize1828
eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xxi. 153 Ic ða eode inn [L. ingressus], & geseah ðær ða anlicnessa eallra creopendra wuhta.
OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 54 Hwæt ða Basilius..alede his ræf on þæra ea ofre & eode in nacod.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 60 Hwase wule mei gan in.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Jer. xxxvi. 6 Go in [L. ingredere] þerfore þou & rede of þe volume..herende þe puple.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 13789 (MED) I ne may to þat watir wynne For oþere goon bifore me Inne.
1566 T. Heskyns Parl. Chryste ii. xi. f. cx How did he go in? All thinges are closse, ther ys no place, by the which he might go in.
1582 A. Munday Breefe Aunswer sig. B.5 He desiring vs to staye Dinner, we alighted and went in with him.
1653 F. G. tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Artamenes I. iii. ii. 97 She went into her Closet... I went in unto her, and found her leaning against the window.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. viii. 163 One of the Servants opening the Door, I bent down to go in.
1794 Whole Proc. Trial Thomas Walker 81 Did you send word before you went in, or go in without giving notice?
1846 Children's Mag. 9 126 The sheets are going in at one end of the machine as the rollers are going out at the other.
1878 Scribner's Monthly 16 149/1 The men allowed the matter to go in at one ear and out at the other.
1889 M. Caird Wing of Azrael II. xix. 72 You are cold..Would you like to go in?
1932 A. Bell Cherry Tree x. 143 The old lodge-keeper was already holding the tall house-door open for us. We went in.
1995 J. Banville Athena 68 Morden..walked a little way along by the houses and stopped at one and went in at the garden gate.
b. to go in and (come) out and variants: (of a person) to come and go; to go about one's life or business. Chiefly in biblical contexts, esp. with reference or allusion to John 10:9. archaic and rare in later use. [Partly (in contexts from and allusions to the Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures) after Hebrew lāṣēṯ wĕ-lāḇō, lit. ‘to go out and to come in’ (Deuteronomy 31:2, 1 Kings 3:7, etc.), and partly (with allusion to John 10:9) after Greek εἰσελεύσεται καὶ ἐξελεύσεται (New Testament, John 10:9), lit. ‘he goes in and he comes out’, perhaps itself ultimately after the Hebrew idiom.]
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a1549 T. Sternhold Al Suche Psalmes of David (?1553) sig. D.viv Thei go in and out, for the beholde and see.
1566 T. Becon Gouernaunce of Vertue f. 40 Christe is the dore. If any man enter in by him, he shall be safe. For he shall go in and come oute and finde pasture.
1584 E. Paget tr. J. Calvin Harmonie vpon Three Euangelists 243 By going in and comminge out, the Scripture doth oftentimes signifie vnto vs all the actions of life as wee say in Frenche Aller et venir.
1609 J. Donne Let. in Poems (1633) 364 In that life one is ever in the porch or posterne, going in or out, never within his house, himself.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Go To go in and out. To do the business of life.
1852 C. M. Wake Simple Comm. New Test. III. xxxv. 186 He may go in and out, he may follow his worldly business, but he is safe, and he will find all that his soul needeth.
a1911 J. H. Eccleston in S. M. Shoemaker J. H. Eccleston Day-bk. (1915) 21 The one who welcomes the Christ as Shepherd and King..‘goes in and out’ in absolute safety under the ever-present Guide.
c. Of a person: to enter a body of water in order to swim, etc.
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1756 D. Fenning Universal Spelling Bk. i. xi. 32 What business had you in the Water..? You don't want to learn to swim you say. It is plain then that you go in for Idleness Sake.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 184 Sportive youths who ‘go in’ at that particular part of the river.
1888 J. B. Smiley Basket of Chips 70 All the other boys could swim, and they offered to teach me. I went in with them one day and they held my head under water for about fifteen minutes.
1952 Boys' Life July 9/3 ‘You going in?’ he asked... ‘Not now, Coach, but when I get back will you help me with my dive?’
2010 J. Coe Terrible Privacy Maxwell Sim (2011) 174 Max..sat down on the grass above the beach and announced that he wasn't going to go in today.
d. to be going in: (of a church, theatre, etc.) to be admitting a congregation or audience. Now rare.
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1830 Afr. Repository & Colonial Jrnl. Dec. 313 The rain falling in torrents just as church was going in.
1842 London Q. Rev. Sept. 207/2 On Sunday, we travelled..till we came to Newcastle, where the church was just going in.
1913 Rep. Select Comm. Motor Traffic II. 557/2 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 278) IX. 1 You will find, if you care to stand, say, outside the Carlton, just when His Majesty's Theatre is going in, that there is a very great confusion of traffic.
1918 J. S. Clouston Spy in Black ii. i. 67 Just as church was going in I thought I'd look in too.
1922 D. H. Lawrence England my England 256 The cinema was just going in, and the queues were tailing down the road.
e. Of a person: to be admitted to hospital as a patient.
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1866 Med. Times & Gaz. 7 Apr. 371/1 Do we never hear of patients who go in for slight injuries dying of fevers contracted from the occupant of the next bed?
1900 N.Z. Med. Jrnl. 1 189 It was after the second visit [he went in on the 26th March] that he was given medicine for urine trouble.
1972 N.Y. Times 3 Nov. 52/1 Last week..Mrs. Black said she went in to have the lump diagnosed.
2011 Sun (Nexis) 8 June 19 I am waiting on a date to go in for surgery.
f. Sport. Of a ball, etc.: to land in the goal, on target, or the like, after being struck or thrown. Also used of a shot, throw, etc.
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1870 Baily's Mag. Mar. 89 The smallness of the pockets would not..affect..a skilled player,..if there was room for the ball to go in at all, a practised player wanted nothing more.
1891 Golf 30 Jan. 318/1 (caption) If that ball goes in I'll——!
1933 Hockey Field & Lacrosse 16 Dec. 8/2 She..made some very fine saves, one goal especially being unlucky, as it went in off her stick.
1986 S. Middleton After Dinner's Sleep xv. 176 Taking a penalty that had gone in off one of the goalposts.
2008 T. Gulliver Golden Girl xv. 162 I can't describe how I felt when that winning dart went in.
2. intransitive. Of the sun or moon: to be obscured by a cloud or clouds.
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the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > become dark [verb (intransitive)] > by being obscured > specifically of the sun
to go ina1672
a1672 P. Sterry Rise Kingdom of God (1683) 48 When God withdraws, he draws in all his Blessings, as the Sun often goes in, and gives up the Sky, and Day to dark Clouds.
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxvii. 147 The sun is gone in—It was very fine half an hour ago.
1817 M. Edgeworth Ormond II. xxx. 301 We both of us silently stole along in the dark, for the moon had gone in.
1884 R. Buchanan Foxglove Manor III. xxxiv. 132 The sun had gone in, and the air was full of a heavy lowering sadness.
1963 N. Bawden Secret Passage viii. 122 The smile went from Victoria's face—just like the sun going in on a showery day.
2004 Independent 24 July 22/6 Advantages over the other renewables include the fact that it [sc. Biomass] is not intermittent in production (the wind drops; the sun goes in).
3. intransitive.
†a. To agree with; to concur with. Obsolete.
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the mind > language > statement > agreement, concurrence, or unanimity > agree with [verb (transitive)]
to go ineOE
cordc1380
consentc1386
covin1393
condescend1477
agree1481
correspond1545
concur1590
to fall in1602
suffrage1614
to hit it1634
colour1639
to take with ——1646
to be with1648
to fall into ——1668
to run in1688
to think with1688
meet1694
coincide1705
to go in1713
to say ditto to1775
to see with ——1802
sympathize1828
1713 J. Kirkpatrick Hist. Ess. Loyalty Presbyterians ii. iii. 403 Many of 'em had gone in with all the Measures of the two former Reigns.
1725 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 232 I heartily go in with your Lordship's observations upon the subject, which are very just.
1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 89 His Lordship was so far from retaining any Offence at what was past, that he readily went in with the Promotion of Sir William Jones.
1837 Farmer's Mag. Sept. 160/1 We find him..going in with the opinion that horn is an unorganized animal matter.
b. To join with (a person or group of people) in a venture of some kind.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > associate with for common purpose [verb (transitive)]
alliance1533
to combine a league1562
enleague1596
to strike ina1637
factiona1652
adoptate1662
to strike up1714
enjoin1734
to go in1851
train1866
to tie up1888
affiliate1949
1851 Rep. Great Conspiracy Case 36 He spoke to me of it three different times, each time soliciting me to go in with him to do it.
1886 J. McCarthy & R. C. Praed Right Hon'ble II. xxiv. 214 Do you want to get up a republican party? And are you going in with that unfortunate Masterton and men like that?
1889 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms iii. 31 If you like to go in with me, we'll go share and share.
1922 Southwestern Reporter 240 585/1 I can find out if Mr. Overby is ready to take a half interest, or if I will have to wait to get somebody else to go in with me.
1995 G. Burn Fullalove i. 53 Listen. We've got to crash it, man. Do it. Go in with me. Run a raid on the factory of bad karma.
4. intransitive.
a. Cricket. Of a team or a player: to take to the field to bat. More fully to go in to bat.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > go in to bat
to go in1718
to come in1774
1718 Weekly-Jrnl. 6 Sept. 543/1 Three of their Men made an Elopement, and got off the Ground without going in.
1744 ‘J. Love’ Cricket ii. 16 Equal in Numbers, bravely they begin The dire Dispute.—The Foes of Kent go in.
1837 Laws of Cricket in D. Walker Games & Sports 232 If the striker be hurt, some other person may stand out for him, but not go in.
1890 Field 31 May 790/2 Lancashire went in to bat at five minutes to six.
1955 Times 27 Jan. 9/4 Seated in the pavilion, padded-up early, though he was not to go in higher than eighth wicket.
1998 Bath Chron. (Nexis) 29 Aug. 3 In the afternoon, Doncaster went in to bat.
b. To take part in or enter a game, sporting contest, bet, etc. Also imperative in go in and win, expressing encouragement.
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society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > compete or rival [verb (intransitive)] > enter a contest
to strike in1632
enter1702
to go in1822
society > leisure > sport > match or competition > take part in match or competition [verb (intransitive)] > engage in match or competition
to play a prize1565
to go in1822
1822 Sporting Mag. Oct. 52/2 Towards the conclusion of the battle [sc. a prize fight] he wished him to go in and win it.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 23 This advice was very like that which by-standers..give to the smallest boy in a street fight; namely, ‘Go in, and win’.
1882 Poker: how to play it 49 After the cards have been dealt..each player..determines whether he will go in or not. And the player who decides to go in, that is, to play for the pool, must put into the pool double the amount of the ante, except [etc.].
1889 F. C. Philips & C. J. Wills Fatal Phryne II. iii. 78 Sit down well in your saddle, and go in and win.
1915 H. Hall Pepper ix. 226 We all go in, and bet ten dollars on the first race.
1937 Boys' Life Apr. 10/3 We're a disgusting little bunch of yellow-bellies that haven't the stuff to go in and win.
2007 D. Strader in E. Mirlis Being There 251 Rutherford..went in to play goal, and Hewitt scored again!
c. To enter as a candidate or applicant for a job, prize, etc.
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society > education > educational administration > examination > examine a candidate [verb (transitive)] > take examination
to go in1845
sit1859
write1943
1845 Punch 6 Sept. 108/2 Having heard that there was a better thing than the Newfoundland Judgeship to be had in the neighbourhood, he determined to ‘go in for it’.
1868 F. Tarver Eton French Gram. & Exercise Bk. 155 He wishes us to go in for the French prize.
1894 W. H. Wilkins & H. Vivian Green Bay Tree I. 127 You are going in for the History Tripos, like myself, I suppose.
1914 Hearings before Subcomittee of Comm. on Public Buildings & Grounds (U.S. House of Representatives, 63rd Congr.) No. 28B. 28 The general contractor went in for the job for the heating and ventilating of that building.
1919 R. Frost Let. 24 Mar. (1972) 5 Mamma told me you were in fact going in for the lyric prize.
2003 Observer (Nexis) 20 July 16 In London, she went in for the job of Labour Party international secretary.
5. intransitive.
a. To enter the field of combat; to attack. Also in extended and humorous use.
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society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (intransitive)] > commence an attack
enterprisec1570
to go in1810
to cut loose1900
1810 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 15 239 The fire ships were, by their written orders, to go in, in three divisions.
1862 Frank Leslie's Illustr. Newspaper 28 June 198/2 As for retreat, I knew the Colonel wouldn't hear of it, so we went in.
1917 W. Owen Let. 9 Apr. (1967) 451 Between us we are pulling the company together for we ‘go in’ again tomorrow!
1975 P. W. Fay Opium War, 1840–42 xv. 223 For eight..minutes upwards of seventy guns..thundered... Then the Wellesley flew the signal to desist and the troops went in.
2000 Fullhouse Sisters: Matchmakers x. 91 ‘I'm going in. Cover me!’ he joked. Michelle had to stifle a giggle as Joey carefully lifted the skirt of the couch.
2003 CNN Sunday Morning (transcript of TV programme) (Nexis) 25 May You are a combat cameraman, which means you go in whenever your fellow Marines go in, you're on the front lines with them.
b. colloquial. to go in at: to attack or assail vigorously. Now archaic and rare.
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society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)]
greetc893
overfallOE
riseOE
assail?c1225
to lay on or upon?c1225
onseekc1275
to set on ——c1290
infighta1300
saila1300
to go upon ——c1300
to turn one's handc1325
lashc1330
annoyc1380
impugnc1384
offendc1385
to fall on ——a1387
sault1387
affrayc1390
to set upon ——1390
to fall upon ——a1398
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attachc1425
to set at ——c1430
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sayc1475
envaye1477
pursue1488
envahisshe1489
assaulta1500
to lay to, untoa1500
requirea1500
enterprise?1510
invade1513
assemblec1515
expugn1530
to fare on1535
to fall into ——1550
mount1568
attack?1576
affront1579
invest1598
canvass1599
to take arms1604
attempt1605
to make force at, to, upon1607
salute1609
offence1614
strikea1616
to give a lift at1622
to get at ——1650
insult1697
to walk into ——1794
to go in at1812
to go for ——1838
to light on ——1842
strafe1915
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)]
assail?c1225
to set on ——c1290
saila1300
to turn one's handc1325
lashc1330
to set against ——c1330
impugnc1384
offendc1385
weighc1386
checka1400
to lay at?a1400
havec1400
to set at ——c1430
fraya1440
rehetea1450
besail1460
fray1465
tuilyie1487
assaulta1500
enterprise?1510
invade1513
sturt1513
attempt1546
lay1580
tilt1589
to fall aboard——1593
yoke1596
to let into1598
to fall foul1602
attack1655
do1780
to go in at1812
to pitch into ——1823
tackle1828
vampire1832
bushwhack1837
to go for ——1838
take1864
pile1867
volcano1867
to set about ——1879
vampirize1888
to get stuck into1910
to take to ——1911
weigh1941
rugby-tackle1967
rugger-tackle1967
1812 Sporting Mag. 39 138 Dogherty went in at his antagonist's head.
1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) xviii. 189 Sometimes I go in at the butcher madly, and cut my knuckles open against his face.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Feb. 2/2 Napoleon's pet soldiers were far more eager to go in at their fellow-citizens than at the German enemy.
1964 Boys' Life Mar. 27/3 Then a bugle sounded the charge, and we went in at them.
2007 C. Cook Chandlers Attack xvi. 203 Didn't they go in at those bastards sir—God, I was proud of them.
c. Sport (chiefly Association Football). To tackle a player.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > play football [verb (intransitive)] > actions
to kill a ball1883
chip1889
miskick1901
to go in1914
to give (a ball) air1920
punt-kick1960
1914 Vanderbilt Univ. Q. 14 311 Cody, whose chief fault in the opening game was high tackling, went in hard and low.
1976 Evening Post (Nottingham) 14 Dec. 17/5 Bennett, who had already floored John O'Hare with a dubious tackle, went in dangerously against Peter Withe.
2014 People (Nexis) 15 June (Sport section) 8 Those serious foul play tackles where players go in with straight legs and studs showing above the ankle.
6. intransitive. colloquial (originally U.S.) to go in for: to support or be in favour of; to engage habitually in; to adopt as one's speciality, interest, principle, style, etc.; to have a characteristic liking or preference for.
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the mind > will > intention > intend [verb (transitive)] > have as purpose or object
followeOE
studylOE
turna1200
pursuea1382
purposec1384
to shoot atc1407
ensue1483
proponea1500
studyc1503
prick1545
tread1551
suit1560
to go for ——1568
to set (up) one's rest1572
expect1578
propose1584
propound1596
aima1616
scope1668
to set up1691
aim1821
to go in for1835
to be out for1887
to be flat out for1930
target1966
shoot1967
1835 A. B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes 119 She would..‘go in’ for Augusta, live or die, hit or miss.
1849 N.Y. Tribune 25 Dec. We go in for all the postage reduction President Taylor recommends.
1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies viii. 316 My mamma says that my intellect is not adapted for methodic science, and says that I must go in for general information.
1873 M. Oliphant Innocent III. x. 167 Not elegant—the judge had never gone in for elegance—but forcible and clear.
1917 A. Cahan Rise of David Levinsky (1993) xii. i. 409 Oh, these two girls go in for highbrow fellows.
1961 A. Christie Pale Horse v. 64 She's very occult... Goes in for spiritualism and trances, and magic.
1971 Boys' Life Apr. 43/1 The brown trout..doesn't go in for the crazy leaping and jumping that a rainbow does.
2005 S. Rushdie Shalimar the Clown 12 Max customarily went in for big classic English vehicles.
7. intransitive.
a. Of wiring, pipes, an appliance, etc.: to be installed, fitted, etc., esp. as a piece of work within a larger project.
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1863 B. Harte in Golden Era 22 Feb. 4/4 Boonder [sc. a dog] had previously resisted the gas, but although he spent one whole day in angry altercation with the workmen,..somehow the gas went in.
1887 M. Rutherford Revol. in Tanner's Lane xviii. 294 Everybody wanted to know how water was going to get through fifteen inches of heavy land... However, the pipes went in.
1944 Billboard 2 Dec. 61/4 New wiring will go in all over the grounds and lighting will be installed for night harness horse racing.
2001 B. Long RX-7 (2004) iii. 49/1 You could be messing around for ages trying to get an early Jaguar door right, and then you'd have to adjust it again once all the electrics went in.
2014 Evening Standard (Nexis) 6 Aug. 16 Concrete tiles were ripped off,..new windows went in, and it was rewired and replumbed.
b. Of a sum of money, cheque, etc.: to be paid into or credited to a bank account; to be deposited.
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1872 Baily's Mag. June 61 The anonymous well-wisher..offered 100l.... His cheque had gone in; only instead of one hundred it was two.
1964 G. Simons What Every Woman doesn't Know xxvi. 156 If the account has been maintained for many years with sums going in and coming out.., you will have to know exactly what you deposited and what your husband deposited.
2012 S. Mills Debtor's Diary 378 My bank statement was waiting for me when I got home and I'd gone into my overdraft by £51 before my last pay cheque went in.
8. intransitive. To enter into a financial venture, to invest. Also with on: to invest in or contribute to a purchase; to participate in an undertaking or scheme.With quot. 1867 compare to get (or be let) in on the ground floor at ground floor n. b.
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1867 Six Hundred Dollars Year ii. 9 He had bought two hundred shares of ‘Oil’ stock. A friend of his who had gone in on what was called ‘the ground floor’ had let him into the ring at a merely nominal advance.
1894 C. H. Hoyt Milk White Flag i, in Five Plays (1941) 206 You let me put up the money to go in on a good thing.
1895 Rep. Comm. Agric. & Forestry on Condition Cotton Growers I. 57 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (53rd Congr., 3rd Sess.: Senate Rep. 986, Pt. I) III Generally the outside buyers and speculators see the same causes why prices should advance, and they go in on the same side.
1907 12th Ann. Rep. Illinois Farmers' Instit. 164 The only time to do it is in October and November, when the ground is in good condition. We went in on it together, about ten neighbors.
1921 Mich. Manufacturer & Financial Rec. 2 Apr. 3/3 Speculative buyers went in at the top of the market and, in many cases, are sufferers thereby.
2013 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 10 Sept. The key for new investors is to go in at a very low-risk entry level and to not use a lot of your own money.
 to go off
1. intransitive.
a. To be taken off, removed, or detached (quickly or suddenly). Also of the head or other body part: to be cut off, typically as an execution.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > become displaced [verb (intransitive)] > be removed or taken away
to go off?c1425
pass1611
subduct1669
?c1425 Recipe in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Arun. 334) (1790) 425 Take clene qwete and bray hit wele in a morter that tho holles gone alle of.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 30 Whan Gryfflet saw rescowis he smote a knyght on the templis, that hede and helme wente of to the erthe.
1567 G. Turberville tr. G. B. Spagnoli Eglogs vi. f. 53v Then crooke they knees, the caps go off, and marke what euer way I passe, the people crouch.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. v. 4 If I reuolt, off goes young Georges head. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. iii. 280 This womans an easie gloue my Lord, she goes off and on at pleasure. View more context for this quotation
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors vii. 397 Protesting that if he had him, his head should go off for it.
1726 M. O'Connor Poems, Pastorals, & Dialogues 20 Off go the Hats and Coats, the Fight begins.
1796 A. Wilson Watty & Meg 8 Aff gaed bonnet, claes, and shoon.
1864 L. M. Alcott On Picket Duty 51 ‘Then I shan't wear it’; and off went the hat at one fell blow.
1904 Temple Bar Dec. 713 Every hat went off, except one.
1921 Proc. Nat. Safety Council 10th Ann. Congr. 305 The press came down and my finger went off.
2004 M. Horne & J. Scovell Marilyn Horne 157 Off went the wig, off went the dress.
b. Of a letter, parcel, etc.: to be sent or dispatched.
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1760 Scots Mag. Apr. 170/2 My L.G.S. a few days after my letter went off, received his recall.
1796 C. Lamb Let. 10 Dec. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 79 I was unwilling to let my last night's letter go off without this qualifier.
1889 C. Smith Repentance Paul Wentworth I. xv. 302 My last proofs went off to the publisher's to day.
1920 L. Holt Paris in Shadow 107 Do you know when that parcel went off to Cognac?
1992 Vegetarian Times Aug. 53/2 Each time, she'd changed the recipe a bit. The latest reincarnation went off in the mail to Pillsbury just one week before the entry deadline.
2011 M. Ellis Princes Gate 194 The message went off last night.
†c. Banking. Of a bill for a sum of money: to be due in a given period, and therefore taken off the books. Obsolete.
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1848 Rep. Select Comm. House of Lords Distress Commerc. Classes 15 in Parl. Papers 1847–8 (H.C. 565) VIII. iii. 1 It must always be borne in Mind that the Amount coming in for Bills going off was very considerable.
1858 Rep. Select Comm. Bank Acts 8 in Parl. Papers 1857–8 (H.C. 381) V. 1 She [sc. the Bank] had always a very large return to her from discounts going off.
1866 Ledger Bk. Smith Fleming & Co. 3 May in M. D. Bordo & W. Roberds Origins, Hist., & Future Federal Reserve (2013) 121 Amount of Bills Discounted going off £92,000.00 Amount of Advances going off £3,000.00.
2. intransitive.
a. Of a gun: to be discharged or fired; (of a bomb, etc.) to explode. Also figurative, with reference to anger (cf. sense 11c).See also to go off with a bang at bang n.1 Additions.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > be violent [verb (intransitive)] > explode or go off (of firearms, gunpowder, etc.)
to go off1560
fulminate1651
springa1658
explode1673
displode1812
to go up1950
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lvij They gaue the charge on theyr enemies, and fyrst wente of the ordinaunce [L. tormentis..res agitur].
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1577/2 From the Tower, a great peale of ordinance wente off lustely.
1637 R. Monro Exped. Scots Regim. ii. 99 His Majesty conveyed the Queene to Francfurt, where all the Cannons went off, after their entries.
1670 W. Clarke Nat. Hist. Nitre 30 Gun-powder..with greater force and noise going off.
1721 P. Aubin Strange Adventures Count de Vinevil xv. 103 Then Guns went off, by which they guess'd some Ship was near, and in Distress.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 142 The piece went off in the awkward hands of the poor parson.
1840 Burton's Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 70 Whew,..don't tear your shirt! why, what on airth is the use of your goin' off at half cock in that-a-way?
1844 G. Lippard Legend of Black Rangers vi. 53 Somebody must a-been drying your primin' before a hickory fire—you go off at sich very short notice. Why you explode at about the eighth fraction of half-cock.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) xxii. 298 A pocket Derringer, which..had a trick of going off unexpectedly.
1907 C. Wells Patty in Paris xi. 130 Cannon booming, and salutes being fired, and rockets and fireworks going off like mad.
1974 N.Y. Mag. 18 Nov. 102/1 Five bombs went off outside several Manhattan buildings.
2003 D. Brown Da Vinci Code (2004) xcvi. 515 The gun went off, the bullet sailing above Silas's head.
b. Of an alarm, etc.: to be set off; to sound. Also in figurative context.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > thing heard > make sound [verb (intransitive)]
dinOE
sweyc1000
sounda1325
goa1450
speak1604
talk1793
to go off1810
1810 Farmer's Mag. Mar. 129 There was..a scarcity of wheat..in this part. However, the alarm has gone off; and, within the last fortnight, wheat seems to pour in upon us from all quarters.
1810 in Rep. Arts, Manufactures & Agric. Sept. (1812) 204 The long lever will be secured in its place, and the alarm cannot go off, either by accident or by design.
1826 Morning Post 18 Sept. 2/4 He was awoke by an alarm-bell going off in his kitchen.
1871 New Monthly Mag. Jan. 40 I..dragged at the handle quite savage, and at last the bell went off enough to deafen you.
1909 T. A. Rickard Through Yukon & Alaska viii. 78 At 6:15 an alarm-clock goes off in the house opposite.
1985 S. Butterfield Amway xi. 132 Somewhere inside my memory banks, the warning bell goes off: this is precisely what every boss..would like us to believe.
2005 Bath Chron. (Nexis) 30 Apr. 2 His beeper went off, alerting him that..he needed to get to the fire station.
3. intransitive.
a. To lose brightness, quality, or strength; to deteriorate, decline.
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > deteriorate in condition [verb (intransitive)]
marc1225
pairc1390
starvec1400
dispair1580
to go off1583
die1612
spoil1692
to go bad1799
to go wrong1882
to go in the tank1974
1583 L. Mascall tr. Profitable Bk. Spottes & Staines 48 Yee muste vnderstande with what colours yee shall strike your felles withall, which is, with the red, and with blue, and also greene, for these shall chieflye abide and not go off.
1606 H. Peacham Art of Drawing 69 If the color goeth off; it hath not enough of the fire, & if it hold it is wel annealed.
1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 212 The Sun being now gone off, the Vapour stagnates.
1732 J. Swift Let. 12 June in A. Pope Wks. (1741) II. 157 Women who live by their beauty, and men by their wit, are seldom provident enough to consider that both Wit and Beauty will go off with years.
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 130 [A manuscript] so faded and gone off by damps and length of time.
1812 W. Nicol Gardener's Kalendar 133 In some places the crop going off by scald.
1851 T. B. Macaulay Diary 9 June in Life & Lett. (1881) xii. 552 His style had then gone off.
1888 ‘S. Tytler’ Blackhall Ghosts II. xvii. 72 Her good looks..were unmistakably going off.
1921 T. Maynard Divine Adventure iv. 194 He had ‘gone off’ somewhat in his capacity for eating.
1999 Courier Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 13 Nov. w7 Australian critics who had been peddling the view that his poetry had gone off badly since the 1970s gradually fell silent.
b. Esp. of a feeling or symptom: to pass away, cease to be felt; to subside.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > become less violent or severe [verb (intransitive)] > lose vigour or intensity
swindOE
wane1297
forslacka1300
keelc1325
deadc1384
abatea1387
flag1639
to go off1642
subsidea1645
slacken1651
flat1654
lower1699
relax1701
deaden1723
entame1768
sober1825
lighten1827
sletch1847
slow1849
languish1855
bate1860
to slow up1861
to slow down1879
1642 J. Marston Serm. St. Margaretts Westminster 23 We are still at a stand for a Conuenient season, and so the fit goes off.
1674 T. B. Animadversions F. Loss 56 I have heard a Patient presently upon bleeding, before yet his Arm was tyed up, tell with rejoycing how he plainly felt his pain go off.
1722 J. Hancocke Febrifugum Magnum 34 In a little Time the Symptoms went off, and the Fever was much abated.
1798 G. Pearson Inq. Hist. Cowpox 40 He was recommended to keep much in the open air, which he did, and in 4 or 5 days the symptoms of fever went off.
1826 New Monthly Mag. 16 591 This feeling..gradually goes off.
1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth IV. xvi. 171 Jorian..fell ill of a bowel disease; it began with raging pain; and when this went off, leaving him weak, an awkward symptom succeeded.
1906 Cleveland Med. & Surg. Rep. May 203 Pains go off at night and reappear the next day.
1918 C. Torr Small Talk at Wreyland 120 The impression goes off, when one begins to think of details; but at first sight it is vivid.
1939 W. M. Deans tr. E. Donner Hinterland Liberia viii. 215 The rain had gone off a little.
2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 54 The floaty sensation's gone off a bit, at least I feel connected to my body now, but my head's still woolly.
c. Of food: to become rancid, stale, or otherwise unfit for consumption; to begin to decompose.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > become rancid [verb (intransitive)]
reest1440
reese1784
to go off1913
rancidify1924
1913 Rep. Royal Comm. Meat Industry in Queensland Parl. Papers (19th Parl., 2nd Sess.) II. 986 Does the meat go off in appearance if you hold it a considerable time in store?
1949 E. M. Turner Catering Business of your Own xii. 157 A refrigerator is an absolute necessity, since nothing goes ‘off’ more rapidly than gelatine round meat.
1986 B. Morse Breaking Glass 37 The food in the fridge had gone off. If you opened the door there was a revolting smell.
2003 Marie Claire Dec. 149/3 Tea..comes with milk that has clearly gone off, the curds floating on top of her cuppa.
4. intransitive.
a. To leave or depart, esp. quickly or suddenly; to set out to go somewhere or to do something. Also of an actor or performer: to leave the stage.In quot. 1879: (Cards) to lead with a suit.See also to go off at score at score n. 3b, to go off into the sunset at sunset n. 1b.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)]
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
atwendOE
awayOE
to wend awayOE
awendOE
gangOE
rimeOE
flitc1175
to fare forthc1200
depart?c1225
part?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
biwitec1300
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to draw awayc1330
passc1330
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
voidc1374
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
waive1390
to pass out ofa1398
avoida1400
to pass awaya1400
to turn awaya1400
slakec1400
wagc1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
muck1429
packc1450
recede1450
roomc1450
to show (a person) the feetc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
devoidc1485
rebatea1500
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
to go one's ways1530
retire?1543
avaunt1549
to make out1558
trudge1562
vade?1570
fly1581
leave1593
wag1594
to get off1595
to go off1600
to put off1600
shog1600
troop1600
to forsake patch1602
exit1607
hence1614
to give offa1616
to take off1657
to move off1692
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
sheera1704
to go about one's business1749
mizzle1772
to move out1792
transit1797–1803
stump it1803
to run away1809
quit1811
to clear off1816
to clear out1816
nash1819
fuff1822
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
mosey1829
slope1830
to tail out1830
to walk one's chalks1835
to take away1838
shove1844
trot1847
fade1848
evacuate1849
shag1851
to get up and get1854
to pull out1855
to cut (the) cable(s)1859
to light out1859
to pick up1872
to sling one's Daniel or hook1873
to sling (also take) one's hook1874
smoke1893
screw1896
shoot1897
voetsak1897
to tootle off1902
to ship out1908
to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909
to push off1918
to bugger off1922
biff1923
to fuck off1929
to hit, split or take the breeze1931
to jack off1931
to piss offa1935
to do a mick1937
to take a walk1937
to head off1941
to take a hike1944
moulder1945
to chuff off1947
to get lost1947
to shoot through1947
skidoo1949
to sod off1950
peel1951
bug1952
split1954
poop1961
mugger1962
frig1965
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)]
to come awayeOE
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
awayOE
dealc1000
goOE
awendOE
rimeOE
to go one's wayOE
flitc1175
depart?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
to turn awaya1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
recede1450
roomc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
avaunt1549
trudge1562
vade?1570
discoast1571
leave1593
wag1594
to go off1600
troop1600
hence1614
to set on one's foota1616
to pull up one's stumps1647
quit1811
to clear out1816
slope1830
to walk one's chalks1835
shove1844
to roll out1850
to pull out1855
to light out1859
to take a run-out powder1909
to push off (also along)1923
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)] > set out
forthfarec888
foundOE
seta1000
to go forthOE
to fare forthc1200
partc1230
to pass forthc1325
to take (the) gatec1330
to take the wayc1330
to take one's waya1375
puta1382
treunt?a1400
movec1400
depart1490
prepare?1518
to set forth1530
to set forward(s)1530
busklea1535
to make out1558
to take forth1568
to set out1583
sally1590
start1591
to go off1600
to put forth1604
to start outa1626
intend1646
to take the road1720
to take one's foot in one's hand1755
to set off1774
to get off1778
to set away1817
to take out1855
to haul out1866
to hit the trail (less commonly the grit, pike, road, etc.)1873
to hit, split or take the breeze1910
hop1922
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. i. 326 The Leaders hauing charge from you to stand, Wil not goe off vntil they heare you speake. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. xiv. 6 The Soule and Body riue not more in parting, Then greatnesse going off . View more context for this quotation
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 121 The Mahometans..on their thumb commonly wear a ring of horn, which makes the Arrow go off both strongly and easily.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 51. ⁋5 His Turkish Majesty went off with a good Air.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. v. i. 246 I went off like a shot, in the direction of our inn.
1861 Temple Bar 1 406 Ethelind went off to bed.
1879 ‘Cavendish’ Card Ess. 165 If he had only gone off with that suit the game was over.
1908 A. H. Thorndike Tragedy iv. 81 Actors went off, others came on, and the place changed from a seacoast to the palace.
1945 Life 6 Aug. 57 After we had played around till it was late off we went, down the hills.
1957 M. Millar Soft Talkers 97 All those times when I was so ill I could scarcely move and he went off partying.
2009 Guardian 17 Oct. 25/4 The attendant went off to fetch a more senior figure.
b. to go off with: to leave in the company of (another person); to elope with, run away with; to have an affair with.
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1651 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa I. iii. 305 Those whose wounds will not permit them to goe off with you, shall receive an entertainment which shall speake the opinion I have of their Generall.
1668 J. Dryden Secret-love iii. 30 He's just gone off with Melissa's Daughters.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xv. viii. 259 His Daughter had taken the Opportunity of almost the first Moment of his Absence, and gone off with a Neighbouring young Clergyman. View more context for this quotation
1795 J. O'Keeffe Life's Vagaries v. 86 Sir Hans. What! zounds! the Frenchman gone off with my ward. Fanny. Yes, they'll surely be married.
1810 S. Green Romance Readers 17 Lady Harriet Egmont, after going off with a married man, the father of eight children..was restored to her home.
1856 F. S. Cozzens Sparrowgrass Papers xiii. 187 Upon investigation, we found our eldest had gone off with a school-girl twice his size.
1912 C. Mackenzie Carnival xxi. 217 ‘I saw you go off with a fellah.’ ‘What of it, Mr. Nosy Parker?’
1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) i. 19 He went off with that bloody moll whose name I wouldn't speak.
2007 L. A. Meyer Mississippi Jack xvii. 126 You ask how I could have gone off with this girl, and I ask you, what else could I have done?
c. To end a work shift; to go off duty.
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1817 1st Rep. Comm. State Police Metropolis 110 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 233) VII. 1 Our watchmen go on at nine, and leave at six... Do they go off at six, both in winter and summer?
1898 W. J. Shaxby Eight-hours Day xv. 116 I went off at six o'clock, and the other man started at eight. There were..two hours that the machines were not running.
1952 G. Johnston Curtain Going Up! i. 28 Sweeping? No, ma'am... I go off at five.
2010 Plymouth Herald (Nexis) 27 Oct. 6 We get in early so we can..get into the control room by 6.45am for the handover so that the shift going off aren't kept late.
d. Sport. Of a team member: to leave or be taken off the field of play during a game.
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1925 King's Royal Rifle Corps Chron. 1924 114 Archer had to go off at half-time, suffering from the effects of inoculation, but, in spite of this, the team played very well.
1969 M. Price in W. Reyburn Rugby Compan. iv. 94 The Springboks were playing a minor game and the hooker went off with an injury.
1989 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 1 Feb. 1 d The power play lasted only 54 seconds before Andrew McBain went off for hooking.
2014 Manch. Evening News (Nexis) 2 Apr. 53 He never allowed himself to get dragged all over the place by Muller, who went off in the second half after a quiet game.
5. intransitive. With adverb, adverbial phrase, or prepositional phrase as complement. To meet with a specified degree of success; to happen or turn out in a specified way. Also without complement: to be (moderately) successful.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)]
speedc1175
fayc1300
provec1300
flourishc1400
passc1425
prosper1434
succeedc1450
to take placea1464
to come well to (our) pass1481
shift?1533
hitc1540
walka1556
fadge1573
thrive1587
work1599
to come (good) speedc1600
to go off1608
sort1613
go1699
answer1721
to get along1768
to turn up trumps1785
to come off1854
pan1865
scour1871
arrive1889
to work out1899
to ring the bell1900
to go over1907
click1916
happen1949
1608 T. Dekker Belman of London sig. Fv The prologue of which if it goe off well, there is good hope all shall end well.
1688 R. L'Estrange Brief Hist. Times III. i. xiv. 155 The Story, 'tis true, went off well enough at Volley, for a good while.
1775 E. A. Linley Let. 9 Mar. in T. Moore Life of R. B. Sheridan (1825) 102 In my life, I never saw any thing go off with such uncommon applause.
1791 Literary & Biogr. Mag. Feb. 155/2 The actors did ample justice to their parts, and the play went off well.
1827 Guards III. i. 14 Things went off ill; the domestics were almost in a state of mutiny.
1867 Quiver 2 564/1 All the rest of the day went off like a dream.
1878 Scribner's Monthly 15 868/2 We tried to sing and have games, but they wouldn't go off.
1920 E. Wharton Age of Innocence ii. xxxiii. 342 He met May's triumphant eyes, and read in them the conviction that everything had ‘gone off’ beautifully.
1940 Flying & Pop. Aviation Oct. 18/3 The raid went off like clockwork.
1993 R. Shenkman Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of World Hist. (1994) 90 Even Queen Victoria's coronation went off badly.
2013 R. L. Schwanke High Places xvii. 88 Ken's party went off with great success.
6. intransitive.
a. To die, pass away. Now somewhat rare.
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. xi. 2 Mal. I would the Friends we misse, were safe arriu'd. Sey. Some must go off . View more context for this quotation
1631 Earl of Manchester Contemplatio Mortis 55 Who euer they bee that dwell in Contemplation of heauenly things, goe off rich in thoughts, satisfied in their expectation.
1709 Tatler No. 86. ⁋7 In this manner..he [sc. Cæsar] went off, not like a Man that departed out of Life, but a Deity that returned to his Abode.
1779 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 69 56 She..was better a few hours before her death, and went off pretty easy.
1822 Ld. Byron Let. 11 Apr. (1979) IX. 139 The ragamuffin is at last out of danger... Though he richly deserved it—I am glad that he did not go off.
1888 H. R. Haggard Colonel Quaritch, V.C. xxv. 188 The doctors told me that he might go off any day.
1916 A. Hodges Pincus Hood xvi. 308 A year later he died... Just went off in his sleep!
1992 E. George For Sake of Elena ii. 26 Went off in her sleep, bless her. Just as peaceful as ever you'd want someone's passing to be.
b. To fall asleep; to pass into unconsciousness. Also more fully to go off to sleep, etc.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [verb (intransitive)] > go to sleep or fall asleep
to fall, lull, lay (bring obs.) asleepOE
to fall overa1752
to go off1813
to drop off1820
to fall off1822
to get off to sleep1837
to fall off1862
tope1863
sleepy-baw1907
to go out1928
to zizz off1962
1813 Med. & Physical Jrnl. Aug. 125 He was awoke by Mrs. M. going into his room, but went off to sleep again.
1887 G. M. Fenn Devon Boys xxxi. 266 His regular breathing told that he had gone off.
1896 Daily News 2 Oct. 5/2 He..began inhaling, and soon ‘went off’ to his entire satisfaction.
1909 Munsey's Mag. Aug. 735/1 There was plenty of time for another nap... It would be pleasant to feel himself going off into unconsciousness for a while.
1943 G. Greene Ministry of Fear ii. i. 114 He would drink his medicines without complaint and go off into deep sleep.
2012 M. W. Blackwell Behind Kitchen Door xxx. 185 After tossing and turning she finally went off to sleep.
7. intransitive †(a) To be married off. Obsolete. (b) To be disposed of by sale. Chiefly colloquial.See also to go off like hot cakes at hot cake n. 2.
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society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (intransitive)] > be sold or find buyers
sell1609
utter1611
vend1622
vent1622
to go off1625
move1759
sale1809
to sell (also go, go off) like hot cakes1839
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (intransitive)] > of a woman > be married (of daughters)
to go off1749
1625 P. Heylyn Μικρόκοσμος (rev. ed.) 621 The maides which are marriageable, are..set to sale to such as would marry them: and the mony which was giuen for the fairest, was..giuen to the more deformed for their portions, to make them goe off the better and quicker.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 118 Fatte horses and especially geldings goe alsoe well of.
1692 J. Locke Some Considerations Lowering Interest 89 So Trade flourishes, and his Commodities go off well, he will be able to pay his Rent on.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xiv. vii. 162 Her Reputation might otherwise have been safe..and then the Girl might have gone off never the worse. View more context for this quotation
1819 Metropolis (ed. 2) I. 74 Such second-hand furniture as a Perlet or a Fusil..would go off no where else but with the fanciful of London.
1884 M. C. Houstoun Caught in Snare I. xii. 131 Plain girls..did sometimes ‘go off’ when pretty ones hung on hand.
1910 Amer. Stationer 12 Mar. 11/1 Counter goods went off well.
2005 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 11 Apr. 11 By all accounts the shares are going off like hot cakes.
†8. intransitive. To become bankrupt. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [verb (intransitive)] > become bankrupt
to play (the) bankrupt1548
bankrupt1552
to take Ludgate1585
break1600
to go down the weather1611
to break the bank1623
to go to the right shop1655
to swallow a spider1670
to march off1683
to go off1688
to break up shop1712
bust1834
burst1848
to go up King Street1864
to go bust1875
to go under1882
to belly up1886
1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. (at cited word) He is gone off, he is broke, il a fait banqueroute.
1703 N. Luttrell Diary 14 Aug. in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) V. 328 Mr. C——, a great exchange broker, who dealt mostly in stocks, went off, as said, for above 100,000l.
1715 S. Centlivre Gotham Election i. iv. 61 I tell you Sir Charles Wealthy has been gone off this Month.
9. intransitive. Of a road, path, etc.: to branch off or lead to a particular place or in a specified direction.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > divergence > diverge [verb (intransitive)] > ramify or branch > branch off or out
issuec1515
branchc1540
disbranch1622
to go off1728
to take off1831
outbranch1835
offset1853
rib1856
1728 N. Salmon New Surv. Eng.: Pt. III 192 It [sc. a Roman way] might be continued by Lynn, or go off to the Right, and fall in with Walsingham Way.
1799 R. Heron Scotl. Delineated (New ed.) 129 After crossing the bridge, a street goes off to the left, leading to St Andrew's Square.
1862 J. M. Stuart Diary Explor. from Adelaide 15 July 21 At 6 miles the river came close to the line, and immediately went off to the west.
1908 D. B. W. Sladon Egypt & Eng. 308 The Atbara Junction, the most important on the line, for here the railway goes off to Port Sudan.
1989 Washington Post 26 Jan. (Virginia Weekly section) 9/1 A modest..set..presents French windows, a staircase going off upstairs, double doors to a study, [etc.].
2008 P. Gripton Happy Life 294 A second roundabout at the southern end of the village, where the road goes off through Selborne to Alton.
10. intransitive. Of a plan or arrangement, esp. for marriage: to fail to be carried out, fall through. Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > collapse or come to nothing
forworthc1000
folda1250
quailc1450
fruster?a1513
to come to nothing1523
to give out?1523
to fall to the ground?1526
quealc1530
to come to, end in, vanish into, smoke1604
intercide1637
to fall to dirt1670
to go off1740
to fall through1770
to fall apart1833
collapse1838
to run into the sand (also, now less commonly, sands)1872
to blow up1934
to blow out1939
1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 349 Miss Tomlins, a rich Heiress that was proposed for his Wife, when he was just come from his Travels; but which went off, after all was agreed upon on both the Friends Sides.
1749 T. Gray Let. 8 Aug. in Corr. (1971) I. 324 I know not how, it has gone off again, & we have heard no more lately about it.
1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice II. ii. 18 It seems likely to have been a desirable match... I am sorry it went off . View more context for this quotation
1884 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 25 493 The marriage may go off.
1890 Sat. Rev. 20 Dec. 714/1 If he died the bargain must go off.
1977 Times 24 Feb. 8/6 The settlement went off because among the terms proposed by Sir James was one designed to protect his solicitor from being libelled, which Private Eye negotiators found unacceptable.
11. intransitive.
a. To succumb to a fit of emotion, etc.; to break into laughter. Chiefly with in, into.
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1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. ix. 279 He went off into his ecstasies again.
1800 M. Edgeworth Castle Rackrent 86 My lady..went off into a fit of hysterics.
1844 Fraser's Mag. 30 65/2 She went off in a fit.
1950 D. L. Teilhet Happy Island 215 When something tickled her or caught her fancy she would go off into extravagant peals.
1964 I. Murdoch Ital. Girl i. ii. 29 Abandoning all attempt at concealment he went off into a fit of gargantuan mirth.
1971 P. White Let. 4 July (1994) xi. 381 Their Spanish maid..went off into hysterics.
1997 W. Self Great Apes (1998) xvii. 304 He seemed to find this very funny and went off into a great clacking and gnashing fit of laughter.
b. To burst into unrestrained action; to break into extravagant, fanciful, irrelevant, or unintelligible language or speech; to digress, set off at a tangent. Chiefly with in, into, on.
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the mind > will > intention > unintentional or unplanned character > [verb (intransitive)]
to go off1812
the mind > will > intention > unintentional or unplanned character > [verb (intransitive)] > act or do without planning
improvise1788
to go off1812
improvisatize1830
autoschediaze1852
wing1959
ad hoc1960
audible1970
1812 Eclectic Rev. Dec. 1286 These juvenile reverie-weavers..used to go off into heroics and romantics in the intercourse of kindred-genius in their boy-friendships.
1844 Fraser's Mag. 30 467/1 In the intervals of the most lugubrious chants..the organ went off with some extremely cheerful..air.
1863 Athenæum 14 Mar. 360/3 The story goes off into nonsense and futility.
1907 Christian Reg. (Boston) 15 Aug. 889/1 Some of them went off into wild religious and social fanaticisms.
1919 Experimenter Nov. 12 He would go off on a lengthy disertation [sic] of his theories.
1988 P. McCutchan Convoy North 177 Napper rooted about in his medical stores and went off into a loud moan.
2009 J. Zurell Once upon Horse viii. 151 She went off into a long, rambling anecdote about some kind thing Claire had done for somebody.
c. colloquial. to go off at (a person): to berate or reproach someone angrily; to launch into a tirade against someone.See also to go off on one at one adj., n., and pron. Phrases 5c.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] > scold
chidec1230
ban1340
tongue1388
rate1393
flite14..
rehetec1400
janglec1430
chafec1485
rattle1542
berate1548
quarrel1587
hazen?1608
bequarrel1624
huff1674
shrewa1687
to claw away, off1692
tongue-pad1707
to blow up1710
scold1718
rag1739
redd1776
bullyraga1790
jaw1810
targe1825
haze1829
overhaul1840
tongue-walk1841
trim1882
to call down1883
tongue-lash1887
roar1917
to go off at (a person)1941
chew1948
wrinch2009
1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 31 Go off at, to reprove, express anger towards someone.
1948 D. Ballantyne Cunninghams ii. xi. 214 He had to get away home else his father would go off at him.
2006 C. Salewicz Redempt. Song xxvi. 563 You didn't know whether he was going to go off at you or at somebody else. You'd just wait for him to snap out of it.
12. intransitive. Of a light, electrical appliance, etc.: to go out, be turned off.
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1859 Kitford: Village Tale xviii. 222 When the lights went off, he dozed off.., and the return of the lamps, had failed to arouse him.
1888 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 13 Jan. 179/1 When the battery is turned upside down the light goes off.
1966 Pop. Mech. Oct. 200/1 You're plunged into darkness, your radio goes off, the TV picture shrinks to a little dot and disappears.
2000 M. Yorke Case to Answer (2001) 173 At last the television went off. Its faint sound had almost sent her into a doze.
13. intransitive. slang and colloquial. To have an orgasm.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have orgasm
die1600
come1604
to go off1887
to come off1909
orgasm1973
1887 Autobiogr. of Flea xi. 158 Ambrose felt himself about to go off in rapturous emission right into the body of the girl under him.
1898 Pauline, Prima Donna iii. 67 It wasn't 'till he attempted to press his face between my thighs that I called a halt, and only then because I had gone off twice.
1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover xiv. 244 They always make you go off when you're not in the only place you should be, when you go off.
1949 H. Miller Sexus I. ii. 82 Bango! I went off like a whale.
2009 W. Mansfield in E. Summers Unmasked II. 26 I closed my eyes. I wanted to concentrate on the feeling of him going off inside me.
14. intransitive. Of plaster, glue, etc.: to dry or set.
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1891 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 39 230/2 Follow on with the final coat [of plaster]... When this..has ‘gone off’ properly, you can get to work upon your ground.
1913 Concrete & Constructional Engin. 8 388 Render in coats about ¼ in. thick... The following coats should be put on as soon as preceding coat has gone off.
1988 On Board May 40/1 The resin..takes on a rubbery form before it fully goes off and is easy to cut with a razor.
2009 G. Button & W. Sharrock Stud. Work & Workplace in HCI vii. 87 The glue went off very quickly making it difficult to apply the tile.
15. intransitive. Surfing. Of the surf: to break under optimal conditions. Of a surfing location: to have such optimal surf.
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1985 Amer. Photogr. July 49/3 The surf has gone from wild to flat, but there are rumors of some really big stuff going off on the other side of the island.
1988 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 11 Nov. 53 He..looked out to sea, over the strong groundswells bashing the Bondi sands. ‘Queensland would be going off,’ he said.
1995 F. Reiss Gidget must Die vii. 152 I'm talking about hours of waves... Sometimes the left goes off. It gets hollow and tubes.
2000 Periplus Action Guide: Surfing Hawaii 74/2 You can tell if it's going off or not by looking at it from the beach.
 to go on
I. To proceed, continue, progress.
1. intransitive.
a. Of an action, work, process, or state of affairs: to proceed, continue further; to be in progress; to happen, occur, take place. Also of time or a period of time: to pass, elapse.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > progress or advance in an action [verb (intransitive)] > make progress or advance (of action or operation)
fremec1000
furtherc1200
profit1340
to go onc1449
grow1487
to commence to, intoa1500
framea1529
to get ground?1529
movec1540
work1566
promove1570
advance1577
devolve1579
to come on1584
progress1612
to gain ground1625
germinate1640
proceed1670
to gather ground1697
march1702
to make its way1711
to come forward1722
develop1744
to turn a wheel1864
shape1865
come1899
the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > proceed or carry on an action [verb (intransitive)] > be carried on or proceed
wharvec888
passa1393
proceed?a1439
stir1526
progress1600
to go on1735
the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)]
becomec888
i-tidec888
falleOE
ywortheOE
i-limp975
belimpOE
i-timeOE
worthOE
tidea1131
goa1200
arearc1275
syec1275
betide1297
fere1297
risea1350
to come aboutc1350
overcomea1382
passa1393
comea1400
to come in (also to, on, etc.) placea1400
eschew?a1400
chevec1400
shapec1400
hold1462
to come (also go) to pass1481
proceed?1518
occura1522
bechance1527
overpass1530
sorta1535
succeed1537
adventurec1540
to fall toc1540
success1545
to fall forth1569
fadge1573
beword?1577
to fall in1578
happen1580
event1590
arrive1600
offer1601
grow1614
fudge1615
incur1626
evene1654
obvene1654
to take place1770
transpire1775
to go on1873
to show up1879
materialize1885
break1914
cook1932
to go down1946
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 90 Grees goon on out of gree and prechingis rennen arere.
1572 Treat. Treasons against Q. Elizabeth ii. f. 131v The losses and detriments thereof partly are, and more wil be irrecouerable and aboue all recompense, if it go on vnpreuented in time.
1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. ix. xxiv. 842/1 Their rebellions still going on, Proclamations came forth denouncing them Traitors to their Queene and Countrey.
1689 J. Partridge Mene Mene,Tekel Upharsin 17 The discovery of some Traiterous Design that hath been going on for some time.
1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 18 Nov. (1948) II. 416 This business..had it gone on, would have cost three times as much.
1735 J. Price Some Considerations Stone-bridge Thames 6 Two Piers..at proper Distances,..both to go on at the same time.
1844 Fraser's Mag. 30 119/1 This state of things cannot possibly go on.
1859 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 643/1 A thunderstorm was going on.
1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 408 As time went on, the English court grew impatient.
1873 C. M. Yonge Pillars of House I. iii. 55 How long has this been going on?
1904 Pearson's Mag. Mar. 320/1 As the days went on we got more and more hungry.
1955 Times 30 June 8/3 The governing council has in a sense admitted that it did not know all that went on.
1990 G. G. Liddy Monkey Handlers vi. 89 This didn't happen yesterday; it's been going on for years.
b. to be going on with: to start with; for the time being. Frequently in enough to be going on with.
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1909 Worker (Brisbane) 6 Feb. 4/2 Inculcate Socialism. Yes, but grab all you can to be going on with.
1953 Times 15 Jan. 10/1 The unexpended funds left from previous appropriations are enough by themselves to be going on with.
1968 Listener 29 Aug. 260/3 Milton seems to have thought the English climate was a punishment for sin. In which case we have surely been punished enough to be going on with.
2007 N. J. Thrift Non-representational Theory (2008) 255 There are plenty of crises to be going on with.
2. intransitive.
a. imperative. Used to encourage or persuade a person to do something or proceed with a course of action. Frequently expressed as a challenge.
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a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 32 Go on..for we woll all that we may.
1566 T. Nuce in J. Studley tr. Seneca Agamemnon sig. Ciii Yet be not thou dismaid, go on, and bolden well thy selfe.
1572 T. Wilson Disc. Vsurye f. 25v It is more easye for a camell to go throughe a needles eye, then for a couetous man to enter into heauen. Therefore go on you ryche men,..weepe and bewaile your miseries.
1678 T. Shadwell Hist. Timon v. 77 Go on, Be a devouring Plague; let not Thy Sword skip one.
1717 Mughouse Diversion 19 Go on, you Loyal Londoners, and shew All other Towns ye can and will outdo, In Grandeur, Order, Zeal, and Numbers too.
1844 J. Smith Let. 2 Jan. in B. H. Roberts Rise & Fall Nauvoo (1900) App. I. 375 Go on, then, I say; banish the occupants or owners, or kill them,..and take their land and property as spoil.
1882 R. Jefferies Bevis II. xii. 188 ‘I never thought you were so selfish,’ shouted Val. ‘Go on—I won't ask you again.’
1969 A. Fugard Boesman & Lena 22 Go on! Why don't you hit me? There's no white baases here to laugh.
1985 P. Ackroyd Hawksmoor vi. 122 Go on, have a brandy snap. Be a devil.
2004 R. Bowen Evan's Gate xxx. 254 You've got to learn to come to terms with that machine [sc. a computer] someday. Go on. It won't bite.
b. To continue, persevere, or persist in doing something, or in making, dealing with, or using something. Also with †in, with, †infinitive, or with participle.
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the world > action or operation > continuing > continue doing or keep going in a course of action [verb (intransitive)]
to hold a wayOE
to hold forthc1200
to hold ona1225
reignc1300
lasta1325
continuea1340
to continue doing or to doc1384
pursuea1425
perseverec1425
to hold one's wayc1480
prosecute1528
to go on1533
to run on1533
keep1548
to follow on1560
insist1586
to keep on1589
to carry on1832
to carry on1857
string1869
1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. iv. xvi. f. ccxlvi Now vpon his aforesayd suche a proper handeled mocke as you haue herde, mayster masker goeth on, and geueth me ryght holsom admonicyon.
1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 235 Marke how well shee singeth..And goeth on alwayes continuing her songe.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xi. sig. V4 Therefore now (said she) Dorus go on.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 156 I..will here goe on with the description.
1662 S. Pepys Diary 31 Dec. (1970) III. 303 The Bishopps..go on without any diffidence in pressing uniformity.
1737 W. Whiston tr. Josephus Jewish War iv. v, in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. 859 They esteemed it needless to go on with killing them.
1739 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 16 Apr. (1932) (modernized text) II. 362 If you go on to learn at this rate, you will soon puzzle me, in Greek especially.
1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. xv. 362 They go on perversely in bad habits.
1890 Jrnl. Educ. Sept. 478/2 We begin work at 12 and go on till half-past one.
1921 D. H. Lawrence Lost Girl x. 258 ‘Good morning!’ she said, and went on with her tea.
1942 Life 5 Jan. 62 He went on making his speech.
1973 E. M. Ahern Cult of Dead in Chinese Village 233 He went on trying to talk to the woman.
2011 M. Mizrahi in D. Miller & S. Woodward Global Denim v. 117 The girl goes on dancing.
c. To proceed to do something (as the next step); to proceed or progress from one stage, subject, etc., to another.
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the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > progress or advance in an action [verb (intransitive)] > progress or advance to another action
suea1200
goc1275
to pass forthc1384
proceeda1393
to go on1566
1566 T. Heskyns Parl. Chryste i. xiii. f. xxixv I shall go on to bringe in an other figure of the lawe of nature.
1666 A. Marvell Let. 13 Nov. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 44 However I shall go on to continue from my last Letter.
1687 Bp. G. Burnet Contin. Refl. Mr. Varillas's Hist. Heresies 39 He goes on to make a Parallel between the late Protector and King Henry's Minister.
1715 T. Parnell Ess. Homer 56 in A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I We may in general go on to observe, that the time when Homer was born did not abound in Learning.
1775 London Rev. Aug. 159 The writer goes on to illustrate the advantages of blank verse over rhyme.
1824 ‘R. Stuart’ Descr. Hist. Steam Engine 186 They then go on to name a number of individuals on whom ‘the eternal gratitude of all Spaniards is invoked’.
1853 H. Martineau Positive Philos. of Comte II. 427 Before I go on to the next phase, I ought to point out that [etc.].
1915 Amer. Stone Trade 1 Apr. 30/1 He went on to show how religion and architecture worked together all through the ages.
1978 S. Lee & J. Buscema How to draw Comics Marvel Way x. 134 Before we go on to the next chapter, let's just take a minute to review the ‘design’ of the panels.
2004 New Scientist 4 Dec. 9/2 Many young stars in the nebula are surrounded by thick discs of gas and dust that might go on to form planets.
3. intransitive.
a. To continue on a journey (to somewhere).
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > continue on one's course
to hold a wayOE
to hold forthc1200
to go ona1500
a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) l. 6484 Goth on in goddis name.
1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. sig. D.iiii Our armie went on, but so much the slowlyer, because our way was sumwhat narowe.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 332 Goe safely on to seeke thy Son. View more context for this quotation
1739 T. Gray Let. 9 Dec. in Corr. (1971) I. 132 That city..made so frippery an appearance, that instead of spending some days there..we only dined, and went on to Parma.
a1753 P. Drake Memoirs (1755) I. xii. 83 We went on until we came to a small Rivulet.
1822 European Mag. Aug. 140/2 Our traveller, instead of going on towards Tehéran, travelled eastward.
1888 W. Rogers Reminisc. 119 We were told that we should have to go on next day in a caboose.
1916 S. Graham Through Russ. Central Asia viii. 89 The soldiers then stretched themselves out to sleep, and I went on.
1935 M. R. Anand Untouchable 75 He bore the shopkeeper's abuse silently and went on.
1985 A. Kenny Path from Rome (1986) vi. 86 We went on at a great rate up the Summit ridge.
2012 Independent 12 Mar. 17/1 The same young man went on to Rio and capered around there.
b. imperative. Expressing (playful) impatience or dismissiveness, or (mock) disbelief, derision, etc.: ‘get away’. Also in go on with you. Cf. to go along 1b at Phrasal verbs 1; garn int. Now somewhat archaic.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > expressions of disbelief [interjection]
to go toc1275
in good timea1470
Walker1811
to get off1818
this beats my grandmother1819
to go on1835
your granny!1837
to get away1847
I ask you1855
great guns!1875
sure1907
oh yeah1927
Aunt Fanny1928
go 'long1974
to sod off1976
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > exclamation of surprise [interjection]
whatOE
well, wellOE
avoyc1300
ouc1300
ay1340
lorda1393
ahaa1400
hillaa1400
whannowc1450
wow1513
why?1520
heydaya1529
ah1538
ah me!a1547
fore me!a1547
o me!a1547
what the (also a) goodyear1570
precious coals1576
Lord have mercy (on us)1581
good heavens1588
whau1589
coads1590
ay me!1591
my stars!a1593
Gods me1595
law1598
Godso1600
to go out1600
coads-nigs1608
for mercy!a1616
good stars!1615
mercy on us (also me, etc.)!a1616
gramercy1617
goodness1623
what next?1662
mon Dieu1665
heugh1668
criminy1681
Lawd1696
the dickens1697
(God, etc.) bless my heart1704
alackaday1705
(for) mercy's sake!1707
my1707
deuce1710
gracious1712
goodly and gracious1713
my word1722
my stars and garters!1758
lawka1774
losha1779
Lord bless me (also you, us, etc.)1784
great guns!1795
mein Gott1795
Dear me!1805
fancy1813
well, I'm sure!1815
massy1817
Dear, dear!1818
to get off1818
laws1824
Mamma mia1824
by crikey1826
wisha1826
alleleu1829
crackey1830
Madonna mia1830
indeed1834
to go on1835
snakes1839
Jerusalem1840
sapristi1840
oh my days1841
tear and ages1841
what (why, etc.) in time?1844
sakes alive!1846
gee willikers1847
to get away1847
well, to be sure!1847
gee1851
Great Scott1852
holy mackerel!1855
doggone1857
lawsy1868
my wig(s)!1871
gee whiz1872
crimes1874
yoicks1881
Christmas1882
hully gee1895
'ullo1895
my hat!1899
good (also great) grief!1900
strike me pink!1902
oo-er1909
what do you know?1909
cripes1910
coo1911
zowiec1913
can you tie that?1918
hot diggety1924
yeow1924
ziggety1924
stone (or stiffen) the crows1930
hullo1931
tiens1932
whammo1932
po po po1936
how about that?1939
hallo1942
brother1945
tie that!1948
surprise1953
wowee1963
yikes1971
never1974
to sod off1976
whee1978
mercy1986
yipes1989
1835 F. W. Thomas Clinton Bradshaw II. xiv. 268 ‘Go on now, Bradshaw!’ shouted a number, while others told him to be off, ‘you won't do.’
1897 O. Read Odd Folks 65 Oh, go on with you. You are enough to make a cat laugh.
1908 Pacific Unitarian Dec. 61/1 Ah, Go on wid yer blarney.
1960 H. Pinter Dumb Waiter 124 Ben. The lorry started and ran over him. Gus. Go on! Ben. That's what it says here. Gus. Get away.
2001 R. Hough Final Confession Mabel Stark 119 Figuring this was as close to a joke as Louis Roth was ever going to make, I laughed..and said, ‘Oh go on with you.’
c. To leave an engagement, party, etc., and go to another somewhere else.
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society > leisure > social event > [verb (intransitive)] > participate in social events > go on to another
to go on1902
1902 Mrs. H. Ward Lady Rose's Daughter i, in Harper's Mag. May 857/2 ‘Now, you are going on,’ said Lady Henry... ‘Bertie says I must,’ said the other.
1934 P. Bottome Private Worlds iii. 29 Charles noticed that Myra was elaborately dressed... She must be going on somewhere else afterwards.
1961 F. Lockridge & R. Lockridge Murder out of Turn (1962) ix. 98 Faith Constable had had to ‘go on’ from the party and had, presumably, gone on.
2000 D. Courtney Raving Lunacy (2002) i. 8 It ended about one o'clock and everyone wanted to go on some place else. The only club I could think of was the Aquarium.
†4. intransitive. In military contexts: to make an attack (against or upon an enemy). Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (intransitive)]
to lay ona1225
assailc1325
sailc1330
assemblea1375
to fall inc1384
to fall ona1387
givec1430
brunt1440
to set (all) on sevenc1440
to ding on1487
to fall down1534
offend1540
to go on1553
to give on?1611
to let fly1611
strikea1616
insult1638
to set on1670
aggress1708
to carry the war into the enemy's camp1791
hop over1929
1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. iv. f. 67 When he had put them in harte, he required them to presse forwardes, and go on frely against their enemies [L. ire in hostem].
1596 Z. Jones tr. M. Barleti Hist. G. Castriot ix. 341 They went on presently against the enemie, who made no lesse haste to encounter with them.
1611 B. Jonson Catiline i. sig. B3 Bold Cethegus, Whose valour I haue..prais'd so into daring, as he would Goe on vpon the Gods. View more context for this quotation
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 165 They attempted another Trench..the Serjeant in going on was shot through the body.
1686 T. Otway tr. S. de Broë Hist. Triumvirates II. xlix. 440 Now we may go on upon the Enemy.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. To go on, to make an attack.
5. intransitive.
a. To continue in spoken or written discourse; to resume saying something after a short pause. Also used to report direct speech.
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1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 307 And so he goes on in a long flagging discourse.
1619 T. Oldmayne Gods Rebuke 49 What shall become of mee poore sinner? Thus he went on, we standing in the meane time with watrie eyes about his bed.
1708 J. Oldmixon Brit. Empire in Amer. II. 9 He goes on, ‘About the time I left the Island, [etc.]’.
1774 J. Hanway Virtue in Humble Life II. i. vi. 197 She goes on, ‘I was from everlasting, [etc.]’.
1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. Jan. 23/2 They looked up, and prayed me not to go on about their uncle, but to tell them some stories about their pretty dead mother.
1850 M. M. Howard Compton Merivale xxii. 312 I need not go on any further; I have told you enough to show you a little of my method.
1918 H. K. Webster Amer. Family xxviii. 363 ‘I do want to talk to you,’ she went on, ‘only not that talk.’
2009 M. Glorie Bookshop on Jacaranda St. iv. 26 Astrid paused, and took a deep breath before going on.
b. colloquial. To talk excessively, tiresomely, or interminably (about something or at someone). Also: to talk volubly; to rail, storm; to scold or criticize; to nag.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > speak loudly or angrily
thundera1340
raisec1384
to speak outc1515
jowlc1540
fulmine1623
to talk big1680
tang1686
to speak upa1723
to go ona1753
rip1828
whalea1852
yap1864
to rip and tear1884
megaphone1901
to pop off1914
foghorn1918
to sound off1918
loudmouth1931
woof1934
the mind > language > speech > repetition > repeat [verb (intransitive)] > dwell on something
to harp upon, on (of), a, one, the same (etc.) string?1531
to sing the same (or one) song1551
chant1572
ding1582
to go on1863
to keep on1907
riff1952
a1753 S. Bownas Acct. Life (1756) 87 I did sundry Times start other Subjects, which he would soon get off, and go on about his own Experiences.
1818 J. Keats Let. 17 July (1947) lxxviii. 188 They went on about ‘interesting creaters’ and ‘human nater’ till the Curtain fell.
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters vi. 162 Her first scene with Fenton is inimitable, where she goes on about a wart on his face.
1873 Argosy 16 361 He would go on at Fred for making himself common.
1878 Scribner's Monthly 16 415/2 He went on dreadful because he couldn't get at his ladder.
1921 M. Arlen Romantic Lady 235 For God's sake don't go on about it, Iris, else I won't be able to bear it at all.
1966 Listener 30 June 960/1 Oh, how it [sc. the wrangling] does go on!
2010 J. McGregor Even the Dogs 191 She kept going on at him to find another job.
c. colloquial. Of a person: to act or behave in a conspicuous, disagreeable, or reprehensible way; to ‘carry on’.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > behave badly [verb (intransitive)]
misbehave1703
misdemean1765
to go on1778
to cut up1787
perform1891
to act out1913
1778 A. Murphy Know your own Mind i. 2 If I see any thing wrong, I accost him directly: Look ye, Sir, do you think to go on in this fashion? Not during my life, I promise you.
1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal i. i. 9 Sad news upon his arrival, to hear how your brother has gone on.
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I cxlvi. 76 How dare you think your lady would go on so?
1890 F. Barrett Between Life & Death II. xvii. 12 She is playing the fool to go on in this style.
1915 Mrs. H. Tremlett Looking for Grace xii. 156 They're a treacherous lot of hounds. Look at the way they're going on at present!
1972 J. Johnston Captains & Kings 124 Messing about,..forever messing about. You'll never get anywhere if you go on like that. Maybe the army'll teach you a thing or two.
1994 M. Binchy in Irish Times (Nexis) 26 Mar. (Suppl.) 2 [Being unpunctual] is in fact a lazy, self-indulgent, discourteous way of going on.
6. intransitive. To get on, fare, prosper (well, badly, etc.); to manage (without something). Now somewhat rare.
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1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 39 We went on very sociably together.
1764 J. Wesley Let. 25 May (1931) IV. 245 But how do Thomas Maxfield and his friends go on?
1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 10 356 For the first two days he went on very well.
1820 R. Southey Life Wesley II. 164 Still it [sc. the school] went on badly.
1879 M. J. Guest Lect. Hist. Eng. xlvii. 475 The king now determined to go on without parliament at all.
1916 Vet. Jrnl. Apr. 137 This cow went on wonderfully well and needed no further attention.
2011 A. C. Grayling Good Bk. 19/2 Do not demand that things should happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.
7. intransitive. going on for: approaching (a certain age, time, or period of time); almost, nearly. Cf. going on —— at Phrasal verbs 2, to be getting on for (to, towards) at get v. Phrasal verbs 1. Also in going on towards.
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1792 T. Beddoes Hist. Isaac Jenkins 37 Although it be now going on for ten years, since it happened, I still distinctly remember my attendance on the wife and children of Isaac Jenkins.
1848 J. H. Newman Loss & Gain 195 I was very uncomfortable about the Articles, going on for two years since.
1887 M. E. Martin Amor Vincit II. xiii. 265 I shall be twenty-three, going on for twenty-four.
1891 M. M. Dowie Girl in Karpathians xiii. 174 It was going on for eight o'clock.
1904 M. J. Homes Rena's Exper. xiii. 196 Miss Burdick, Miss Burdick, where be you? It's going on for one o'clock.
1912 B. Thomas Picture Tales from Welsh Hills (1913) i. 32 I came over, to find father still living, though going on for ninety years old.
1936 H. Miller Black Spring 139 It's going on towards evening.
2011 M. Jennings Season of Darkness (2012) xxii. 137 It must have been going on for seven o'clock.
II. To act or undergo action so as to be ‘on’.
8. intransitive. Of a component, article of dress, etc.: to admit of being fitted or put on.
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1767 Suppl. Ferguson's Bk. of Lectures 31 The crooked end of the stile is put into a hole in the top AD of the cylinder; and the top goes on tightish.
1811 Weekly Visitor 26 Jan. 184/1 The dress goes on;—and I assure you, never bark upon the trunk of a tree fitted better.
1861 Temple Bar 1 270 Shoes that wouldn't go on, and muskets that wouldn't go off.
1901 Primary Educ. Oct. 370/2 The ten eager eyes caught a glimpse of some bright crayons and some long strips of soft, white paper inside the box, before the cover went on again.
1950 Life 20 Feb. 4/2 (advt.) This shirt goes on like any other, zipper separates at the bottom. No buttons to come off or break!
2008 M. Gloss Hearts of Horses xvi. 137 The corduroy dress went on cold and stiff over her shoulders.
9. intransitive.
a. Originally Theatre. Of a performer or group of performers: to appear in a theatrical role; to go on stage (in a play, or to perform a concert). Also: (of a play, show, etc.) to be staged; (of a television or radio programme, etc.) to be broadcast (cf. to go out 5b at Phrasal verbs 1).
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > act [verb (intransitive)]
playa1450
to play (also act) a (also one's) part1540
representa1547
act1598
interlude1608
personate1623
to tread the stage (the boards)1691
perform1724
to go on1769
theatricalize1794
histrionize1851
play-act1856
1769 S. Barry Let. 27 Oct. in D. Garrick Private Corr. (1831) I. 370 The managers..expected she would continue to go on in the pageant as long as she was able.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xiv. 123 The daughter of a theatrical fireman, who ‘went on’ in the pantomime.
1888 ‘F. Warden’ Witch of Hills I. vii. 157 I only got small parts, and it's dreadful to have to go on with nothing to say.
1893 Algona (Iowa) Courier 15 Dec. 4/1 The play went on at the stated time and seemed to be well appreciated.
1938 Scribner's Mag. Mar. 15/1 It lasts without interruptions till the first show goes on, at 4 o'clock.
1962 F. X. Bushman in P. Martin Pete Martin calls On… vi. 97 I learned all the lines of all the shows I suped in. I was ready to go on in any part if they needed me.
1992 J. Smith in C. Deffaa Voices of Jazz Age viii. 199 At Smalls's, the band went on at nine and played until six the next morning.
1999 Fixing our Schools from Bottom Up (Hearing before U.S. House Comm. on Budget, 106th Congr., 1st Sess.) 51 They have a curriculum to go with..programs..like ‘Sesame Street’, and..the teacher can read to the kids about it before the program goes on.
2010 N.Y. Mag. 28 June 81/1 If a transporter could send me from the bed..to the stage five minutes before I go on, then immediately back to bed, I would love it.
2012 M. Morpurgo in Independent (Nexis) 16 Dec. The play has become a living thing. It goes on every night, five casts, all over the world.
b. To begin a work shift; to go on duty.
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1817 1st Rep. Comm. State Police Metropolis 110 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 233) VII. 1 Our watchmen go on at nine, and leave at six.
1873 Parl. Deb. (Victoria, Austral.) 16 213/2 There were mines at Ballarat in which a shift went on at four o'clock and worked up to eleven o'clock.
1953 J. Reach Women in White i. 20 I've got to go on at twelve, so I think I'll try to get a little nap before dinner.
2010 Waterloo (Canada) Chron. (Nexis) 16 Apr. 1 I don't know how staff can work without knowing what the patient is there for... Nobody was communicating. One shift goes off, another shift goes on.
c. Cricket. Of a bowler: to begin a spell of bowling.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > bowl [verb (intransitive)] > begin to bowl
to go on1840
to come on1860
1840 Sporting Rev. July 59 Redgate went on again and bowled one over, when time was called, and the wickets were drawn.
1861 Times 25 May 9/4 A change of bowling was tried, Atkinson going on at Hodgson's end.
1890 Field 24 May 752/1 A double change of bowling was tried, Sharpe and Abel going on.
1902 Eton College Chron. 3 July 120 Forty was telegraphed just before five o'clock, and Murray went on for Sandeman.
2010 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 26 Jan. (Sport section) 15 Richie then went on and bowled with great pace and in good areas.
d. Sport. Of a team member: to be brought on to the field of play to join the game (at some point after the start of play).
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1901 E. Robinson Captain of School ix. 96 I'd go on as substitute, but Dr. Burnham says I must n't use my ankle for another week.
1966 Irish Times 5 July 3/3 Carey, who had had a hand injury.., went on in the second half [of a hurling match].
1989 Sunday Times (Nexis) 23 July Waddle was fortunate in his debut; able to go on at half-time against a team which had already conceded three gift goals.
2014 S. Wales Echo (Nexis) 15 Apr. 45 He went on for Luke Coulson at full-back after 65 minutes.
10. intransitive. Of a light, electrical appliance, etc.: to be switched on; to start working.
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1888 W. H. Meadowcroft ABC of Electr. 73 The carbon..breaks, and the light ceases. When this happens, we unscrew the lamp and put another one in, and the light goes on as usual.
1930 N.Y. Times 14 July 18/6 Another convenient design is so arranged that the phone is cut off when the radio goes on.
1989 T. Bodett End of Road ii. xii. 124 When the lights went on and the siren lit off, the traffic parted before them like the Red Sea.
2013 J. DeGarmo Foster Parenting Man. vi. 66 Make sure that all homework and after-school chores are attended to first before the television goes on.
 to go out
I. Senses primarily relating to physical movement.
1. intransitive.
a. To move or travel from within somewhere, or out of a building, room, etc.; to go outdoors; esp. to go away from one's home.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)]
outgoeOE
to come outOE
forthcomeOE
to go outOE
to go outOE
ishc1330
to take forth one's way (also journey, road, etc.)a1375
proceedc1380
getc1390
exorta1400
issue?a1400
precedec1425
purgea1430
to come forthc1449
suea1450
ushc1475
to call one's way (also course)1488
to turn outa1500
void1558
redound1565
egress1578
outpacea1596
result1598
pursue1651
out1653
pop1770
to get out1835
progress1851
OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 416 Albanus eode ut to þam ehterum mid ðæs preostes hakelan.
OE West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) xi. 43 Ða he ðas þing sæde, he clypode mycelre stefne, Lazarus, ga ut [L. veni foras].
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 45 Ameiden..iacobes dochter..heode vt to seon vncuðe wimmen.
a1275 St. Margaret (Trin. Cambr.) l. 135 in A. S. M. Clark Seint Maregrete & Body & Soul (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 42 Al þet blod þat in hire was, out it ede þo.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. vii. 3 Go out in to aȝencomyng of Achaz.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 10951 He bad þe folk go out vchone Whil he preyed in þe chirche al one.
1480 Cronicles Eng. (Caxton) iii. sig. a5v That Coryn priuely sholde gone oute and bussh hym in a wode til amorne.
1549 J. Ponet Def. Mariage Priestes sig. Eviv I can not nor wyll not come because of a promise yt I haue made to abide within the walles of my hous and neuer to go out all the daies of my life.
a1625 J. Fletcher Rule a Wife (1640) iii. 33 When she went out this morning..Shee had two women at the doore attending.
1679 R. Carleton Diana i. 5 A workman going out at day-break about his business, had spied a gentleman-like-man going into a little Cottage.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 137. ⁋3 She calls for her Coach, then commands it in again, and then she will not go out at all.
1727 D. Defoe Ess. Hist. Apparitions iv. 30 He can appear tho' the Doors be shut; and go out, tho' bolted and barr'd in.
1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) iii. 24 Mr. Peggotty went out to wash himself in a kettleful of hot water.
1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies i. 10 Instead of going out to dinner at half-past eight.
1934 D. Thomas Let. 9 May (1987) 133 Let me go out for my much-talked of walk.
1960 ‘Miss Read’ Fresh from Country (1962) xi. 113 At school the children sniffed and coughed and rubbed chilblained toes and fingers. They disliked going out to play in the freezing playground.
2006 H. Hamilton Harbor Boys v. 43 I stopped to glance sideways at myself in the mirror before going out.
†b. imperative. In form gout. Expressing dismissal, impatience, derision, incredulity, or surprise. Cf. to go on 3b at Phrasal verbs 1. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > exclamation of surprise [interjection]
whatOE
well, wellOE
avoyc1300
ouc1300
ay1340
lorda1393
ahaa1400
hillaa1400
whannowc1450
wow1513
why?1520
heydaya1529
ah1538
ah me!a1547
fore me!a1547
o me!a1547
what the (also a) goodyear1570
precious coals1576
Lord have mercy (on us)1581
good heavens1588
whau1589
coads1590
ay me!1591
my stars!a1593
Gods me1595
law1598
Godso1600
to go out1600
coads-nigs1608
for mercy!a1616
good stars!1615
mercy on us (also me, etc.)!a1616
gramercy1617
goodness1623
what next?1662
mon Dieu1665
heugh1668
criminy1681
Lawd1696
the dickens1697
(God, etc.) bless my heart1704
alackaday1705
(for) mercy's sake!1707
my1707
deuce1710
gracious1712
goodly and gracious1713
my word1722
my stars and garters!1758
lawka1774
losha1779
Lord bless me (also you, us, etc.)1784
great guns!1795
mein Gott1795
Dear me!1805
fancy1813
well, I'm sure!1815
massy1817
Dear, dear!1818
to get off1818
laws1824
Mamma mia1824
by crikey1826
wisha1826
alleleu1829
crackey1830
Madonna mia1830
indeed1834
to go on1835
snakes1839
Jerusalem1840
sapristi1840
oh my days1841
tear and ages1841
what (why, etc.) in time?1844
sakes alive!1846
gee willikers1847
to get away1847
well, to be sure!1847
gee1851
Great Scott1852
holy mackerel!1855
doggone1857
lawsy1868
my wig(s)!1871
gee whiz1872
crimes1874
yoicks1881
Christmas1882
hully gee1895
'ullo1895
my hat!1899
good (also great) grief!1900
strike me pink!1902
oo-er1909
what do you know?1909
cripes1910
coo1911
zowiec1913
can you tie that?1918
hot diggety1924
yeow1924
ziggety1924
stone (or stiffen) the crows1930
hullo1931
tiens1932
whammo1932
po po po1936
how about that?1939
hallo1942
brother1945
tie that!1948
surprise1953
wowee1963
yikes1971
never1974
to sod off1976
whee1978
mercy1986
yipes1989
1600 Looke about You xviii. E 3 Gout I haue curtall'd what I could not borrow.
1600 Looke about You xix. E 3 b Glo. Gods mother doe you scorne me? Io. Gout, what then?
c. Sport. Of a ball, etc.: to land outside the field of play after being struck or thrown; to pass beyond the boundary line of a pitch. Hence of a shot, throw, etc.: which causes this.
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1873 Derby Mercury 26 Feb. 8/4 The first bit of noteworthy play was..by Mr. Owen, who was met in his career by a Sheffield player, and the ball went out.
1889 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Jan. 286 When the game commences or the ball goes out ‘a bully’, which is nothing more nor less than a Rugby scrummage, is formed.
1922 Amer. Lawn Tennis 15 Jan. 557/2 He is never slow to express his disgust outwardly as his favorite shot goes out by inches.
1952 W. Mace Tennis Techniques Illustr. viii. 52 If the spin is so great, that the serve goes out, move your sights over and serve to the right of the intended court.
1979 V. I. Spear Sports Illustr. Racquetball ii. 73 When the live ball came in, the lob shot went out. The hopped-up rubber was just too difficult to control.
2005 Times 27 Apr. (The Game section) 10/2 (caption) George Graham is a frustrated spectator as Tommy Lawrence watches the ball go out in the 1965 FA Cup semi-final at Villa Park.
2. intransitive. To go out for a specified or implied purpose.
a. To march as a soldier; to leave one's home or country for a war or battlefield; (later spec.) to join either of the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745 (historical), or to go to the battlefields of France and Belgium in the First World War (1914–18). Also: †to take part in a duel (obsolete). Frequently in to go out to fight.
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society > armed hostility > war > wage war [verb (intransitive)] > go to war
to take the plainc1380
to go to war or warsc1450
to take the field1482
to go (etc.) on warfare1483
to pass (forth) in warfare1483
field1535
to go out1548
to go to the war(s)1600
to be (also go) on the warpath1841
to wash one's spears1892
society > armed hostility > war > wage war [verb (intransitive)] > go to war > in a foreign country
to go out1917
1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. sig. c.viiiv Men goyng out, neuer better at any tyme in all poyntes appoynted, neuer better besene, wyth more courage and gladder wyll.
1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes 891 There are manie moe things appointed to the Prince, than to go out before the people to warre.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 114 There are other men fitter to go out then I. View more context for this quotation
1688 P. Rycaut tr. G. de la Vega Royal Comm. Peru (new ed.) vi. xx. 889 Both Principals and Seconds went out to fight in a Field at a good distance from Potocsi.
1785 G. A. Bellamy Apol. Life III. lxiv. 84 Impelled by his natural bravery..he went out as a volunteer to the army in Germany.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. (at cited word) He went out with a brother officer, and was slightly wounded.
1870 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (ed. 18) vi. 228 One of the lairds..proposed to go out, on the occasion of one of the risings for the Stuarts.
1890 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 626 He must go out or be under a social ban. Out they go accordingly, and the trained pistol-shot kills his civilian opponent.
1917 S. McKenna Sonia viii. 394 ‘Is David going out?.. What's he in?’ ‘The Midland Fusiliers.’
1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War i. 1 I read the notice that I was under orders for France... Berry, a subaltern of my set,..might pipe to me, ‘Hi, Blunden, we're going out: have a drink;’ I could not dance.
1936 S. Sassoon Sherston's Progress ii. i. 98 She had hoped and prayed that I might get a home-service job; but now she just accepted the fact that I'd got to go out again.
2006 D. Winner Those Feet 263 His face is..full of pluck and hope—the sort of look I hope to see in my general when I go out to fight.
b. With complement indicating the nature of employment. Of a woman or child: to seek employment outside of the home (often considered as characteristic of low social status). Frequently in to go out to service at service n.1 17a. Now rare.
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society > occupation and work > working > [verb (intransitive)] > begin working
to fall to work1523
fall1589
to go out1660
to put (also set) to work1694
to turn to1799
1660 J. Bellamy tr. Origen Against Celsus xxvi. 108 He reproaches him with..having a Woman to his Mother, that got her Livelyhood by going out to Service.
1726 A. Castres tr. A. Guevarre Ways & Means for suppressing Beggary 96 As to the young Women, who intend to go out to Service, it will be proper to employ them in all Manner of Work.
1796 C. Durnford & E. H. East Rep. Cases King's Bench VI. 250 The daughter's having gone out as a wet-nurse, which it is said amounts to an emancipation.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxii. 348 Betsy Martin... Goes out charing and washing, by the day.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 330 His boys followed the plough; and his girls went out to service.
1889 C. E. Cameron Lost Wife II. v. 61 ‘Something to do’ meant in my case going out as a governess, or as a companion.
1908 Secret Service 24 Jan. 4/1 Jennie went out to service in a summer hotel and supported her sister.
c. To mix in general society; to go out or away from home for the purpose of leisure or socializing, or to enjoy the nightlife of a town or city.
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society > society and the community > social relations > have social communication [verb (intransitive)] > mix in society
show1631
to go out1735
to see life1763
mix1816
to get out1835
1735 tr. J. Bernard in Bayle's Gen. Dict. Hist. & Crit. (new ed.) III. 266/1 I have no clubs, nor great communication with the living; I seldom go out, and when my ordinary occupations cease, I have nothing else to do but to be weary of myself.
a1777 S. Foote Devil upon Two Sticks (1778) iii. 67 My father, Sir, as we seldom went out, established a domestic kind of drama.
1886 J. McCarthy & R. C. Praed Right Hon'ble I. iii. 46 Betty liked society, and was made for it. She went out incessantly.
1890 Temple Bar Jan. 24 We do not intend to go out at all in Florence—I mean into society.
1939 Life 29 May 36 (advt.) Sure... I'd love to go out tonight. About 9 o'clock.
1989 J. A. Scott Blair 70 Debra wanted to go out all the time.
2000 J. Goodwin Danny Boy v. 117 He likes..going out with his mates, getting loaded and having a ruck on a Saturday night.
d. To go hunting; to ride out (with the hounds) to hunt.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (intransitive)]
huntc1000
chasec1320
sporta1635
to go out1749
shikar1872
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. iv. v. 33 The Favour she had to desire of him, was not to lead her Father through so many Dangers in Hunting; for that, from what she had heard, she was terribly frightened every Time they went out together. View more context for this quotation
1773 G. Washington Diary 22 Dec. (1978) III. 220 Went out after Breakfast with the Dogs. Dragd a fox for an hour or two, but never found.
1855 W. B. Bernard Four Sisters ii. 13 Since then, I confess, my taste has turned to hunting; and, as there are hounds all about, I go out every week.
1877 A. Trollope Amer. Senator I. i. 7 He..is not much thought of..except by those who go out with the hounds.
1932 R. Lehmann Invit. Waltz iii. v. 209 ‘Were you out today?’ ‘Oh yes.’.. ‘Um. Going out on Saturday—?’.. ‘Oh, I thought you meant... I misunderstood. I don't—as a matter of fact, I don't really hunt.’
1967 R. Rendell New Lease of Death ii. 24 He's very conscious of his status..since he bought Forby Hall. Goes out with the Pomfret hounds and all that.
2006 B. Johnson Have I got Views for You 146 They are going out with the hounds this Saturday, and if the hounds pick up a fox, so be it.
e. To travel or move overseas (to a specified country) as a settler, ambassador, missionary, agent, etc.
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1772 Scots Mag. Apr. 200/1 Now-a-days every youth possessed of any interest endeavours to go out as a writer to the Company.
1791 Substance of Rep. Court of Directors Sierra Leone Company 10 The mortality among the settlers who went out has been already accounted for.
1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 466/1 An offer being made to him to go out to Australia.
1861 H. A. Jacobs Incidents Life Slave Girl xiii. 75 I am glad that missionaries go out to the dark corners of the earth.
1917 Crisis Dec. 68/1 Max Yergan..heard that call and went out to India.
1980 J. Turner Lloyd George's Secretariat i. 22 After failing to be elected to All Souls he went out to Africa to assist in reconstruction.
2003 M. Backman & C. Butler Big in Asia xi. 143 One expatriate manager..went out to Japan in 1969 with just US$20,000 to be used to develop a business.
†f. Criminals' slang. To go thieving. Obsolete.
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1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 178 Go out, to follow the profession of thieving; two or more persons who usually rob in company, are said to go out together.
1819 J. H. Vaux Memoirs I. xii. 141 We continued to go out with one or other of the gentlemen frequenting the Swan.
1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales (ed. 2) II. xiii. 289 Two..Dublin thieves, who went out with me, are now..first-rate ‘fellers and stumpers’ in a good clearing gang.
g. More fully to go out on strike. To leave work as part of a strike; to strike. Cf. to come out 2c at come v. Phrasal verbs 1.
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society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > participate in labour relations [verb (intransitive)] > strike
strike1769
to turn out1795
to strike work, tools1803
stick1823
to come out1841
to go out1850
to down tools1855
to hit the bricks1931
1850 Glasgow Herald 17 May About three weeks ago, a hundred of the drivers and stokers went out on strike.
1861 Macmillan's Mag. 4 333/1 There has not been a single case of assault..since the men went out.
1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 28 July 5/5 (headline) Men of two mines at Lethbridge go out.
1947 Billboard 21 June 116/1 The men stopped working and we went out in August and September.
2007 Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) (Nexis) 18 Feb. I can't afford to go out on strike.
h. Sport. Of a team, player, etc.: to take to the field of play.
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1878 E. O. Bray Ten of Them xvii. 148 Herbert's eleven won the toss; so the other side went out to field.
1882 N.Y. Times 25 Aug. 3/4 They commenced well, Phillipps playing with care, while Dale went out and hit with great freedom.
1911 Washington Post 23 May 8/2 With a lead of two runs, and only one inning left to play, the Nationals did not feel safe, so they went out and made a couple more in the ninth.
1980 Ebony Apr. 44/2 His trainer..gave Quarry instructions for the eighth round. The fighter went out and scored a knockout.
2013 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 21 July It is easy to..think too hard. You have to say ‘this is the batting order. Go out and make the runs’.
i. To have a romantic engagement or go on a date. Also: to have a romantic or sexual relationship. Also with together. Cf. to go with —— 1a at Phrasal verbs 2.
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c1907 C. W. Chandler Darkest Adelaide 59 They were always barracking me with being a frightened baby and not going out with boys like they did.
1918 Dial. Notes 5 28 To step (out), to go out with a jane.
1961 A. Vinton Doctor Di at Crossroads i. 10 I'm bad-tempered and broody and going out with brash blondes.
1989 Viz Dec. 31 I don't go out with chicks who have colds all the time.
1991 D. Purcell Place of Stones (1992) viii. 292 The habit had driven Una bonkers while they had been going out together.
2000 P. Beatty Tuff xii. 168 Come on now, we been going out for two years, married for one.
3. intransitive.
a. Of the tide or tidal water: to ebb, recede.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > types of tide [verb (intransitive)] > ebb
falleOE
ebbOE
wanec1290
reflow1429
to go out1595
to run out1608
refloat1632
1595 H. Chettle Piers Plainnes Prentiship sig. H4 He obtained the top of the crag, and the tyde going out continued there til morning.
a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) iii. 94 As the Tyde went out, the winde calm'd.
1665 G. Havers tr. P. della Valle Trav. E. India ii. 71 The Tide was still going out, and there was so little water left that our Frigat run a ground.
1708 tr. F. Le Guat New Voy. E.-Indies 70 When the Sea went out, abundance of Fish remain'd Dry.
1770 P. Pittman Present State European Settlem. Missisippi Pref. p. vii When the tide goes out it leaves an abundance of small fishes on the marshes.
a1839 T. H. Bayly Songs, Ballads & Other Poems (1844) II. 19 The perpetual din Of the tide going out, or the tide coming in.
1900 S. J. Weyman Story Francis Cludde (new ed.) v. 57 ‘Well, the tide is going out’, quoth the sailor, dubiously, looking steadily into the fog.
1958 L. G. Green S. Afr. Beachcomber 109 The first beachcombers were..baiting their fish-kraals wherever the rocks allowed them to trap the shoals as the tides went out.
2005 J. Robson Living Next Door to God of Love (2006) 419 The sea was going out.
b. North American. Of ice on a river, lake, etc.: to melt or float away, esp. as temperatures rise in the spring.
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1744 A. Dobbs Acct. Countries adjoining Hudson's Bay 17 13th got the Ship into the Stream, all the Ice gone out of the River.]
1842 Niles' National Reg. 9 Apr. 87/3 Ice went out 22d of February; boats commenced running on the 27th.
1885 Current (Chicago) 31 Oct. 285/1 People gathered on the bank to see the ice go out. It was a grand sight, as the huge cakes..went crashing down over the dam.
1952 Motor Boating May 92/2 He wanted a new craft..ready to be launched from his boathouse the day the ice went out.
2000 N. Jans Tracks of Unseen 107 Deep snow has driven most animals down to the vast willow thickets along the main river, where they'll form loose herds until the ice goes out.
II. Senses not primarily denoting physical movement.
†4. intransitive. With adverb complement. To turn out in a specified way. Obsolete.
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a1250 Lofsong Louerde in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 213 For to schewen hu þis hope to þin ones help schal gon me betere ut þen dude er þe oðres.
5. intransitive.
a. To be issued; to be published. Also of a report, rumour, etc.: to circulate, become widely known.
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xxiv. 50 Fro þe lord þe word is gon out [L. egressus est]: we mow not ouȝt out of þe plesyng of hym.
1439–40 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1439 §30. m. 9 A writte..may go oute..unto the schirref..commaundynge hym..to proclame in tho twey schires nexte suynge after the..resceit of the saide writte.
?1510 T. More tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. b.ivv He lytle forced whithir his workis went owt vndre his owne name or not.
1614 C. Brooke Ghost Richard III sig. F1v Report went out; and whispring Rumor drew From eu'ry quarter.
a1628 J. Preston Treat. Effectuall Faith vi. 175 in Breast-plate of Faith (1630) The Decree was gone out, there was nothing in the World, for ought hee saw, that could hinder it.
1702 F. Atterbury 3rd Let. to Clergyman in Country 16/1 The Writ went out purely for the sake of the Clause, not the Clause for the sake of the Writ.
1772 Scots Mag. Dec. 663/2 Sir George Colebroke..informed the Committee, That orders went out last March or April twelvemonth.
1851 A. Prentice Hist. Sketches & Personal Recoll. Manch. 9 A rumour went out that there would be a riot that evening.
1892 Law Times Rep. 67 143/1 They allowed this prospectus to go out with statements in it which were false.
1913 Electr. Rev. 11 Oct. 705/2 At the close of each conference, report goes out that the meeting was one of the most successful ever held by the organization.
1962 H. M. Wright tr. J. Gernet Daily Life in China (1970) iv. 171 About 1080 an imperial decree went out asking the most capable doctors..to give information about their most effective remedies.
1975 Rotarian June 20/2 The call went out for help.
2003 A. Stott Hannah More: First Victorian xiii. 286 The religious works of More's later years..went out under her own name.
b. To be broadcast on radio or television. In early use: spec. to be sent as a telegraphic message (now disused).
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society > communication > broadcasting > [verb (intransitive)] > be broadcast
to go out1917
air1974
1917 Radio Communication: Hearings before Comm. Merchant Marine & Fisheries (U.S. House of Representatives, 64th Congr., 2nd Sess.) 351 The only way to do it is to hold the owners of the stations strictly responsible for everything that goes out.
1922 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 17071/1 The report of his visit went out by wireless to Suva in Fiji.
1949 Agric. Estimating & Reporting Services (U.S. State Dept. Agric.) 173/2 The first radio market news broadcast by voice went out on February 19, 1921, over the radio station of the University of Minnesota.
1968 Listener 26 Sept. 420/1 Yorkshire's Gazette, a drama series about the lives and hard times on a weekly paper, goes out in London at 11 p.m.
1971 R. Busby Deadlock xiv. 210 ‘Cut—for Christ's sake, cut. This is all bloody going out.’.. The screens went blank.
2012 N. Robinson Live from Downing St. vii. 259 The whole exchange was going out live on the TV news channels.
6. intransitive.
a. Of a fire, flame, etc.: to be extinguished. Also in extended use and in figurative contexts. [Compare Middle Dutch utegaen to be extinguished (Dutch uitgaan ), specific use of utegaen outgo v.]
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the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > become dark [verb (intransitive)] > go out or be extinguished
quench?c1225
aquencha1250
to go out?a1425
quenta1500
to black out1934
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 31 His laumpe gase oute.
c1450 (?a1400) Sege Melayne (1880) l. 449 (MED) All if þe crosse were makede of tree, The fire ȝode owtt þat come þer nee.
1566 W. Adlington tr. Apuleius .XI. Bks. Golden Asse ii. xi. f. 23v When I came into the firste streate my torche went out, that with great paine I coulde skarse gette home, by reason it was so darke.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. i. 250 Thinks thou the fierie Feuer will goe out With Titles blowne from Adulation? View more context for this quotation
1683 Apol. Protestants France v. 59 The Sun goes not out when it is Eclipsed.
1743 A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) iv. 640 Thus at her felt approach, and secret might, Art after Art goes out, and all is Night.
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I clxxxiv. 95 Out went the light.
1889 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Dec. 259 My cigar went out.
1967 S. Mackay Old Crow xii. 57 The dry wick sputtered, smoke swirled round the glass globe and the lamp went out.
1998 M. Waites Little Triggers (1999) x. 80 ‘What you doin' tonight?’ Larkin gave a sad smile. ‘I'm busy.’ A light went out in Jane's eyes. ‘Right. Sorry.’
b. Of an electric light, power supply, service, etc.: to stop working; to be switched off.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of things, actions, or processes
restOE
leathc1275
stintc1275
slakea1300
ceasec1374
slocka1400
batec1400
lissec1400
stanchc1420
surcease1439
remain1480
stopa1529
break1530
decease1538
falla1555
to shut up1609
subside1654
drop1697
low1790
to go out1850
1850 ‘Young Gent.’ Squints through Opera Glass v. 10 The gas went out as it's very apt to do in New-York.
1890 Electr. World 7 June 386/2 Their switch-board caught fire, machine began ‘flashing’, and lights went out.
1918 D. Haig Diary 31 May in War Diaries & Lett. 1914–18 (2005) 417 An air raid started and the lights went out.
1942 Baltimore Sun 29 Dec. 13/2 The telephone service had gone out temporarily.
1998 Data Communic. Internat. Feb. 108/2 The service is line-powered and works even when the electricity goes out.
2013 Huffington Post (Nexis) 7 Dec. Buses don't arrive on schedule, train doors get stuck, and wifi goes out for a week.
7. intransitive. Of a year or other period of time: to pass, elapse, come to an end.See also March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb at March n.2 c.
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the world > time > period > year > [verb (intransitive)] > of a year (to end)
to go out?1529
?1529 S. Fish Supplicacyon for Beggers sig. A5 If eny man yn your sessions dare be so hardy to endyte a prest of eny suche cryme he hath or the yere go out suche a yoke of heresye leyd in his necke that it maketh him wisshe that he had not done it.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) xcvii. sig. C.iv/2 Or thys yere go out he shal be crowned kynge of a puissant realme.
1611 R. Fenton Treat. Vsurie ii. xv. 104 Doe what they will, the moneths goe out, and the money comes in.
1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding iv. vi, in Comedies & Trag. 133 You'l break your Covenant ere the year go out.
1722 Bibliotheca Biblica II. 276 The Old Year goes out, and a New Year comes in.
1804 A. Young Farmer's Cal. 417 Before this month goes out the lambs of the flock, should be weaned.
1896 Daily News 7 Dec. 3/7 The year will go out upon a much better state of things all round in the manufacturing industries.
1914 Princeton Alumni Weekly 7 Jan. 286/1 Vol. II, No. 1 of the Come Back went to press as the old year went out.
1928 N. Shepherd Quarry Wood xviii. 293 The year went out in sunshine.
2012 Jrnl. Rec. (Oklahoma City) (Nexis) 6 Mar. I would only expect them [sc. sales] to get stronger as the year goes out.
8. intransitive †(a) With complement usually indicating the degree attained. To graduate. Chiefly Oxford University and Cambridge University. Obsolete. (b) To graduate with a B.A. in a specified subject, or in honours. Chiefly Cambridge University. Also in extended use. Now chiefly historical.
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society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > take degree [verb (transitive)]
to go out1602
1602 W. Watson tr. E. Pasquier Iesuites Catech. ii. iii. f. 77v Hee should goe out [Fr. passer] Maister or Doctor, vpon the onely credit & authoritie of his Generall.
1647 R. Fanshawe tr. B. Guarini Pastor Fido iv. ix. 157 Thy bow Th' hast pli'd so well about these words, that now Th' art gone out thy Arts-master.
1690 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Lat. 209 That I should so suddenly go out poet.
1691 G. Langbaine Acct. Eng. Dramatick Poets 237 Here he took his Batchelors and Masters Degrees, and in the Year 1627. he went out Batchelor of Divinity.
1705 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 7 Dec. (1885) I. 119 Who went out A.M. June 27, 1684, and B.D. Feb. 4, 1695.
1863 New Monthly Mag. 127 113 Educated at Göttingen, he went out in law.
1880 A. Trollope Duke's Children I. iii. 33 He had gone out in honours, having been a second class man.
1890 Guardian 18 June 1000/1 She went out in natural science, but her place in the class is not recorded.
1984 N. Annan Leslie Stephen (rev. ed.) i. 24 Sir James Stephen had taken the alternative course of going out in law.
9. intransitive. Of money or a sum of money, cheque, etc.: to be paid out or spent; to be debited or withdrawn from a bank account.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > spend or incur expense [verb (intransitive)] > be spent
goc1330
to go out1622
issuea1645
1622 J. Mabbe in tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 102 My moneys still going out, and none comming in.
1658 A. Jackson Annot. Eccles. x. 100 in Annot. Old Test. Doctrinall Bks. Their money still going out for the defraying of these their riotous expences.
1838 Dublin Rev. Apr. 504 Little money went out, either for what Tony ate or drank.
1896 G. B. Pratt in E. I. Rood Papers World's Congr. Ornithol. 77 My library began to increase. It was apparent that as the dollars went out for books my pocket-book flattened.
1909 Christian Nation 8 Dec. 15/1 In the first hour two thousand dollars went out over the counter, and still the people came.
1980 Boys' Life Feb. 66/2 Stuart hired many servants and gave lavish parties. His money went out faster than it came in.
2013 Wexford People (Nexis) 12 Nov. I used the ATM machine on Thursday and the money went out on Friday.
10. intransitive. With to. To be drawn or impelled by a strong feeling of affection or (now more commonly) sympathy. Also of love, sympathy, etc.: to be felt for or expressed to someone or something. Frequently (and earliest) in one's (also the) heart goes out to —— at heart n., int., and adv. Phrases 3d(b).
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the mind > emotion > compassion > feel pity for [verb (transitive)] > sympathize with
yfeeleOE
to feel for ——a1533
sympathize1607
to go out1628
1628 W. Struther Christian Observ. & Resol. xcv. 269 The more the heart goe out to outward thinges, it is drawen the more from it selfe, and from God.
1705 J. Webster Sacramental Serm. v. 44 My Heart went out to you long ago, I loved you with an Everlasting Love, when ye were nothing.
1881 Atlantic Monthly May 594/2 His own sympathy went out fully to cases of individual suffering.
1890 Rev. of Reviews Nov. 428/1 His whole soul goes out in sympathy to Edmund Burke.
1891 Pictorial World 19 Dec. 239/1 The love of a nation goes out to its great men.
1940 Boys' Life Dec. 27/1 Curiously enough my thoughts go out to America.
1959 C. A. Robinson Athens in Age of Pericles iv. 64 A skeptic and a realist, his sympathies went out to the downtrodden and oppressed.
2005 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 13 Feb. 19/3 My heart goes out to the beggars of this city.
11. intransitive.
a. To die. Chiefly with complement indicating the manner of dying.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
1635 Bp. J. Hall Char. of Man 36 He that came into the world with cryes, goes out with groanes.
1657 J. Trapp Comm. Ezra (Job xviii. 6) 162 He and his prosperity shall dye together: he shall go out in a snuff, and leave nothing behind him but a detestable name.
1703 M. Prior Ode to Col. Villiers 38 The ancient sage, who did so long maintain, That bodies die, but souls return again, With all the births and deaths he had in store, Went out Pythagoras, and came no more.
1862 F. Rowan tr. Medit. Death & Eternity (1863) 13 What, then, is that which we call to die? To go out like a light.
1891 ‘S. C. Scrivener’ Our Fields & Cities 10 [Said of a dying man] He will go out with the tide, may be.
1993 R. Shilts Conduct Unbecoming vi. lxxi. 675 He hoped to aggrandize himself by dying a hero's death, going out in a blaze of glory.
b. colloquial (originally U.S.). To fall asleep; to faint, lose consciousness. Esp. in to go out like a light: to fall asleep instantly; to lose consciousness suddenly (cf. senses 6a, 6b).
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [verb (intransitive)] > go to sleep or fall asleep
to fall, lull, lay (bring obs.) asleepOE
to fall overa1752
to go off1813
to drop off1820
to fall off1822
to get off to sleep1837
to fall off1862
tope1863
sleepy-baw1907
to go out1928
to zizz off1962
1928 Washington Post 25 Oct. 11/3 She said..you better lie down a little and I did. And I went out like a light.
1934 J. M. Cain Postman always rings Twice ix. 76 A doctor was working on my arm. I went out again as soon as I saw it. It was running blood.
1934 R. Chandler in Black Mask Oct. 15/1 Something swished and I went out like a light.
1990 Christian Woman Apr. 23/2 You just swoon—you faint—you very softly go out, and you feel like you're just floating.
2005 J. Schinas Kids in Cockpit iii. 71/2 He goes out like a light as soon as his head touches the pillow.
12. intransitive.
a. Of a government: to come to an end; (of a government minister) to be dismissed from office; to retire from or leave office.
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society > authority > office > withdrawing from or vacating office > vacate office [verb (intransitive)]
resign1395
recede1452
retirec1598
to take, lay down, resign the fascesa1625
to go out1642
to sing one's nunc dimittis1642
to make one's bowa1656
to lay down1682
to swear off1698
vacate1812
to send in one's papers1872
to step down1890
to stand down1926
society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (intransitive)] > vacate an office or position > resign
resign1395
resignate1531
to go out1642
to lay down1682
to swear off1698
to turn up1819
to pull the pin1860
to send in one's papers1872
to step down1890
to snatch it or one's time1941
1642 E. Dering Coll. Speeches on Relig. 28 It would joy me much and satisfie me more, if as one government goes out, I could see another come in, and that without an Inter-regnum of Commissioners.
1689 in J. Sage Case Afflicted Clergy Scotl. (1690) 99 The King and Queens Majesties..do Ordain the saids Ministers that went out, or were laid aside,..to be restored and reponed; and do hereby repone and restore them to their respective Churches and Benefices.
1763 C. Churchill Ghost iv. 184 If, a matter of much doubt, The present Minister goes out, Fain would I know on what pretext I can stand fairly with the next?
1820 Examiner No. 664. 846/2 The burthen of all our speeches should be, Ministers must go out.
1881 R. C. Praed Policy & Passion I. ix. 186 It is an absolute certainty that the Government will go out.
1890 T. F. Tout in F. Y. Powell et al. Hist. Eng. III. 173 Stanley..went out for fear of the Appropriation Clause.
1916 D. Haig Diary 4 May in War Diaries & Lett. 1914–18 (2005) 185 If we attack and fail,..the French Government would certainly go out.
1930 Times 1 May 10/5 Mrs. Hamilton, M.P...prophesies that ‘more will be done’ before the Government goes out.
2007 Parramatta (Austral.) Advertiser (Nexis) 28 Nov. 1 It's sad to see the Prime Minister go out that way.
b. Cricket, Baseball, etc. Of a team: to be dismissed from batting. Also of a batter: to be dismissed.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > end one's innings
to go out1735
1735 London Evening Post 17 June London headed the county 42 Notches before they went out.
1854 J. Pycroft Cricket Field (ed. 2) xi. 247 Had not an easy catch been missed, the Eleven of All England would have gone out for a run apiece.
1888 A. G. Steel in A. G. Steel & R. H. Lyttelton Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) v. 232 Nothing would induce the injured batsman to remain..he had been given out and was going out.
1891 Strand Mag. 2 518/2 [In Tipcat] If either of the cats fall to the ground, both batters go out and the feeders get their turn.
1915 C. Mathewson Catcher Craig xiv. 186 Mr. Williams, first batter, was an easy victim to the infield, going out at first.
1991 L. Koppett New Thinking Fan's Guide to Baseball 62 Agee did bounce out, and the next two Mets went out, and the first batter to face Koosman in the second was Ron Santo, the Cub's captain.
2012 C. Finch Death in Small Hours xxviii. 221 When he finally went out, bowled, it was for a score of seventy-three.
c. To be knocked out of a competition, sports tournament, etc. Also: to be eliminated from a competition by losing to a specified team, player, etc.
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1870 Sporting Gaz. 2 Apr. 243/3 Pole jump... Hamilton went out at the first round.
1927 Times 20 Aug. 5/6 The holders, Preston (Brighton), after an easy win in the preliminary, went out in the first round to Cheltenham.
1974 Black Belt Dec. 68/2 During the semi-finals there were only two players left in contention... Three other players had all gone out in the same round, each with five points.
1986 Tennis World July 10/1 John and Stuart Tucker..went out to John and Anthony Middleton..7-5, 1-6, 6-1.
2014 Independent (Nexis) 22 July 56 Steven Gerrard said he ‘agonised’ over whether to hang up his international boots after the disappointment of the World Cup in Brazil, where England went out after the first round.
d. Games. To win or bring to an end a game by obtaining a certain score, using up all of one's tiles, playing out all of one's cards, etc. Cf. to make out 7 at make v.1 Phrasal verbs 1.
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1875 Westm. Papers 1 May 17 As one side or other must make the odd trick, and the chances are even, in sixteen games A B will go out in one hand.
1924 M. C. Work Mah-Jongg Up-to-Date i. 32 The Chinese word ‘Woo’ (meaning peace) has been extensively used by many American writers in the same sense as it is used by Chinese players; viz., to Mah-Jongg, to win the game, to go out.
1951 Esquire Jan. 69/2 A player wins 25 points for his side for going out (melding or discarding his last card).
1986 Darts World Sept. 60/5 The maestro went out in 14 darts.
2011 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 16 Dec. 5 I went out with ‘inbreds’ for 76, getting double ‘o’ on his rack, to make my score 500 to his 498.
13. intransitive. To become obsolete or outmoded; = to go out of fashion at fashion n. 11.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [verb (intransitive)] > become old-fashioned
musty1631
to go out1772
fossilize1845
stale1893
date1924
1772 G. A. Stevens Songs Comic & Satyrical lii. 98 Old fashions come in, and new fashions go out, As Vanity dresses the Play.
1797 M. Robinson Walsingham IV. lxxvi. 96 ‘Fashions change every day, my Lord,’ said he, pausing:—‘Phaetons are going out.’
1841 Punch 1 113/1 To use the flippant idiom of the day, they [sc. pockets] are going out!
1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xxv. 217 The practice of the duel in England had utterly gone out.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 22 Apr. 1/2 Very little yellow is worn—it seems to have quite gone out.
1940 W. Eisner Spirit 22 Sept. in Spirit Arch. (2000) I. 136/1 Mobs went out with silent movies. Crime today is run like a government.
1977 Black Belt Mar. 48/1 Self-indulgent, love-and-peace attitudes went out with the 60s.
2008 E. Stalder Fashion 101 69/1 The original style went out, but less flamboyant versions of zippered pants have reemerged since.
14. intransitive.
a. Of a part of the body, esp. the back or knee: to go out of joint; to become dislocated or otherwise damaged or unstable.
ΚΠ
1886 H. Marsh Dis. Joints xvi. 196 If he caught his toe in the carpet, or otherwise entangled it, the knee ‘went out’.
1954 Princeton Alumni Weekly 29 Oct. 14/1 His shoulder went out on the play and it was obvious from his inability to straighten up when he left the field that he could not return.
1994 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) 30 Jan. ii. 5/4 There was the time his back went out while lifting a heavy beam, putting his work on hold for a few weeks.
2003 R. Yancey Burning in Homeland v. 263 Ned had stepped out to visit an ailing parishioner (Mrs. Beverly Wilt, whose hip has gone out again).
b. Of a mechanical device, part, etc.: to fail or break.
ΚΠ
1902 Railway Accidents 66/1 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 1232) LXXXIX. 383 It [sc. the train] was brought to a stand by the vacuum brake going out, the pipe having been damaged.
1917 13th Ann. Convent. Assoc. Superintendents of Poor 42 The boiler has gone out and have got to get another right away.
1959 N.Y. Times 24 Aug. 23/6 The clutch went out on a 1904 Franklin.
1977 Pop. Mech. May 243/2 The power steering went out soon after I got the car.
2013 Evening Standard (Nexis) 4 Oct. 9 Maybe this is a freak accident. Maybe her brakes went out.
 to go over
1. intransitive.
a. To move or travel so as to pass across or above something; to cross to the other side of a stretch of water, a hill, etc.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > travel across or beyond
to come overeOE
overfareOE
overstridea1200
overgoc1225
to go over1415
cross1486
forpass1486
to make over1488
to put over1590
to make through1606
traject1711
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (intransitive)]
to come overeOE
passc1300
to pass byc1390
overwend?a1400
to go over1415
to pass througha1425
overdrawa1450
to make over1488
to get overa1500
transita1500
transire1592
to make through1606
transpass1626
to get through1694
1415 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 401 As men goth over into ye churche at ye south syde.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 13 Ther bysyde was an hie montayne..and there muste brune in the myddel goon ouer for to goo to maleperduys.
1549 H. Hart Consultorie for All Christians sig. D.i He shall smyte his seuen streames, & make men go ouer dry shod.
1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iii. f. 21 The Sea in some places hath been dronke vp, so that men myght haue gone ouer on foote.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 137 I am in blood Stept in so farre, that should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go ore. View more context for this quotation
1648 in S. R. Gardiner Hamilton Papers (1880) 202 He will goe over wheather and when you aduisse.
1737 J. Swift Let. 23 July in Wks. (1784) XVIII. 127 It will be time enough when his Lordship goes over [i.e. crosses from Ireland to England].
1762 Crit. Rev. Nov. 348 To leap flying; that is, to go over without a small stop.
1859 E. Bennett Wild Scenes on Frontier 18 Thar's Injuns 'tother side the river..; 'spose you jest go over, Cap, and take what you want.
1891 Atlantic Reporter 21 63/1 I thought then..that there would be an accident as he was going over.
1986 P. Hodson Under Sickle Moon x. 156 There were about twenty of us in the gorge when another helicopter went over.
2000 J. O'Connor Inishowen (2001) 371 The ball went over, the ball came back.
b. To travel overseas or across a border. Also more generally: to travel from one point to another (esp. in order to pay a visit). Frequently with to.
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1430 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1835) IV. 35 Þe Cardinal granted to goo overe in France with þe Kyng and to abide þere.
1488 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 655 My lord Woddevyle and other schulde haue gone ouer in-to Breten to haue eyded the Duke of Breten.
1575 U. Fulwell Flower of Fame f. 34v Hee was determined to goe ouer vnto Parys.
a1592 P. Adamson Recantation (1598) sig. B3v Health sufferis me noth to goe over to the College quhair ye are presentlie assembled.
1661 W. Howell Inst. Gen. Hist. iii. ix. 706 Spartacus having by this time passed to the Sea, thought of going over into Sicily.
1665 O. Stockton Diary 6 Sept. in J. Fairfax Πρεσβύτερος Διπλῆς Τιμῆς Ἄξιος (1681) 103 The next day my Wife and I went over to see our Child.
1724 J. Morgan tr. L. E. Du Pin & J. de Vayrac Hist. Revol. Spain II. (contents) He goes over to Africa to appease the Disturbances there.
1750 E. Kimber Life Joe Thompson II. 3 Once a Week I generally went over to see Mr. and Mrs. Diaper.
1807 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 9 50 I made my way out of the house, and went over to Mr. Sheridan's house.
1825 Glasgow Mechanics' Mag. Feb. 454/2 He even went over to America with that gentleman.
1909 Circle May 264/2 ‘Come boy’—going over and patting him on the back—‘brace up now’.
1928 Princeton Alumni Weekly 2 Nov. 197/1 He is now back in Del Rio looking forward to the arrival of Craven '23 and Sharp '27 to go over into Mexico on a bear hunt.
2001 G. Simmons Kiss & Make Up (2002) 123 In 1976 KISS went over to Europe for a major tour.
c. In the First World War (1914–18): to go over the parapet of a trench and into battle; = to go over the top at over the top adv. 1. Now historical.
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1917 A. G. Empey Over Top 314 Tommy would sooner go over with the ‘Tenth Wave’.
1919 R. J. Renison Story Five Cities in J. C. Hopkins Canada at War 1914–18 iii. 402 Bill, zero hour is at eight o'clock. You're rather slow, so you had better go over at seven and we will catch up with you.
1931 W. V. Tilsley Other Ranks 49 His only comment on ‘going over’ had been: ‘Well, Dick, Brettle's going to have his chance.’
2012 J. C. Nelson Five Lieutenants 182 The Germans went over at daybreak.
d. Of a broadcaster: to transfer to a different location, presenter, etc., during a radio or television programme (esp. a live one).
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1973 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 121 719/1 No one is impressed any more by the fact that at a flick of the switch we can now go over live to our man in Wagga Wagga.
1982 Spectator 8 May 30/3 We went over live to the Ministry of Defence for another announcement from their funereal spokesman.
2010 Evening Chron. (Nexis) 8 Sept. a62 An Australian announcer, speaking in a grave tone, said they were going over to our reporter in the UK for news of a shock resignation.
2. intransitive.
a. To change one's party or allegiance; to transfer from one side to another.
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [verb (intransitive)] > desert one's party
to go over1648
rat1810
bolt1821
to jump Jim Crow1833
Tylerize1865
?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth xxv. f. xxxivv A fewe rude and commen soudyours betrayed ye romayns & went ouer to Iugurth [L. transiere ad regem].
1648 Certaine Considerations touching Factions in Kings Dominions 2 Many of them have turned Renegado's, and gone over to the Independents.
1687 Bp. G. Burnet Contin. Refl. Mr. Varillas's Hist. Heresies 123 Some went over to the Queen with flying Colours.
1754 D. Hume Hist. Great Brit. I. 250 Those great supports of public authority, law and religion..had, in a great measure, gone over to the side of faction.
1823 New Monthly Mag. 9 341/1 Morillo..has gone over to the French with a part of his force.
1861 W. M. Thackeray Lovel the Widower ii. 61 Pye of Maudlin, just before he ‘went over’, was perpetually in Mrs. Prior's back parlour with little books, pictures [etc.].
1892 Standard 26 Apr. 4/7 When a large section, headed by the old Leader, had gone over, it was hopeless to prolong the struggle.
1921 W. C. Scully Harrow 197 Were the fires of our tribulation to be kindled again tomorrow, these men would without hesitation go over to the side of our oppressors.
1998 R. Collins Sociol. of Philos. (2000) 602 Lord Chesterfield, originally a Whig, broke with Walpole in 1730 and went over to the opposition.
b. To change one's religion. Originally and chiefly in to go over to Rome: to become Roman Catholic.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > conversion to Catholicism > convert to Catholicism [verb (intransitive)]
catholicize1611
Romanize1637
to go over1658
papalize1835
vert1888
popec1916
1658 J. Taylor Let. 11 Jan. in Xρισις Τελειωτιχη (1673) 68 You must make an apparent departure from the Church in which you received your Baptism and the Spirit of God, if you go over to Rome.
1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 516 In the Change of Religion Men don't so much consider the Principles, as the Practice of those to whom they go over.
1753 J. White Protestant Englishman ii. vi. 113 It would be..a foolish and irrational Change, if you, or any Protestant, should..renounce his Religion, and go over to the Church of Rome.
1841 R. Walker Miraculous Escape Don Fernandez de Alcantara 34 Go over to Rome if you are so disposed; but beware of endeavouring to undermine the fair fabric of the Church of England.
1878 M. E. Braddon Open Verdict I. vi. 103 After this, I shouldn't be at all surprised at his going over to Rome.
1918 R. Beazley et al. Russia ii. iv. 207 The majority of the bishops went over to Rome, while the towns, the mass of the peasants and a considerable number of priests, remained true to the Orthodox faith.
1994 Fortean Times June 56/2 He left the Church of England in December and has decided to go over to Rome.
3. intransitive. Esp. of inherited property: to pass, be transferred to another owner.
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society > law > transfer of property > be transferred [verb (intransitive)]
goOE
pass1416
devolvea1575
settle1629
to go overa1645
cede1756
shift1844
a1645 J. Philipot Villare Cantianum (1659) 282 A Mannor which..was, in the Surrender of this Abby into the Hands of Henry eighth,..found to be involved in the Demeasne of that Covent, from whom it went over to the Crown.
1767 J. T. Atkyns Rep. Cases Chancery 2 417 Harry Burr, one of the sons, died after the father, and before twenty-one, and consequently his share went over to the survivors.
1777 J. Nicolson & R. Burn Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland I. 386 He died..without issue male; whereupon his estate went over to the next heir male of the family.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) II. 19 The estate must go over to the next in remainder.
1899 Virginia Law Reg. 4 808 The estate then, under the supposed statutory language of the devise, is only to go over to B in the event that A dies without issue.
1922 Orders & Opinions of Mich. Public Utilities Comm. 668 The property went over to new ownership.
1993 T. R. Ashley Bk. Numbers 659 When inheriting daughters married into another tribe, their inheritance went over to the tribe of their husband.
4. intransitive. Of a bill, motion, etc., before a legislative or deliberative body: to be postponed to another day or session; to be held over.
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a1733 Ld. Raymond Rep. Courts King's Bench & Common Pleas (1743) 2 1524 This coming on towards the close of Trin. term 1728. if the prosecutrix insisted upon the damages, it must go over till the next term.
1798 W. Woodfall et al. Impartial Rep. Deb. Parl. II. 217 I should propose taking the opinion of the House upon them on Thursday; and then that the whole subject should go over until after the holidays.
1876 S. S. Cook Why We Laugh x. 160 The question goes over, the House is relieved, and the present chance is gone for the orator.
1894 ‘M. Twain’ in Cent. Mag. Feb. 556 According to the by-laws it must go over to the next regular meeting for action.
1900 Congress. Rec. 3 Jan. 632/2 The resolution goes over under the rule.
1956 Billboard 21 July 22/5 The report and the committee's recommendations could go over from one to three weeks.
2003 W. S. Pray Hist. Nonprescription Product Regulation v. 85 Lane requested that the bill go over until the following day.
5. intransitive. Of a container, vehicle, etc.: to be overturned.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > fall [verb (intransitive)] > capsize or be upset
whelma1300
overturna1393
overset1641
coup1787
upset1799
capsize1805
to turn the turtle1818
to go over1829
keela1860
to turn turtle1860
wintle1867
turtle1920
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > [verb (intransitive)] > be overturned
to go over1829
1829 G. Jones Sketches Naval Life I. iv. 24 A lurch tripped up our barrel... The hogshead too went over.
1836 Blackwood's Lady's Mag. & Gaz. Oct. 197/1 The ship went over on her broadside.
1865 C. Dickens Let. 13 June (1999) XI. 54 I was in the only carriage that did not go over into the stream.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 127 It took all..Ned could do..to keep from going over in some of the waggon tracks.
1914 R. Parrish Shea of Irish Brigade vii. 78 I struck, and he went over on to the floor.
1958 Life 29 Sept. 33/1 The engines and three of five coaches went over.
2010 A. Klavan Long Way Home x. 69 I hit the brakes, trying to cut my speed before the bike went over.
6. intransitive. U.S. Bridge. To declare a double; = double v. 1g. Now disused.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > play bridge [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics
echo1885
peter1887
declare1895
false-card1902
finesse1902
to go over1902
to go down1905
switch1906
pass1908
exit1930
break1952
shoot1957
1902 J. B. Elwell Bridge 111 Going over...The effect of ‘over’, ‘over’, etc., is that the value of each trick point is doubled, quadrupled, etc.
1907 R. F. Foster Bridge 60 If you are reasonably certain of the odd trick, you should go over in order to make it more valuable.
1920 R. F. Foster Auction made Easy 111 Going over, obsolete for doubling.
7. intransitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). Of a play, speech, etc.: to be (more or less) successful in its appeal to the audience; to meet with a specified degree of success. Also more generally: to be received (in a specified way). Cf. to go (over) big at big adv. 2b.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)]
speedc1175
fayc1300
provec1300
flourishc1400
passc1425
prosper1434
succeedc1450
to take placea1464
to come well to (our) pass1481
shift?1533
hitc1540
walka1556
fadge1573
thrive1587
work1599
to come (good) speedc1600
to go off1608
sort1613
go1699
answer1721
to get along1768
to turn up trumps1785
to come off1854
pan1865
scour1871
arrive1889
to work out1899
to ring the bell1900
to go over1907
click1916
happen1949
1907 Billboard 25 Feb. 96/3 Want a concession that is almost certain to go over—with many ‘carnival objectionists’?
1927 Daily Express 29 Aug. 5 ‘Little Bits of Love’ went over with its accustomed success.
1973 ‘M. Campbell’ Halfbreed iii. 24 Many of our men brought home Scottish and English wives, which of course didn't go over very well with our people.
1984 S. Parker Catchpenny Twist i. 24 Nobody cares who writes the numbers so long as they go over well.
2007 C. J. Masters H. Horner, Chicago Politics, & Great Depression 84 It is unclear how such a promise went over in front of this audience.
 to go round
1. intransitive.
a. To be passed from person to person (in early use esp. among a group of people sat at a table); to circulate; to be or become widely current. Cf. to go around 1a at Phrasal verbs 1.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (intransitive)]
wharvec888
turnOE
runOE
to turn aboutOE
to turn roundc1450
to go roundc1460
revolute1553
gyre1598
veer1605
to come about1607
circumvolve1626
circumgyre1634
to turn around1642
roll1646
revolve1660
circulate1672
twist1680
circumgyrate1683
rotate1757
gyrate1830
society > leisure > social event > [verb (intransitive)] > participate in social events > circulate at
to go roundc1460
circulate1928
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn Prol. l. 280 For spycys & eke wyne Went round aboute, þe gascoyn, & eke the ruyne.
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 54 Than culit thai ther mouthis with confortable drinkis, And carpit full cummerlik, with cop going round.
1546 S. Gardiner Detection Deuils Sophistrie f. lixv The speche goeth round as though ye wordes imported, that ye sacrament is but a remembraunce of Christe.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. iv. 100 A health Gentlemen, Let it goe round . View more context for this quotation
1650 L. Lawrence Epithalamium 6 The bridegroom's health goes round.
1743 Foundling Hosp. for Wit No. 2. 49 Here with his Friends the social Glass went round.
1779 W. Cowper Yearly Distress xii The punch goes round, and they are dull And lumpish still as ever.
1801 L. Aikin Poetry for Children 1 Jokes went round and careless chat.
1877 A. M. Sullivan New Ireland II. viii. 205 Towards the close of December rumours went round that the work of the approaching commission was to be swelled.
1890 Cornhill Mag. July 11 The frequent laugh goes round.
1913 O. Roe & H. Urse By Brown Bog 48 There's a peculiar story going round of an adventure of his with priests and poteen.
1967 Times 25 Jan. 10/5 A long way from the drug pushers and the coffee bars where drugs go round.
2004 H. Walsh Brass ii. 41 If you'd all like to refer to the handouts that are going round.
b. Of food, or anything distributed or shared out: to supply each person in a group, or to satisfy demand. Chiefly in the infinitive following an expression of quantity, as enough, much, etc. Cf. to go around 1b at Phrasal verbs 1.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > be sufficient [verb (intransitive)] > to be distributed
to go around1841
to go round1855
1855 P. T. Barnum Life x. 294 When it [sc. a small turkey] was carved, there was not enough of it to ‘go round’.
1891 Sat. Rev. 18 July 84/1 The haunch of venison was in such demand that Jacob Tonson learnt with horror that it would never ‘go round’.
1943 C. McCullers in Harper's Bazaar Aug. 153/2 There had been barely enough hoecakes and white meat to go round.
1991 Face Feb. 90/1 There's only so much money to go round, they say.
2013 R. G. Anderson in E. Reid & D. Visser Private Law & Human Rights 382 Where there are insufficient resources to go round, decisions have to be made about allocation that are bound to be controversial.
†c. Cards. Of a leading card or suit in a round: to be followed by all players, without a card of another suit being played. Obsolete.
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1879 ‘Cavendish’ Card Ess. 230 Its policy lies chiefly in the hope that spades may go round three times.
1884 H. G. Playfair Game of Napoleon & How to play It xviii. 55 Should best Trump go round lead Trumps again.
2. intransitive.
a. To move in a circular or orbital course; to revolve, rotate. Also in figurative contexts. Cf. to go around 3 at Phrasal verbs 1.See also to go round in circles at circle n. 1c, to make the world go round at world n. Phrases 28, to see (what makes) the wheels go round at wheel n. 14c.
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?1561 T. Blundeville Newe Bk. Arte of Ryding i. iv. sig. B.i You shall not remoue forwarde your right fote from the place where you are. But onely goe rounde with youre lefte foote.
1569 R. Androse in tr. ‘Alessio’ 4th Bk. Secretes iii. 8 Scotomia and Vertigo, are diseases of the head which make all things seeme to go rounde.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 232. Does the world go round?
1631 T. Foster Plouto-mastix 14 Charity..must goe round in a continuall circle of Beneficent operation.
1742 R. Long Astron. I. ii. v. 201 To the inhabitant of any planet the sun appears to go round in the heliocentric circle of that planet.
1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 41 Smack went the whip, round went the wheels.
1833 J. Hall Soldier's Bride 127 Their spirits may still be seen..dancing in circles in yonder whirling place, where the water goes round so rapidly.
1855 E. Smedley et al. Occult Sci. 334 Gyromancy was performed by going round continually in a circle.
1931 Boys' Life Jan. 41/3 The stars above him went round and round in a ring.
1959 Punch 20 May 688/3 It is a big stage... In the middle is a revolve that goes round as easily as a bicycle wheel.
2000 B. Segal Whisper Awhile 37 As I drank my warm beer, the scratchy record would go round and round.
b. Of the head or brain: to be dizzy or dazed; to spin, swim.
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1659 A. Burgess Script. Directory 269 His head goeth round, and he knoweth not where he is.
1692 J. Dryden Cleomenes v. 55 My Head goes round: And now you swim before me.
1742 Scots Mag. Aug. 361/2 Did it not make your brain go round?
1777 tr. G. Bertati Isola di Alcina i. ix. 34 I feel, I know not what—my head goes round—ah me—what a storm!
1803 F. Reynolds Delays & Blunders iii. 44 My head goes round and round—I write this between my fits.
1896 Pearson's Mag. 1 690/2 ‘Hold me!’ she gasped, ‘my head is going round and round’.
1934 F. L. Lucas tr. M. Mauron Mount Peacock v. 64 There are in the magistrate's style too many ‘in consideration whereofs’, ‘eventual collaterals’, ‘prescriptive intervals’, ‘proportions legally reserved’—quite enough to make Bernade's head go round.
1987 S. O'Dell Secret never Sleeps iii. 24 I scarcely heard her question. My head was going round.
2005 Bath Chron. (Nexis) 27 Apr. 43 Next thing I'm in a hospital bed with my head going round and round.
3. intransitive. Of time or a period of time: to pass, elapse (sometimes with reference to the cyclical nature of time, the seasons, etc.). Now chiefly poetic and literary.
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1608 B. Jonson Masque of Blacknesse in Characters Two Royall Masques sig. Cv So that, this night, the years gone round, you do again salute this ground.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. ii. 156 So long, that ninteene Zodiacks haue gone round . View more context for this quotation
1683 C. Wase tr. Cicero Five Days Deb. Tusculum ii. x. 110 Many Ages Periods have gone round.
a1718 T. Parnell Poems Several Occasions (1721) 138 The Months go round.
1794 A. Pringle Gen. View Agric. Westmoreland 20 The crop is reaped before a year goes round.
1842 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Neighbours II. xii. 82 Days—months—years went round.
1862 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 30 Jan. 541 Some four weeks went round, during which my patient was limping about the camp.
1980 J. Wain Poems 1949–79 55 In every year that has gone round Since the first man walked on the ground Things were that should never have been.
1990 D. Davie Coll. Poems (new ed.) 387 The year goes round.
4. intransitive. To encircle, enclose, or surround something (frequently with the implication of being sufficient).
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > surround or lie around [verb (transitive)]
befong971
beclipc1000
begoc1000
belieOE
bestandc1000
to go about ——OE
umbegangc1200
behema1250
befallc1275
berunc1275
girdc1290
bihalvena1300
umlapa1300
umlaya1300
umlouka1300
umbegoc1300
belayc1320
halsea1340
enclose1340
umbelapa1350
embracec1360
betrendc1374
circlec1374
umbecasta1375
to give about1382
environa1393
umbeclipa1395
compassa1400
encircle?a1400
enourle?a1400
umbegivea1400
umbeseta1400
umbeliec1400
umbetighc1400
enroundc1420
measurec1425
umbsteadc1450
adviron?1473
purprise1481
umbeviron1489
belta1500
girtha1500
overgirda1500
engirt15..
envirea1513
round?a1513
brace1513
umbereach1513
becompass1520
circuea1533
girtc1540
umbsetc1540
circule1553
encompass1555
circulate?a1560
ingyre1568
to do about1571
engird1573
circumdate1578
succinge1578
employ1579
circuate1581
girdle1582
wheel1582
circumgyre1583
enring1589
ringa1592
embail1593
enfold1596
invier1596
stem1596
circumcingle1599
ingert1599
engirdle1602
circulize1603
circumscribe1605
begirt1608
to go round1610
enwheela1616
surround1616
shingle1621
encirculize1624
circumviron1632
beround1643
orba1644
circumference1646
becircle1648
incircuitc1650
circumcinge1657
circumtend1684
besiege1686
cincture1789
zone1795
cravat1814
encincture1820
circumvent1824
begirdle1837
perambulate1863
cordon1891
1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. xcvi. 385 Make a plaister thereof two fingers broad, and as long as will goe round on the toppe of the horses hoofe.
1671 Duchess of Newcastle Natures Picture (ed. 2) ii. 427 The Wall did not only look sparkling, but like a flaming Hoop, or Ring of Fire, by reason the Wall went round.
1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd II. vi. 122 The Number of Inches that will go round at the usual Place where we fix the Girth.
1766 R. Jones Artific. Fire-works (ed. 2) vi. 254 Tie round the mouth of each a piece of thin paper, large enough to go twice round.
1845 J. Smith Syst. to organize & establish Mil. Discipline 172 There should be eight posts well secured, and a strong rope, of sufficient length to go round.
1864 Ladies' Compan. 26 107/2 Cover this diamond with five or six stitches which go round twice.
1904 Pacific Unitarian Jan. 89/1 He..was awful fat where his belt went round.
1912 Amer. Primary Teacher Jan. 184/1 The pieces of raphia cut the right length to go round once.
2008 tr. M. Dahlén Creativity Unlimited xiii. 167 The rope is just long enough to go round if it runs along the ground.
5. intransitive.
a. To go from one place to another, esp. in an indirect, circuitous, or roundabout way. In later use also: to pay a visit in an informal or incidental way. Cf. to go around 2a at Phrasal verbs 1.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)]
scritheOE
walka1200
fizgig1594
itinerate1600
to go round1636
to travel it1687
to go around1742
flitch1787
society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (intransitive)] > visit informally
to call in1573
to drop in1609
to look ina1616
to come round1620
to go round1636
to put in1668
to go around1742
to happen in1749
to run in and out1779
to come around1822
to pop in and out1846
to happen in with1883
to stop in1904
stop1905
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > change course or turn off > diverge from direct course > make a detour > go or come by circuitous route
to come round1620
to go round1636
to go around1742
1636 R. Chamberlain Last Two Cent. Bulls, Jests & Lies 50 in Bk. of Bulls The Pox..had an ambition to take the circumference of his face, and beginning at one eare, went round by his chin till it reached the other.
1664 S. Pepys Diary 5 Nov. (1971) V. 314 The coach being forced to go round by London-wall home because of the Bonefires.
1769 T. Gray Diary 13 Oct. in Poems (1775) II. 131 Gordale-scar..lay six miles from Settle; but that was directly over a fell, and as the weather was not to be depended on, I went round in a chaise.
1796 F. Burney Camilla III. v. iii. 38 She..went round by a back way to the apartment of Eugenia.
1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xvi. 264 Her husband was going round for an hour to a ball that Mrs. Kavanagh was giving.
1880 A. Trollope Duke's Children I. ix. 92 She would find him pausing at a fence. Then she would hop over herself and he would go round.
1885 G. Allen Babylon I. viii. 169 He went round to see Cicolari.
1933 L. G. D. Acland in Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 28 Oct. 15/7 A dog goes round to the far side of a mob of sheep and stops them.
1971 ‘G. Charles’ Destiny Waltz iv. 131 I just went round there because I liked going round to other people's homes.
2002 R. Hill Death's Jest-bk. 657 He wanted to go round and see Frobisher and apologize.
b. To visit (in succession) a number of places or people; to go from place to place. Cf. to go around 2b at Phrasal verbs 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > travel about or visit many places > tour
to go round1670
tour1789
tourify1820
tourize1837
1670 N. Ranew Solitude improved by Divine Medit. i. xi. 44 Meditation in Spiritual things, should be like Nehemiah when he came to Jerusalem, and would go view it; He went and viewed first one part, and then another, till he had gone round.
1675 A. Roberts tr. D. Vairasse d'Allais Hist. Sevarites I. ii. 8 Sermodas led me and Maurice by the hand to take a full view of this stately Palace. When we had gone round, and seen the glory of it,..we returned to our company.
1723 J. Anderson Constit. Free-masons 65 The Grand-Master..shall (at least once) go round and visit all the Lodges about Town.
1771 A. Bailey Mem. 14 Mr. Steward went round to all the tradesmen whom he had dealt with, to forbid them to trust me.
1849 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 16 80/2 They went round into the markets, and bought up all the corn.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. i. 16 I spent a day or two in..going round and seeing the other colleges.
1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers vi. 157 They went round for eggs, scrambling into all sorts of places.
1990 A. Sweeting Educ. in Hong Kong Pre-1841–1941 v. 466 They went round from door to door.
2001 P. Gregory Other Boleyn Girl (2003) 158 ‘What else is there to do in the country?’ ‘I go round and see the farms,’ I remarked.
c. Theatre. Of a member of an audience: to go backstage or behind the scenes at a theatre, esp. so as to visit an actor after a performance.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > theatre-going > go to theatre [verb (intransitive)] > visit backstage
to go round1882
1882 Harper's Mag. Feb. 388/2 I have sometimes gone round to speak to an actor.
1900 T. E. Pemberton Kendals xi. 326 After the piece was over, I went ‘round’ to offer her my congratulations.
1952 A. Christie Mrs. McGinty's Dead xvii. 128 The play itself she had enjoyed, but the ordeal of ‘going round afterwards’ was fraught with..terrors.
1987 R. Briers Coward & Company 24 Hannen Swaffer..went round after the show to tell him, ‘Noley, I've always said you could act better than you write’.
6. intransitive. Golf. Chiefly with in. To complete a game of golf in a specified way or with a specified score.
ΚΠ
1863 Dundee Courier & Argus 5 May The next highest was Mr Richardson, Edinburgh, who went round in 90 strokes.
1890 H. S. C. Everard in H. G. Hutchinson et al. Golf (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 353 He had until that day never succeeded in going round without a six somewhere in his score.
1909 Amer. Golfer July 110/2 Gilbert did not allow anything to interfere with his grand game and he went round in 76 and was 6 up in the morning.
2012 Irish Examiner (Nexis) 19 Mar. Pádraig Harrington went round in par yesterday.
7. intransitive. colloquial. To be regularly in company (with a person, esp. a lover); (also) to have regular social interaction with a group of people. Also (of two or more people) with together. Cf. to go around 2c at Phrasal verbs 1.rare in U.S. use.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate with [verb (transitive)]
seeOE
drawc1275
mella1300
meeta1325
fellow1340
usec1384
conjoinc1386
joinc1390
knitc1400
accompany1461
enfellowship1470
frequent1477
haunt1477
mixa1513
encompanya1533
combinea1535
contract1548
to take with ——1562
associate1581
to have a saying toa1593
cope1594
sort1594
to take in1597
consort1600
herd1606
factionate1611
to keep company (with)a1616
accost1633
solder1641
converse1649
walk1650
consociate1653
coalite1734
to get with ——a1772
forgather1786
unionize1810
to go rounda1867
to mix in1870
cop1940
the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > court or woo [verb (transitive)] > keep company with as a lover
to go with ——c1330
to go rounda1867
trot1888
to go around1904
track1916
a1867 C. F. Browne Artemus Ward in London (1870) i. v. 53 You're the serpent I..went round with, and was cheerful with, are you?
1921 J. Dos Passos Three Soldiers iv. 244 I guess you didn't go round with the intellectual set.
1934 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Grey Granite iv. 246 You might have been a keelie labourer—Christ, living in some awful room in Paldy,..going round with some quean not genteel like yours but speaking just awful.
1977 W. Ihimaera in L. Wevers N.Z. Short Stories (1984) 4th Ser. 149 Roha and Hone, they went round together.
1986 R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk iv. 143 Because I went round with black kids I was different.
2002 E. Wooff Mud Puppy xv. 145 There I was thinking of ways to make it up to her. And all the time, she's going round with poxy Gareth Matthews.
 to go through
1. intransitive.
a. To complete or reach the end of an undertaking, process, etc.; to carry or follow something to completion or to its natural end; to do something thoroughly or completely.
†(a) Without construction. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > carrying out > execute, perform, or carry out [verb (intransitive)]
dightc1275
dispensec1374
performa1382
to go througha1460
voyagec1500
to do one's do1650
to put down1943
a1460 E. Clere in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 199 I seid his maister schuld leve his mayntenaunce, wherof I schuld haue right good suerte or ellys we schuld not go thorgh esyly.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 52/2 & since he had ones begon, he would stoutly go through.
1635 J. Shirley Traytor iv. sig. G3v You chang Your purpose, why did you not goe through And murder him?
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 515 They promised these witnesses a large share of the confiscated estates, if they went thro' in the business.
1716 J. Collier tr. Gregory of Nazianzus Panegyrick upon Maccabees 9 I have seen you all go nobly through, and come off with Conquest about you.
1821 J. Dagley Life 44 If I begin and can't go through, Then, alas! what must I do?
1865 E. Stoddard Two Men vii. 66 ‘I do not mean to go next term. I shall stay here.’ ‘Oh, Parke, you must go through.’
(b) With with.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > continuing > following up, through, or prosecution > follow up, through, or out [verb (transitive)] > to the end
to go through1548
to set on1596
to set through1600
to carry through1609
to see outc1700
to follow out1762
to see through1828
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xvii. f. cxli The which were..onely ministers and seruauntes, assured to be punished if they had lingred or slacked to goe through with executyng that was geuen theim in charge & commission to dooe.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 32 He seazed vpon his goods..whereby he became the stronger, and better able to go thorowe with this enterprise.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. vii. sig. S3 Finding him able euery way to goe thorow with that kinde of life.
1660 G. Newton Expos. John 17th sig. a3 Christ did not do his work by halves, but went through with it.
1680 W. Temple Ess. Cure of Gout in Miscellanea 231 The Gout is commonly the disease of aged men, who cannot go through with these strong Remedies.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. iii. 323 They were prepared for going through with this undertaking.
1787 W. Cowper Let. 27 Aug. (1982) III. 18 It is the only one [sc. romance] indeed of an old date that I ever had the patience to go through with.
1820 Examiner No. 629. 287/1 He would have gone through with it to the very bottom, or else have perished in the attempt.
1890 New Rev. Jan. 85 He is only going through with it as a duty.
1937 M. Allingham Case of Late Pig vii. 54 I've made up my mind to go through with it.
1977 R. Caron Go-Boy 45 I've got this weird feeling that something very, very bad is going to happen to me if I go through with this play.
2000 J. Goodwin Danny Boy vii. 170 Now that I was here I didn't know if I'd got the bottle to go through with it.
b. With with. To give a complete or thorough description or enumeration of something. Now rare.
ΚΠ
?1570 T. Drant Two Serm. i. sig. B.j I will trust Pagnine in this matter, & go through with his exposition in this sort.
1582 R. Robinson tr. V. Strigel Pt. Harmony King Dauids Harp xix. 217 It were too long to goe through with all partes of this comparyson, I doe therefore make speede to the exposition of the other Similitudes.
a1626 A. Lake Serm. (1629) ii. 236 I purpose now (God willing) to goe on, and goe through with the particulars which remaine vntoucht.
1698 W. Congreve Amendments Mr. Collier's False & Imperfect Citations 93 I have now gone thorough with all Mr. Collier's Quotations; I have been as short as I could possibly in their Vindication.
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture II. 73/2 I think I have now gone thro' with all the ornaments that relate to public Edifices.
1753 Parl. Hist. Eng. IX. 58 We have now gone through with the Journals of the House of Commons.
1841 S. S. Goodrich Sketches from Student's Window 60 I cannot go through with the details of Mr. Duck's adventures.
1902 Railway Surgeon Aug. 72/1 Having the patient go through with the details of the accident.
2. intransitive. With to. Esp. of a train: to travel or pass through various places to a final destination, esp. in a single journey.
ΚΠ
1724 D. Defoe Tour Great Brit. I. 67 Easie Passage to London, either by Land or Water, the Coach going through to London in a Day.
1867 N.Y. Times 18 May 7/4 (advt.) Freight shipped by this line goes through to destination without breaking bulk.
1874 Punch 29 Aug. 91/1 This train goes through to Kester.
1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 18 Apr. (Mag. section) 7/4 The object of this [extra train]..is to allow those going through to Alberni to reach their destination the same day.
1991 ‘B. Vine’ King Solomon's Carpet ix. 113 The train went through to Latimer Road unhindered.
3. intransitive.
a. Of a bill, motion, etc.: to be passed or ratified by a legislative or deliberative body.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > carrying out > execute, perform, or carry out [verb (intransitive)] > be carried into effect
forthgoa1325
to go through1812
1812 Weekly Reg. (Baltimore) 21 Mar. 45/1 The bill having gone through, was reported to the house.
1895 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 14 Jan. 7/7 Confirmation of Secretary Francis considered, but does not go through.
1905 Pacific Monthly July 101 He called for a vote, and it was a tie. Tellers were called for, and the motion went through.
1950 Times 22 June 3/7 He suggested there would be good ground for saying, if this measure went through, that it was a sloppy piece of legislation.
2006 West Austral. (Perth) (Nexis) 13 Sept. 14 Their votes will not be enough to prevent the Bill from going through.
b. Of a deal, transaction, etc.: to be completed; to be officially approved or processed.
ΚΠ
1887 Amer. Stationer 24 Mar. 482/1 Rumor gives it that an old firm in the fancy goods line will find a successor about May 1, provided the deal goes through.
1919 Printers' Ink 21 Aug. 10/1 You go back and see Mr. Skinner. If he lets your order go through then we will do the same thing here.
1963 J. Didion Run, River xxii. 237 The deal on which he had been working had not quite gone through.
1997 W. L. Fox Lodge of Double-Headed Eagle 247 The Spanish Ambassador reported that the money had gone through, but Cowles queried him about why the check had not cleared the local bank.
2011 M. Roffey With Kisses of his Mouth 36 The flat..had been sold, and while the deal was going through, it was fine for my ex to stay here.
c. Of wholesale commercial goods (esp. textiles): to be produced for (and accepted by) a particular market. Now rare.
ΚΠ
1901 Economist 31 Aug. 1326/1 A fair enquiry has been experienced for Egypt, and several small lines have gone through.
1924 Times Trade & Engin. Suppl. 29 Nov. 247/1 Some modest lots of miscellaneous cloths have gone through for the smaller markets of the Far East.
1933 Times 8 May 23/6 While a few fair lines are going through, the volume of business passing at the moment is far from being sufficient to meet the needs of all producers.
4. intransitive. Australian colloquial. Of a person: to desert, decamp; to abscond. Also: to desist, give up. Cf. to shoot through at shoot v. 2e.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > quit or give up
to give offa1616
quita1642
to tie up1760
that'll be the day1916
to turn in1918
to go through1933
to walk away1950
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily > secretly or abscond
to run awayOE
elope1596
to step aside1620
abscond1652
shirk1681
decamp1751
levant1797
absconce1823
skip1865
skin1871
to shoot the crow1887
sneak1896
to go through1933
to take a run-out powder1933
1933 Austral. Women's Weekly 19 Aug. 11/5 He dumped me every time—went through on me.
1943 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang (ed. 2) 35 Go through, to desert from a northern base to the south. War slang.
1944 J. Devanny By Tropic Sea & Jungle xi. 89 ‘Cutting cane's not living: it's death in life... You're going through,’ I told myself. ‘You're going through!’
1949 L. Glassop Lucky Palmer xvii. 155 'Suppose you think I know nothing about the day you took over the S.P. business..how you went through to Sydney just afterwards. Run away from home.
1968 W. N. Scott Some People 45 The first few times she went through on him nearly broke his heart.
† to go till
Obsolete.
intransitive. To go about one's work; = to go to 1a at Phrasal verbs 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)]
beginc1000
onginOE
aginOE
ginc1175
to go tillc1175
to take onc1175
comsea1225
fanga1225
to go toc1275
i-ginc1275
commencec1320
to get (also get down, go, go adown, set, set down) to workc1400
to lay to one's hand(sc1405
to put to one's hand (also hands)c1410
to set toc1425
standa1450
to make to1563
to fall to it1570
to start out1574
to fall to1577
to run upon ——1581
to break off1591
start1607
to set in1608
to set to one's hands1611
to put toa1616
to fall ona1625
in1633
to fall aboard1642
auspicatea1670
to set out1693
to enter (into) the fray1698
open1708
to start in1737
inchoate1767
to set off1774
go1780
start1785
to on with1843
to kick off1857
to start in on1859
to steam up1860
to push off1909
to cut loose1923
to get (also put) the show on the road1941
to get one's arse in gear1948
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 9199 Gaþ till. & ȝarrkeþþ godess weȝȝe.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 14038 & teȝȝ ȝedenn till & didenn þatt he seȝȝde.
 to go to [Compare Middle Dutch toegaen to set to work, (of a door, etc.) to close, (of the sun) to set (Dutch toegaan), Middle Low German togān to set to work, Middle High German zuo gān (of a door, etc.) to close, (of the sun) to set (German zugehen)]
1. intransitive.
a. To go about one's work; to set to work, begin working. Chiefly imperative, as an exhortation to do this. Cf. to go to —— at Phrasal verbs 2. Now archaic (somewhat rare).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)]
beginc1000
onginOE
aginOE
ginc1175
to go tillc1175
to take onc1175
comsea1225
fanga1225
to go toc1275
i-ginc1275
commencec1320
to get (also get down, go, go adown, set, set down) to workc1400
to lay to one's hand(sc1405
to put to one's hand (also hands)c1410
to set toc1425
standa1450
to make to1563
to fall to it1570
to start out1574
to fall to1577
to run upon ——1581
to break off1591
start1607
to set in1608
to set to one's hands1611
to put toa1616
to fall ona1625
in1633
to fall aboard1642
auspicatea1670
to set out1693
to enter (into) the fray1698
open1708
to start in1737
inchoate1767
to set off1774
go1780
start1785
to on with1843
to kick off1857
to start in on1859
to steam up1860
to push off1909
to cut loose1923
to get (also put) the show on the road1941
to get one's arse in gear1948
the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > expressions of disbelief [interjection]
to go toc1275
in good timea1470
Walker1811
to get off1818
this beats my grandmother1819
to go on1835
your granny!1837
to get away1847
I ask you1855
great guns!1875
sure1907
oh yeah1927
Aunt Fanny1928
go 'long1974
to sod off1976
c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 838 (MED) Þu gest al to mid swikelede.
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. ii. 115 Fauel..bad Gyle go to and ȝyue gold aboute, And namely to this notaries.
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iii. l. 668 In ver let sowe, in October go to And transplaunte hit.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. iii. 35 Here shall no man tary the; I pray the go to!
1573 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxxix. 112 Our Cronall als, quha is ane freik bot feir, With all his Capitanes reddie to ga to.
1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 9 Go to now bring me a doublet.
1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xi. 3 And they sayd one to another; Goe to, let vs make bricke. View more context for this quotation
1645 J. Ussher Body of Divin. (1647) 56 Go to then, shew first how many ways sinne is to be considered.
1770 R. Griffith Posthumous Wks. Celebrated Genius I. xv. 62 Go to—go to—ye idle vagabonds of the world—Build houses—Rear trees—Write books.
1838 E. Fanning Voy. South Seas, Indian & Pacific Oceans vii. 226 We could not keep our ship free with all the pumps, and as many hands as could go to and work at them.
1895 E. A. Bibb Poems 51 Go to! and tune thy Muse, To sing us truthful news.
2011 N.Y. Times Mag. 24 Apr. 47/1 I set out to capture the flavors with a farmed duck instead of a wild goose... Though if you can get your hands on a mallard or a canvasback, go to.
b. imperative. Expressing (playful) impatience or dismissiveness, or (mock) disbelief, derision, etc.: ‘get away’. Now archaic and rare.
ΚΠ
?1531 tr. Erasmus Treat. perswadynge Man Patientlye to Suffre sig. C.iij Nowe go to, tell me [L. sed age], what losse is it, that ye susteine by my deth?
1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall Ded. sig. A3 Go to Martin, go to: I know a man is a man, though he haue but a hose on his head.
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. E Goe to, goe to; thou liest Philosophy.
1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 190 Go to, go to, naughty mistrustful Mrs. Pamela.
1798 T. Twining Let. 11 Dec. in Recreat. & Stud. (1882) 232 Go to with your doubts and your wisdom.
1822 Ld. Byron Werner ii. i. 429 Go to! you are a wag.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. i. 6 Go to: why should we not make the public pay for the great benefits we confer on them?
1909 A. Bierce Coll. Wks. V. 249 Go to! go to!—you're as unfitted quite To give advice to writers as to write.
1922 G. Calderon Cromwell in Three Plays & Pantomime ii. i. 223 Go to, thou subtle shaveling.
2. intransitive. Esp. of a door: to shut or close suddenly (with a specified action or noise).
ΚΠ
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 22 Tybert..was a ferde and sprange forth, the grynne wente to [Du. ghink toe], thenne began he to wrawen, for he was almost y stranglyd.
1871 J. E. Cooke Out of Foam iii. xxiii. 319 Wilde..closed the huge door. It went to with a dull clash.
1893 G. Macdonald Poet. Wks. II. 190 Ah, my poor little brother, He's caught in the trap That goes-to with a snap!
1922 Collier's 30 Dec. 21/2 The gate went to with a crash.
1978 R. Thrift Hinderers 341 The bathroom door went to with a quick clap.
2000 C. Reynolds Monuments i. vi. 139 The door went to with a barely audible click.
†3. intransitive. Scottish. Of the sun: to set, go down. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > sun > solar movement > move [verb (intransitive)] > set
nipeeOE
grindc1050
to go to gladec1200
settlea1375
fall?c1400
shaftc1400
rebash1481
to go to1584
sinka1586
welk1590
wave1592
verge1610
sit1621
western1858
1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. Niiij Thow maid the Sunne in tyme go to, that lest He still sould shyne, then night sould neuer come.
1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 152 Thou sall pay him the price of his labour befoir the sunne ga to.
 to go together [with sense 1 compare classical Latin coīre to go together, to have sexual intercourse (see coit n.)]
†1. intransitive. To have sexual intercourse; to mate. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse
playOE
to do (also work) one's kindc1225
bedc1315
couple1362
gendera1382
to go togetherc1390
to come togethera1398
meddlea1398
felterc1400
companya1425
swivec1440
japea1450
mellc1450
to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474
engender1483
fuck?a1513
conversec1540
jostlec1540
confederate1557
coeate1576
jumble1582
mate1589
do1594
conjoin1597
grind1598
consortc1600
pair1603
to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608
commix1610
cock1611
nibble1611
wap1611
bolstera1616
incorporate1622
truck1622
subagitate1623
occupya1626
minglec1630
copulate1632
fere1632
rut1637
joust1639
fanfreluche1653
carnalize1703
screw1725
pump1730
correspond1756
shag1770
hump1785
conjugate1790
diddle1879
to get some1889
fuckeec1890
jig-a-jig1896
perform1902
rabbit1919
jazz1920
sex1921
root1922
yentz1923
to make love1927
rock1931
mollock1932
to make (beautiful) music (together)1936
sleep1936
bang1937
lumber1938
to hop into bed (with)1951
to make out1951
ball1955
score1960
trick1965
to have it away1966
to roll in the hay1966
to get down1967
poontang1968
pork1968
shtup1969
shack1976
bonk1984
boink1985
c1390 (?a1325) Adam & Eve (Vernon) in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 223 (MED) He and Eue, his wyf, wenten togedere, & þo was Caym biȝeten.
c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 14 (MED) Whan þei [sc. hares] be in hure love, þei goon to gidre [a1425 Digby gothe to geders] as houndes, saue þei hold not to gidre as houndes.
2. intransitive. Of two or more things: to be mutually compatible, concomitant, or complementary. Also of a thing: to be concomitant or concurrent with another.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree/be in harmony/be congruous [verb (intransitive)] > be compatible
to go togethersa1387
to go togethera1533
consist1734
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) f. 68v Beautie and foly alway go togyther [Fr. vont en une compagnie].
1591 S. Cottesford Treat. against Traitors sig. F3v This wickednesse was not committed by Jshmaell, but that the will of God did concurre and goe together with his will.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. xvi. 49 Ant. Of Cæsar seeke your Honour, with your safety... Cleo. They do not go together . View more context for this quotation
1620 Examiner No. 651. 631/1 Vixenishness and virtue go together.
1721 P. Aubin Strange Adventures Count de Vinevil Pref. 6 Try to win them to Vertue, by Methods where Delight and Instruction may go together.
1776 B. Victor Orig. Lett., Dramatic Pieces & Poems II. 203 Sometimes, honour and happiness go together.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xxii. 227 Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.
1889 F. C. Philips & C. J. Wills Fatal Phryne I. v. 104 Baldness, science, and snuff-taking go together.
1912 Trans. Mass. Hort. Soc. 176 Nearly all colors go well together in a garden.
1957 E. Fromm Art of Loving ii. 66 The development of patriarchal society goes together with the development of his private property.
2005 Time Out N.Y. 27 Oct. 6/2 Since the days of the Stork Club, celebrity and Gotham nightlife have gone together like smoking and drinking.
†3. intransitive. Of the earth and heaven or hell: to collide, to collapse into one entity. Cf. quot. a1387 for to go togethers at Phrasal verbs 1. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)] > collapse or be demolished
to-fallc893
to-reosea900
tipc1400
to go together1549
to come downa1552
demolish1610
coincide1673
collapse1732
stave1797
1549 J. Ponet tr. B. Ochino Tragoedie Unjuste Usurped Primacie sig. Z.i They trouble all the whole worlde with suche thunderynges in contencions, as thoughe heauen and yearthe went together.
a1602 W. Perkins Treat. Mans Imaginations (1607) i. 17 Then shall heauen, and earth goe together, and the worlde shall bee no more.
1684 C. Cotton Ερωτοπολις 18 You would think Heaven and Earth were going together, you would swear all the Lapland Witches were excercising their Sorceries in Betty-land, such Storms, such Tempests, such Thunder.
1792 A. F. Tytler tr. F. Schiller Robbers ii. 84 The powder magazine blew up.—'Twas as if heaven, earth, and hell had all gone together.
4. intransitive. To be in a romantic or sexual relationship; (in early use also) to be engaged to marry.There is no chronological continuity between this sense and sense 1.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > court or engage in courtship [verb (intransitive)] > walk out with person as lover > keep company as lovers
walk1849
to go together1871
twos1920
1871 Sparks from Forge Fire in Shamrock 8 4/2 Boys and girls goin' together.
1878 Argosy Aug. 142 Jeho and Mally were ‘going together’.
1899 M. E. Wilkins Jamesons iii. 77 People began to say that Harry Liscom and the eldest Jameson girl were going together.
1958 E. Dundy Dud Avocado i. ix. 154 Now that Jim and I were seen around..in public, it became obvious..that we were ‘going together’.
1994 H. Burton Leonard Bernstein i. viii. 82 She was crazy about Lenny, and they went together for quite a long time.
† to go togethers
Obsolete.
intransitive. = to go together at Phrasal verbs 1 (in various senses).
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree/be in harmony/be congruous [verb (intransitive)] > be compatible
to go togethersa1387
to go togethera1533
consist1734
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 7 Þat tyme was so greet tempest..þat it semede þat al þe worlde schulde goo to giders [L. concuteret].
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) i. 16 Whan þei [sc. hares] be in hir loue, they gothe to geders [c1425 Vesp. goon to gidre] as houndes, safe þat þei holde not togyders as the houndes.
 to go under
1. intransitive. To go underwater, to submerge. Also: (of a boat, etc.) to sink; (of a person or animal) to drown.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > sink > in liquid
sinkOE
drench1297
drenklec1330
to go downa1475
replunge1611
submerge1652
swamp1795
to go under1820
1820 Methodist Mag. Nov. 406 He was drowned in the Susquehannah river... He put his head under for the purpose of wetting it..and..staggered backwards into a deep hole, and soon went under.
1854 U.S. Mag. 15 Nov. 203/2 Mr. Allen..had too much reason to fear the loss of his wife and several other relatives..whom he saw placed on the raft of spars before the ship went under.
1919 Times 22 Mar. 8/1 The submarine commander..could do a ‘crash dive’, that is, go under with full weight on.
1958 I. Fleming Dr. No x. 117 The head went under again and there was nothing but muddy froth and a slowly widening red stain that began to seep away downstream.
1991 R. R. McCammon Boy's Life ii. vi. 159 Your dad saw the guy go under, and now the guy's down there in his car gettin' all mossy and eat up by turtles?
2004 Huffington Post (Nexis) 26 Mar. A recently unearthed letter..may offer a new glimpse into those harrowing hours before the ship went under.
2. intransitive. Chiefly U.S. slang. To die. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
1848 G. F. Ruxton Life in Far West i. i, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 717/1 Five of our boys got rubbed out that time... How 'sever, seven of us went under.
1885 B. Harte Maruja vii. 154 What with old Doc West going under so suddent.
1915 I. Ostrander Primal Law vii. 105 She's gone under... She is dead.
1993 R. S. Wheeler Wind River 62 ‘I knew them all,’ said Skye. ‘Most've gone under.’
3. intransitive.
a. To succumb or be overwhelmed in the struggle for survival; to drop out of sight or knowledge.In later use influenced by sense 3b.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > adversity > be in adversity [verb (intransitive)] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition
afalleOE
wanec1000
fallOE
ebba1420
to go backward?a1425
to go down?1440
decay1483
sink?a1513
delapsea1530
reel1529
decline1530
to go backwards1562
rue1576
droop1577
ruina1600
set1607
lapse1641
to lose ground1647
to go to pigs and whistles1794
to come (also go) down in the world1819
to peg out1852
to lose hold, one's balance1877
to go under1879
toboggan1887
slip1930
to turn down1936
1879 J. Payn Finding his Level in High Spirits I. 234 Poor John Weybridge, Esq., became as friendless as penniless, and eventually ‘went under’, and was heard of no more.
1890 Sat. Rev. 15 Mar. 330/2 Intended for publication a considerable time ago..they ‘went under’..and only recently turned up again.
1912 B. T. Washington & R. E. Park Man Farthest Down iv. 59 There is much poverty..—not of those who have been defeated and gone under, but of those who have never got up.
1934 J. M. C. Toynbee Hadrianic School p. xiii Greek art had ‘gone under’ and had been replaced by an almost wholly new art created by Imperial Rome.
2007 B. R. Barber Consumed vi. 251 Marxism has long since gone under as a socioeconomic system.
b. Of a business, venture, etc.: to go bankrupt; to be ruined financially.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [verb (intransitive)] > become bankrupt
to play (the) bankrupt1548
bankrupt1552
to take Ludgate1585
break1600
to go down the weather1611
to break the bank1623
to go to the right shop1655
to swallow a spider1670
to march off1683
to go off1688
to break up shop1712
bust1834
burst1848
to go up King Street1864
to go bust1875
to go under1882
to belly up1886
1882 Proc. Trial U.S. vs. J. W. Dorsey et al. for Conspiracy (Supreme Court D.C.) III. 2949 To use a sort of a nautical commercial phrase, this history says that the concern ‘went under’.
1906 in K. Laybourn Brit. Trade Unionism (1991) 101 During the past few years three tool firms have gone under.
1982 P. Redmond Brookside (Mersey TV shooting script) (O.E.D. Archive) Episode 4. 54 The firm'll go under... You'll be on the dole.
1990 J. Eberts & T. Ilott My Indecision is Final ii. 21 Any one film going under would not mean catastrophe. Thus the portfolio approach would make it more attractive to the investor.
2013 Oldie Apr. 73/1 Your shop is about to go under and you want to sell off everything at half price.
4. intransitive. In sporting contexts: to lose, be beaten (by a specified margin).
ΚΠ
1896 Scotsman 7 Sept. 5/1 Trott and Gregory effected their memorable partnership of 231 runs..and after a desperate fight on the third day went under by six wickets.
1921 Times of India 16 Nov. 12/5 Of the Metropolitan second Division Clubs Clapton Orient went under for the first time at home.
1947 Sporting Mirror 7 Nov. 10/3 Huddersfield were extremely unlucky to go under by an own-goal score to Charlton.
2014 Independent (Nexis) 29 June 22 In last month's Chester Cup Angel Gabrial went under by half a length to Suegioo.
5. intransitive. To be rendered unconscious, esp. by means of an anaesthetic; (also) to succumb to sleep.
ΚΠ
1909 C. H. Johnston in Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. 4 18 The advanced stages of the incomplete anesthesia, of ‘going under’, and of ‘coming out’, from total unconsciousness, disclose in all likelihood..mental phenomena.
1927 V. Woolf To Lighthouse iii. i. 231 Being tired..the candles wavering in her eyes, she had lost herself and gone under.
1955 R. Lindner Fifty-minute Hour 197 It seems as if you're just about to go under, to fall asleep, and then for some reason either you pull yourself back or something automatically checks you and you become wide awake.
1983 R. Sutcliff Blue Remembered Hills (1984) vi. 43 His voice saying quietly, ‘Breathe deeply. Deeply. That's right, that's splendid..’ is a better way of going under than a jab in the arm.
2014 Times (Nexis) 31 Mar. He became so frightened of going under that, ‘The last couple of times, they [sc. the doctors] gave him a drug so he'd forget.’
 to go up
1. intransitive.
a. To move or pass to a higher place or position, or one regarded as higher; to ascend, rise. Frequently with complement.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > rise or go up [verb (intransitive)]
styc825
astyc950
ariseOE
upstyOE
to step upOE
upcomec1000
to come upOE
to go upOE
upwendc1200
runge?c1225
amountc1275
upgoa1325
heavec1325
uparise1340
ascend1382
higha1393
lifta1400
risea1400
skilla1400
uprisea1400
raisec1400
rearc1400
surmount1430
to get upc1450
transcenda1513
springa1525
upmounta1560
assurge?1567
hove1590
surgea1591
tower1618
hoist1647
upheave1649
to draw up1672
spire1680
insurrect1694
soar1697
upsoar1726
uprear1828
higher1889
the world > space > direction > specific directions > have specific directions [verb (intransitive)] > have upward direction
to go upOE
to turn up1608
OE Regularis Concordia (Tiber.) (1993) xliii. 87 Tunc subdiaconus ascendat ad legendum lectionem : þænne se pistelrædere ga upp to rædenne þa rædincge.
OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iii. xvi. 212 Þa gelamp hit, þæt an lytel cniht eode upp unwærlice on ðære nearwan stige gemang oðrum mannum, & þa he feoll of ðam ylcan munte.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1083 He..ȝede upp to þatt allterr.
c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 506 Go vp to him with ful good wille And þi peny him profre.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Shipman's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 212 Vp to hir housbonde is his wyf ygon.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xlvi. D Ioseph bended his charett fast, and wente vp to mete Israel his father.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 77v Goand vp by degres þurgh mony gay alys.
1646 J. Gregory Notes & Observ. 103 The Bride went up to the Bride-Chamber.
1680 P. Rycaut Hist. Turkish Empire 319 A sort of Rocket, which went up very high.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §289 The moveable shears, that had gone up with us, from the top of the first room.
1837 United Service Jrnl. July 363 If a balloon goes up all the town are out about the roads.
1890 Good Words Aug. 520/2 The barometer..is going up at a tremendous rate.
1918 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 271/1 The captain hurriedly slipped on his gum-boots and rain gear and went up on to the bridge.
1989 R. Bass Oil Notes 111 I will go up to Montana..to write about grizzlies.
2000 J. Lanchester Mr. Phillips 237 After a tiny but horrible dip downwards the lift lurches and begins to go up.
b. In the First World War (1914–18): to go to the front line. Cf. up the line at line n.2 20b. Now rare.
ΚΠ
1914 D. O. Barnett Let. 10 Dec. in In Happy Memory (1915) 19 The officer asked me whether I wanted to go to the fire trench... Of course I went up, and got in with the machine-gun section.
1929 R. Aldington Death of Hero iii. vi. 323 Four or five times they passed corpses being carried down the trenches as they went up.
2. intransitive. To approach a person, esp. in order to address him or her. Frequently in to go up to (a person).
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > move towards [verb (intransitive)] > specifically a person
to go upa1387
proacha1450
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 335 Danaus doere of meny euel dedes wente vp to [L. conscendit] þe Argyues, and by gile putte out St[h]enelus.
c1450 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Bodl. 277) (1850) Gen. xliv. 24 [a1425 Royal Therfor whanne we hadden] gon vp [Royal continues stied to thi seruaunt].
1642 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 783 Drake and his Party went up to the Gentleman-Porter, and demanded the Keys of the Gates.
1756 J. Macknight Harmony Four Gospels I. xlix. 156 They were so displeased that they went up and asked him, why he spake in such obscure terms.
1779 F. Burney Let. 27 May in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 280 He went up to the biggest Grinner, & shaking him violently by the shoulders, said..‘Do you Laugh at the Ladies?’
1854 T. H. Benton Thirty Years' View I. 420/2 He went up to Mr. Clay, and asked him for a pinch of his fine maccoboy snuff.
1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist i. 57 I'd go straight up to the rector and tell him about it after dinner.
1982 W. Lowenstein & T. Hills Under Hook 76 Go up and tell him that it's too dirty to work today.
1992 P. Auster Leviathan (1993) ii. 61 She would..go up to him at these gatherings and compliment him on what he was wearing.
2003 New Yorker 22 Dec. 132/2 I just went up to Mary and asked to speak to her private-like.
3. intransitive. Of a cry, shout, etc.: to be uttered or raised. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > cry or exclaim [verb (intransitive)] > issue (of cry)
to go up?1473
burst1678
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 77v Than began the bothe parties to make theyr cryes that went vp in to the Ayer [no corresponding clause in French original: Fr. leurs cris only].
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. v. 12 The noyse of the cite wente up into heauen.
1588 J. Lyster Rule How to bring vp Children f. 58v The cryes goe vp, euen the cryes of the Lord, to testifie vnto Israell, to giue thankes vnto the name of ye Lord.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Sam. v. 12. The cry of the citie went vp to heauen. View more context for this quotation
1666 R. P. Londons Lament. 1 Hear what dismal cryes and shrieks up went.
1722 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers vi. 313 A Cry went up through the whole City.
1749 J. Wesley Jrnl. 3 July (1754) 131 A Cry went up on every Side; till Joseph Fry..broke out into Prayer.
1869 T. Hughes Alfred the Great i. 8 This cry..has been going up from all sections of English society.
1890 Murray's Mag. Oct. 556 A shriek has gone up as to the wickedness of carrying cattle upon deck.
1945 R. Cranston Story Woodrow Wilson p. xv The bells rang out, the cannon boomed, a great shout went up.
1973 N.Y. Times 22 Apr. 11/1 A howl of outrage went up..deploring such treatment of ‘man's best friend’.
2001 J. O'Brien At Home in Heart of Appalachia ii. 32 A roar goes up, and the men swarm out.
4. intransitive. To be constructed, erected, or built.
ΚΠ
1605 W. Crashawe in W. Perkins Exhort. to Repentance To Rdr. sig. *7v By our ioynt powers and our forces layd together: the walles of this worthy building, may goe vp the fairer & the faster.
1668 S. Rolle Londons Resurrection xxi. 138 The temple went up amain.
1766 E. Barnard Serm. preached before F. Barnard 9 The walls went up, and the city filled with inhabitants.
a1837 E. D. Griffin Serm. (1844) xlvii. 239/1 So rapidly did the walls go up, that in the short space of fifty-two days..they were finished.
1892 Harper's Mag. May 959/2 Already barricades were going up in the larger streets.
1958 Listener 20 Nov. 827/1 A point block of government offices is now going up at Wellington.
1992 H. N. Schwarzkopf It doesn't take Hero vii. 96 One week after my tour ended, the Berlin Wall went up.
5. intransitive.
a. To be lifted, elevated, or raised (typically for some particular purpose); (also) to be hoisted.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > raise [verb (intransitive)] > be raised
hoise1565
to go up1607
weigh1655
1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe ii. sig. C3v Your hands went vp towards heauen.
1728 R. Ashton Battle of Aughrim i. 1 (stage direct.) The Play opens with a Martial Sound of Kettle Drums and Trumpets behind the Scenes, after which the Curtain goes up.
1792 J. Pearson Polit. Dict. 54 The Mayor's right leg went down as the train-bearer's left leg went up.
1859 Home Monthly Oct. 181/1 Both her dainty hands went up in horror.
1865 C. C. Coffin Days & Nights Battlefield iv. 85 The Rebel flag comes down, and the white flag goes up.
1897 H. Caine Christian iv. iv. 454 Countless eyes went up to the place where Drake stood with Glory by his side.
1907 Daily Chron. 1 Oct. 4/5 The curtain goes up..to some feeble handclaps from invited guests.
1920 F. W. Wallace Blue Water viii. 126 The sail went up with a snapping of canvas.
1995 Independent 22 May 23/8 ‘How many of you here use our browser?’.. A forest of hands went up.
†b. Of a sword: to be put up, be sheathed. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) v. i. 52 I draw a Sword against Conspirators, When thinke you that the Sword goes vp againe? View more context for this quotation
a1627 T. Middleton Witch (1945) iv. iii. 54 Looke you, my Sword goes vp.
c. Of a sign, notice, etc.: to be displayed or put in a place where it may be seen; (of a piece of information) to be displayed on a noticeboard, scoreboard, etc.
ΚΠ
1855 Churchman's Monthly Mag. Sept. 552 The sign went up again over the long-closed office.
1882 Daily Tel. 19 May After some slow play, the 50 went up.
1944 Billboard 1 Jan. 24/2 A new name over an old establishment went up in lights last week when Augie's Theater Lounge Bar..opened.
1952 Life 15 Dec. 127 My name went up on the board for shipment to North Africa.
1974 Michiganensian 78 101/2 M's touchdown goes up on the scoreboard.
2010 Private Eye 28 May 6/2 Posters have gone up in the lavatories with a nude photo of a man covering his modesty.
d. To be added to or made available on the internet, a website, etc.
ΚΠ
1995 Billboard 10 June 62/5 New Line Cinema is using the Internet to promote its forthcoming film... The Web site went up May 26.
1996 InfoWorld 22 July 62/1 In the past, all customers received product specifications..in person or through the mail... Now the specifications go up on the Web site immediately.
2001 N.Y. Times Mag. 15 July 35/1 AskMe.com..went up on the Web in February 2000 and quickly became the most heavily used of a dozen or so knowledge exchanges.
2014 B. Isenberg Tradition! 179 Miranda's..video, called ‘To Life: Vanessa's Wedding Surprise’, went up on YouTube four days after the wedding.
6. intransitive.
a. Of a road, passage, etc.: to lead up to or towards somewhere. Also: to extend to a point in space.
ΚΠ
1615 E. Grimeston tr. P. d'Avity Estates 397 Afterwards you enter into a little street which goes vp to [F. qui va en haut à] Mont Cauallo.
1664 P. Wyche tr. J. Freire de Andrade Life Dom John de Castro 267 On the Gospel-side is a Door goes up to the top of the Building.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 255 The great..Gulph, which goes up to Siam.
1754 tr. B. S. Albinus Explan. Anat. Fig. Human Skeleton 155 It [sc. the Thyreoepiglotticus major] then goes up by the side of the glottis.
1840 in Trial J. Frost for High Treason 699 One part of the tram-road goes up towards the hills.
1896 Howe's Hist. Coll. Ohio (new ed.) II. 259/1 Above me the hole went up indefinitely.
1920 I. A. R. Wylie Children of Storm 19 A ladder went up through a trap-door in the ceiling.
1963 Pop. Sci. May 18 The atmosphere's ozone layer..goes up to 60-mile altitude.
2011 F. Forsberg Beyond Expectations xxii. 223 The hill goes up at about a thirty degree angle.
b. To extend forward or reach back to a certain time, period of history, ancestor, etc.With reference to genealogy cf. ascend v. 9.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [verb (intransitive)] > ascend
ascend1528
to go up1770
1770 Polit. Reg. July 13 There is drawn up a formal genealogy of all the kings and queens of England, since the Conquest, and it goes up from George the Second, through all these princes, to Henry the First.
1837 5th Rep. Select Comm. Railway Subscription Lists in Parl. Papers XVIII. 139 The number of subscribers..begins and goes up to the present time.
1885 Voice to Faithful 19 102 His [sc. Christ's] genealogy goes up to Adam.
1930 J. L. Myres Who were the Greeks? 308 Hecataeus' genealogy went back sixteen generations, and then ‘went up to a god’.
1985 Washington Post (Nexis) 4 Jan. 5 The card catalogue only goes up to 1980.
2010 R. D. Martin My Seven Dinner Guests xxx. 204 My knowledge of future events..only went up to the time the second Martin family was at their poorest.
7. intransitive.
a. To appear before (or in front of) a judge, tribunal, or other deliberative or authoritative body.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > [verb (intransitive)] > appear before court
appear1330
'peara1382
to go up1673
1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 185 All the Electors go up before the Priors.
a1723 G. Whitehead Christian Progress (1725) 185 Being called to go up before the King, I had a fair Opportunity to open The Case of our suffering Friends.
1819 Trial J. Merceron 18th May, 1818 in Trials J. Merceron 110 I went up before the board of magistrates.
1868 Bailou's Monthly Mag. May 479/2 John..went up before the deacon.
1917 Condition Mississippi Choctaws in Hearing before U.S. House Comm. Investig. Indian Service II. 141 Did you go up before the Dawes Commission and tell them that that was the land you wanted?
1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four iii. i. 235 Do you know what I'm going to say to them when I go up before the tribunal?
1985 Weekly World News 16 Apr. 31/1 When I went up in front of the judge for my sentence I was alone.
2011 Guardian (Nexis) 11 Jan. 33 Bob Diamond of Barclays goes up before the treasury committee today.
b. Of a bill, proposal, etc.: to be passed to a (higher) deliberative or legislative body for consideration.
ΚΠ
a1702 A. Grey Deb. House of Commons 1667–94 (1763) VII. 476 If you stay the Bill going up to the Lords, you must have some grounds from Evidence the better to carry on the Bill there.
1823 Parl. Deb. 2nd Ser. 9 36 The indictment went up before the grand jury.
1844 Fraser's Mag. 30 504 The writ went up to the Lords.
1894 Amer. Jrnl. Politics Nov. 461 It is still more seldom that a measure goes up from the Lower House with so distinct a mandate from the people behind it.
1982 Scouting Oct. 46 Smith's proposals went up through the Forest Service chain of command.
2004 Z. Karabell C. A. Arthur vii. 105 The Pendleton Bill went up for debate in December 1882.
8. intransitive. To be consumed by fire; to blow up, explode. Also figurative: to be destroyed. Frequently in to go up in flames, to go up in smoke at smoke n. 4k.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > burn or be on fire [verb (intransitive)]
forburnc893
burnc1000
swealc1275
combure1599
to go up1716
swither1865
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > burn or be on fire [verb (intransitive)] > catch fire or begin to burn
quicka1225
kindle?c1225
tindc1290
atend1398
to catch fire (also afire, on fire)c1400
quickenc1425
enkindle1556
fire1565
to set on fire1596
take1612
catch1632
conflagrate1657
to fly on fire1692
to go up1716
deflagrate1752
flagrate1756
inflame1783
ignite1818
to fire up1845
the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > be violent [verb (intransitive)] > explode or go off (of firearms, gunpowder, etc.)
to go off1560
fulminate1651
springa1658
explode1673
displode1812
to go up1950
1716 T. Boston Everlasting Espousals (ed. 2) 45 The Day will come that this Earth, and the Works that are therein shall go up in Flames.
1767 R. Clarke Gospel of Daily-service 4 In the Hebrew, the Burnt-Offering is Gnolah, that is, an Ascension; because by burning all in Fire, it went up in Smoke and Vapor.
1854 S. Robinson Hot Corn 32 She stands..looking at their home and every earthly thing going up in flame and smoke heavenward.
1898 Cent. Mag. Sept. 665/1 The very night in which the glory of Asia went up in flames, Alexander was born in Pella.
1950 A. P. Herbert Independent Member 167 The shattered ‘skid’ astern of a mine-sweeper that meant a mine gone up.
1971 Daily Tel. 5 Nov. (Colour Suppl.) 29/2 He left the sea, having had what amounted to a nervous breakdown, ‘always thinking of the other ships that went up, the bombings and suchlike’.
2011 C. Howse Pilgrim in Spain v. 77 The munitions..went up in a great explosion.
9. intransitive. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). To be brought to ruin or destruction; to be done for; to become bankrupt. Also: to die; to be killed; spec. †to be hanged (obsolete). Frequently in to be gone up. Now historical and rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (intransitive)] > be killed
to be deadc1000
fallOE
spilla1300
suffera1616
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) toa1774
to lose the number of one's mess1807
to go up1825
to get his (also hers, theirs)1903
to cop (also stop, catch, get, etc.) a packet1916
click1917
not to know (or to wonder) what hit one1923
to get the works1928
to go for a burton1941
(to get) the chop or chopper1945
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (intransitive)] > be destroyed, ruined, or come to an end
losec888
fallOE
forlesea1225
perishc1275
spilla1300
to go to wreche13..
to go to the gatec1330
to go to lostc1374
miscarryc1387
quenchc1390
to bring unto, to fall into, to go, put, or work to wrakea1400
mischieve?a1400
tinea1400
to go to the devilc1405
bursta1450
untwindc1460
to make shipwreck1526
to go to (the) pot1531
to go to wreck (and ruin)a1547
wrake1570
wracka1586
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
to lie in the dusta1591
mischief1598
to go (etc.) to rack (and ruin)1599
shipwreck1607
suffera1616
unravel1643
to fall off1684
tip (over) the perch1699
to do away with1769
to go to the dickens1833
collapse1838
to come (also go) a mucker1851
mucker1862
to go up1864
to go to squash1889
to go (to) stramash1910
to go for a burton1941
to meet one's Makera1978
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan III. 233 Whose narrow escape, when his brother spy ‘went up’, he said, was quite a ‘murigle’.
1864 Liverpool Mercury 8 June 7/3 Soon after the blockade many thought we should ‘go up’ on the salt question.
1867 W. H. Dixon New Amer. I. xi. 132 Gone up, in the slang of Denver, means gone up a tree—that is to say, a cotton tree... In plain English, the man is said to have been hung.
1888 P. H. Sheridan Personal Mem. I. 86 He remarked, ‘Well, I fear that they are gone up,’ a phrase used..to mean that they had been killed.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xvi. 248 We've rather bad news for you..your firm's gone up.
1907 J. Masefield Tarpaulin Muster 101 To your prayers, boys. We're gone up.
1981 M. Harris America Now i. 14 It's all going up... It's too late for anything.
2002 M. Jakober Only call Us Faithful (2006) 259 Fislar's voice was lifeless with defeat. ‘I guess we're gone up, Zack.’
10. intransitive. To increase or rise in number, quantity, value, price, or degree (to a specified amount or level, or by a specified amount).
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [verb (intransitive)] > rise (of prices) > rise in price
arise1340
rise?1468
mend1606
advance1664
to run up1705
to go up1826
enhance1889
ripen1892
1826 Parl. Hist. 13 Mar. 156/1 The exchanges going up, the Bank took fright, and in three months brought down their circulation to 17,400,000l.
1883 R. C. Praed Moloch I. i. iv. 79 Wool would go up a penny a pound.
1892 Standard 9 Feb. 5/3 Beef and mutton will ‘go up’ for a time.
1968 Melody Maker 30 Mar. 24/3 He just heard the news about Scotch and fags going up, went deathly white and rushed down the pub waving fivers.
1970 R. Kothari Politics in India 348 During the same period coal production went up by 100 per cent.
1988 E. M. Cohen Working on New Play iv. 47 Concentration goes up. Anxiety goes up.
2012 L. Galambos Creative Society ix. 139 Educational standards went up sharply in business.
11. intransitive.
a. To take an examination; to put oneself forward for something.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > educational administration > examination > examine [verb (intransitive)] > sit
sit1830
to go up1842
1842 Mirror Lit., Amusem., & Instr. 30 Apr. 276/1 Pauperly went up for his little-go, as the first examination is termed.
1861 Temple Bar 3 515 A certain number..go up for examination to be ruthlessly plucked.
1875 L. Troubridge Jrnl. 24 June in Life amongst Troubridges (1966) 123 ‘Ernest has passed first of all!’... Fancy, first of all the sixty-eight boys who went up.
1879 C. M. Yonge Magnum Bonum I. xxi. 426 I mean to go up for a scholarship next year.
1906 Commonw. Austral. Parl. Deb. (3rd Sess. 2nd Parl.) XXXIV. 3938/1 If I went up for election at the next elections, and were not returned, and the new Parliament met in March or April, I should have the right to sit here and record my votes up to the 1st July.
1962 G. Brenan Life of One's Own v. 61 I went up for examinations at both Winchester and Radley.
2011 C. White Upper Cut 264 Louise had just gone up for the role of a nurse working in an insane asylum.
b. To go to or enter university or college, esp. for the first time.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > learning > [verb (intransitive)] > go to university
studyc1447
to go up1848
scholarize1894
1848 Rambler 22 Jan. 60/1 Young men go up to Oxford and Cambridge with an idea that they are to be treated as gentlemen.
1862 in Durham Univ.: Copy of Evid. taken by Commissioners (1863) 54/2 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 77) XLVI. 275 I went up in 1853, and I took my degree in 1856.
1885 A. Edwardes Girton Girl III. xiii. 230 Very likely I may go up to Girton as a bye-term man in January.
1912 R. Davol Two Men of Taunton i. 43 Thomas..was born at Barnstable in 1694. There he lived until he went up to Harvard College for the class of 1717.
1955 Times 9 May 13/1 He was educated at Sywell House School, Llandudno, whence he went up to Oxford.
2013 R. Colls G. Orwell i. 13 He went up to Eton College in May 1917.
12. intransitive. Of a light: to be turned on or to become brighter, esp. during or at the end of a performance or show in a theatre, cinema, etc.
ΚΠ
1852 Knickerbocker Oct. 360 The foot-lights go up, and the scene brightens.
1890 Longman's Mag. Feb. 392 The lights going up again the audience returned to the performance.
1920 P. G. Wodehouse Jill the Reckless (1922) xviii. 260 The house-lights went up.
1960 A. Koestler Lotus & Robot ii. vi. 166 Then the lights go up, the town changes into a bubble-bath of coloured neon.
2003 C. Birch Turn again Home iii. 44 The lights went up for the interval.
PV2. With prepositions in specialized senses. to go about ——
1. intransitive. To encircle, encompass, or surround wholly or partially.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > surround or lie around [verb (transitive)]
befong971
beclipc1000
begoc1000
belieOE
bestandc1000
to go about ——OE
umbegangc1200
behema1250
befallc1275
berunc1275
girdc1290
bihalvena1300
umlapa1300
umlaya1300
umlouka1300
umbegoc1300
belayc1320
halsea1340
enclose1340
umbelapa1350
embracec1360
betrendc1374
circlec1374
umbecasta1375
to give about1382
environa1393
umbeclipa1395
compassa1400
encircle?a1400
enourle?a1400
umbegivea1400
umbeseta1400
umbeliec1400
umbetighc1400
enroundc1420
measurec1425
umbsteadc1450
adviron?1473
purprise1481
umbeviron1489
belta1500
girtha1500
overgirda1500
engirt15..
envirea1513
round?a1513
brace1513
umbereach1513
becompass1520
circuea1533
girtc1540
umbsetc1540
circule1553
encompass1555
circulate?a1560
ingyre1568
to do about1571
engird1573
circumdate1578
succinge1578
employ1579
circuate1581
girdle1582
wheel1582
circumgyre1583
enring1589
ringa1592
embail1593
enfold1596
invier1596
stem1596
circumcingle1599
ingert1599
engirdle1602
circulize1603
circumscribe1605
begirt1608
to go round1610
enwheela1616
surround1616
shingle1621
encirculize1624
circumviron1632
beround1643
orba1644
circumference1646
becircle1648
incircuitc1650
circumcinge1657
circumtend1684
besiege1686
cincture1789
zone1795
cravat1814
encincture1820
circumvent1824
begirdle1837
perambulate1863
cordon1891
OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) ii. 11 An ea of ðam hatte Fison; seo gæð onbutan [L. circuit] ðæt land ðe is gehaten Euilað, ðær ðær gold wyxð.
c1300 St. Brendan (Laud) 18 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 220 Þe see Occean..goth a-boute al þe world and alle oþere cometh þer-to.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 3 Þe see geþ him al aboute, he stond as in an yle.
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. l. 788 Another [garden] with a diche aboute ygoon is.
1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 6 A fyne linnen cloth a hand broade, and as longe that it maye go aboute hys heade.
1615 T. Adams Blacke Devill 25 His walke is a siege, that goes about the Fort.
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 75 This body, part tawny, part purple, with rings of white and green mixt, that go about her.
1707 J. Drake Anthropol. Nova I. App. 26/2 A branch of the aforesaid Shoot going about the Pneumonick Vein.
1747 J. T. Desaguliers tr. W. J. 's Gravesande Math. Elements Nat. Philos. (ed. 6) I. iv. xi. 79 The Rope goes about the Wheels Q and r.
1857 G. Gaylord Culm Rock xii. 197 Noll's arm went about his uncle's neck.
1888 J. Harris tr. D. Owen Rhys Lewis xxx. 272 With the exception of the path, which went about it [sc. the garden], it was fairly hidden with thorns and brambles.
1912 F. M. Hueffer Ladies whose Bright Eyes ix. 102 The part which went about his waist was red and white chequers.
1922 J. O. Curwood Country Beyond vii. 94 His thin arm went about her.
2006 Manila Times (Nexis) 31 Dec. His hands went about his head, met and clasped behind his neck.
2. intransitive. To busy oneself with; to set to work on, deal with; to continue or carry on with. Also in early use: †to seek after (obsolete).See also to go about one's business at business n. Phrases 4a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > undertaking > undertake [verb (transitive)] > tackle or proceed to deal with
entreat?a1450
overtakea1500
to go on ——1508
take1523
to go about ——?1533
to set upon ——1555
fall1589
to turn one's hand1628
to take to task1649
tackle1847
to take on1898
a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 294 Some ȝeode..aboute hare Marchaundise.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Friar's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 230 Bothe we goon abouten oure purchas Taak thow thy part what þt men wol thee yeue And I shal myn.
?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Ci To go about rychesse, Ambicion.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 187 Yf they [sc. bees] goe about their businesse cheerefully.
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 436 The worke which himselfe and Paul went about.
1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Num. xi. 13) 19 Lust is unsatisfiable; to go about it, is to go about an endless piece of work.
1687 Bp. G. Burnet Def. Refl. Varillas's Hist. Heresies 33 Those who write upon true Information, know what they go about.
1739 J. Wesley Let. 16 Sept. in Wks. (1872) XII. 108 Let the leaden cistern be gone about.
1772 Crit. Rev. Aug. 99 They went about the work in good earnest.
1826 Lancet 9 Dec. 316/2 He went about his usual employments until within his few hours previous to his death.
1885 M. Linskill Lost Son 247 She went about her work in a cold, impassive way.
1902 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly May 84/2 If they wanted me for a recruit they were going about it the wrong way.
1992 P. Auster Leviathan (1993) iii. 112 Sachs understood that she was playing with him, but he rather enjoyed the way she went about it.
2004 Guardian 18 May i. 23/4 We ought to rethink how we go about the important task of preventing heart disease.
 to go after ——
1. intransitive. To go in pursuit of; to hunt. Also: to seek the company of (a person), esp. as a lover.See also to go after strange flesh at flesh n. 1h.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > follow [verb (transitive)] > pursue
followOE
driveOE
to go after ——OE
to come after——c1275
pursuec1300
suec1300
catcha1325
chasec1330
enchasec1380
to pursue aftera1387
ensuea1513
subsecute1548
prosecute1549
jass1577
course1587
to make after ——a1592
scorse1596
chevya1825
to take out after1865
shag1913
OE Ælfric Old Test. Summary: Maccabees (Julius) in W. W. Skeat Ælfric's Lives of Saints (1900) II. 110 Ac him [sc. Judas] æfter eode þæt oðer gefylce mid gefeohte hindan [L. secuti sunt post Iudam et qui cum ipso erant a tergo].
c1400 Bk. to Mother (Bodl.) 168 Þes ben grucchers, pleiners, goinge aftur here desires.
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 158 Hercules dyd on the skyn of the lyon and toke his swerd his bowe & his arowes And than wente after the geantes.
a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 101 (MED) Pharao..toke þre hundyrt of charyotes of hys owne..and ȝode aftyr hom.
c1510 H. Watson tr. Valentine & Orson sig. B.v Whan the Archebysshop sawe that the lady was departed, he thought in hymselfe that he wolde go after her, and that with her he wolde do his pleasure.
1664 C. Jelinger Cluster of Sweetest Grapes for Saints 75 O Souls, Souls here are Apples, flagons, here showers of Mannah for you to be had by you. Oh! go after them.
1732 H. Baker & J. Miller tr. Molière Squire Lubberly iii. vi. 131 in Sel. Comedies VI She's become so mad for him, that she has left you to go after him.
1752 London Mag. Nov. 606/1 Some drovers coming by, he discover'd his case to them, who went after the villain.
1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest I. iv. 58 Now, Edward, we are going after a fine stag.
1889 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 659 Don't you go after that Frenchwoman. They're not to be trusted.
1913 H. Gordon River Motor Boat Boys on Columbia xxiii. 243 Perhaps you'd better get your men together, all ready to go after the robbers.
1961 R. Gover One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding 32 I didn't know whether to go after her or wait patiently for whatever might happen next.
2007 Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville) (Nexis) 14 Aug. b7 The officers' time would have been better spent going after the thugs who are giving our city its bloody reputation.
2. intransitive. to go after (other) gods: (in biblical use) to worship gods other than the God of Israel. Also in extended use. [Ultimately after Hebrew hālaḵ 'aḥărē 'ēlōhīm 'ăḥērīm (Deuteronomy 13:2, etc.), lit. ‘to go after other gods’, where hālaḵ 'aḥărē , lit. ‘to go after’, is used in the figurative sense ‘to follow the guidance of (a person)’. Compare similar uses of walk v. 7a and see the etymological note at that sense; compare also post-classical Latin ambulare post deos alienos (Vulgate), a calque on the Hebrew idiom.]
ΚΠ
1530 Bible (Tyndale) Deut. xiii. f. xxvv Lat vs goo after straunge Goddes which thou hast not knowen, and let vs serue them.
1534 G. Joye tr. Jeremy Prophete ix. sig. D.ii v They..folowed the craftynes of their owne shrewed hartis & went aftir goddes as their fathers taught them.
1554 J. Knox Faythfull Admon. sig. B. v Thys people..go after other gods, to worship and serue them.
1673 T. Holme Brief Relation Sufferings of Quakers in Ireland 68 Solomon went after other Godds, and took Wives of the Idolatrous Nations.
1709 W. Reeves in tr. Justin Martyr et al. Apol. II. xl. 342 Let their vain Imaginations go after Gods of their own Invention.
1764 A. Purver New & Literal Transl. Bks. Old & New Test. II. (Jer. vii. 6) Neither shed innocent Blood in thie Place, not go after other gods to your own Hurt.
1868 Friends' Intelligencer 21 Mar. 28/1 They have gone after gods that could do them no good.
1986 E. E. Cleveland Milk & Honey 124 They went after gods of wood and stone.
2008 M. Slaughter Momentum for Life (rev. ed.) vii. 125 We abandon the path of ascent to go after gods that promise to make us happy.
 to go again ——
regional and nonstandard in later use.
intransitive. = to go against —— at Phrasal verbs 2 (in various senses).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (transitive)]
withgo743
to go again ——OE
withsayc1175
again-goc1275
withsitc1300
thwarta1325
to go against ——a1382
counter1382
repugnc1384
adversea1393
craba1400
gainsaya1400
movec1400
overthwart?a1425
to put (also set) one's face againsta1425
traversea1425
contrairc1425
to take again ——c1425
contraryc1430
to take against ——a1450
opposec1485
again-seta1500
gain?a1500
oppone1500
transverse1532
to come up against1535
heave at1546
to be against1549
encounter1549
to set shoulder against1551
to fly in the face of1553
crossc1555
to cross with1590
countermand1592
forstand1599
opposit1600
thorter1608
obviate1609
disputea1616
obstrigillate1623
contradict1632
avert1635
to set one's hand against1635
top1641
militate1642
to come across ——1653
contrariate1656
to cross upon (or on)1661
shock1667
clash1685
rencounter1689
obtend1697
counteract1708
oppugnate1749
retroact?1761
controvert1782
react1795
to set against ——1859
appose-
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > move towards or approach (a thing, place, or person) [verb (transitive)] > go to meet
to go again ——OE
to go against ——a1375
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > [verb (transitive)] > result unfavourably to
to go again ——OE
to go against ——a1425
to go hard with1530
OE Writ of Cnut to People of Eng. (York) ix. 274 Gif hwa swa dyrstig sy..þæt ongean Godes lage ga & ongean minne cynescype oððe ongean woroldriht..þonne bidde ic Þurcyl eorl & eac beode, þæt he ðæne unrihtwisan to rihte gebige, gyf he mæge.
OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Lev. (Claud.) xxvi. 23 Gyf ge nellað onfon mine lare, & gað ongean me, ic ga ongen eow & slea eow.
OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Deut. (Claud.) xxviii. 7 Drihten afylð ðine fynd beforan ðe; on anne weg hi gað ongean ðe [L. venient contra te] & on seofon wegum hi fleoð fram ðe.
c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 2058 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 165 Þare-with wel baldeliche he eode a-ȝein is fon.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xix. l. 356 We beth nouȝte of strengthe To gone agayne pryde, but grace were with vs.
?1530 Dialoges Creatures Moralysed xliii. sig. D.iv He found a cruell serpent..and beleuyd that he had be a Lampurn and went agayne hym and sayde. Thowe cursed wretche.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality ix, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 171 The law gaed again the leddies at last.
1833 S. Bunbury My Foster Brother (ed. 2) 24 Your father never went agen my word yet.
1879 Scribner's Monthly May 91/2 Because luck went agen you, and because it's gone agen me.
1917 M. Webb Gone to Earth (1918) xiv. 131 Many's the time..as you've gone agen me and done what I gainsayed.
1982 B. G. Charles Eng. Dial. S. Pembrokeshire 7 To come or go agen = to meet.
 to go against ——
1. intransitive. To go to meet. regional and rare after 16th cent.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > move towards or approach (a thing, place, or person) [verb (transitive)] > go to meet
to go again ——OE
to go against ——a1375
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 4954 Gladli wiþ grete lordes sche goþ him aȝens.
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 82 She wente agaynst him & toke him by the hande.
1518 H. Watson tr. Hystorye Olyuer of Castylle xlv. sig. K.iv Whan the kynge apperceyued hym he wente agaynst hym, and began for to kysse hym.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 570/1 I go agaynst one, I go to mete hym..We be ynowe to go against hym.
1982 B. G. Charles Eng. Dial. S. Pembrokeshire 25/1 Go against, to go to meet.
2. intransitive.
a. To run contrary to; to be or act in opposition to; to militate against. Also to go against nature: to run contrary to that which is considered to be natural; cf. against nature at nature n. Phrases 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (transitive)]
withgo743
to go again ——OE
withsayc1175
again-goc1275
withsitc1300
thwarta1325
to go against ——a1382
counter1382
repugnc1384
adversea1393
craba1400
gainsaya1400
movec1400
overthwart?a1425
to put (also set) one's face againsta1425
traversea1425
contrairc1425
to take again ——c1425
contraryc1430
to take against ——a1450
opposec1485
again-seta1500
gain?a1500
oppone1500
transverse1532
to come up against1535
heave at1546
to be against1549
encounter1549
to set shoulder against1551
to fly in the face of1553
crossc1555
to cross with1590
countermand1592
forstand1599
opposit1600
thorter1608
obviate1609
disputea1616
obstrigillate1623
contradict1632
avert1635
to set one's hand against1635
top1641
militate1642
to come across ——1653
contrariate1656
to cross upon (or on)1661
shock1667
clash1685
rencounter1689
obtend1697
counteract1708
oppugnate1749
retroact?1761
controvert1782
react1795
to set against ——1859
appose-
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xxvi. 27 Ȝif..ȝe heeryn not me, bote gooþ aȝeyns me [L. ambulaveritis contra me], & y shal go aȝeyns ȝow [L. ego incedam adversum vos] in contrarie woodnes.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 570/1 I go against nature, or do a thynge contrarye to nature.
1688 Bp. G. Burnet Three Lett. State of Italy 111 The smallest thing, that seems..to go against their Interest, is lookt after with a very watchful care.
1755 Universal Mag. June 289/2 Every man of them went against me, and I lost my election.
1794 Freemasons' Mag. Feb. 141 As far as he had read, his extracts went against his own arguments.
1869 H. Businell Women's Suffrage i. 30 Reforms that go against nature.
1878 Scribner's Monthly 16 82/2 How will he ever expect to get the money if he goes against my wishes?
1885 E. Lynn Linton Autobiogr. Christopher Kirkland I. viii. 224 Literature..was a thing which went dead against our family traditions.
1971 R. N. Williams New Exiles vi. 201 They knew too..that something was wrong, but they didn't want to go against it.
1992 D. Adams Mostly Harmless iv. 45 He didn't believe in people coming in from New York first thing in the morning. Didn't hold with it. Went against nature.
2015 Times (Nexis) 3 Jan. (Weekend section) 4 The idea of eating fat to lose weight probably goes against everything you think is true.
b. In various phrases expressing the action of opposing or being contrary to natural inclination or feeling. Cf. to go against the grain at grain n.1 16b.
ΚΠ
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ii. 18 (MED) It goyse agans myn hart full sore.
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 89 I will goe against the haire in all thinges.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xiii. sig. I1v As it went against my harte to breake any way from you.
1611 J. Maxwell tr. Treasure of Tranquillity v. 34 All things go against their stomacke, all things displease them, whether to bee imployed, or to be idle.
1680 E. Settle Female Prelate v. 65 I tell thee it goes against the grain to pray and pay too, I'll not do't not I.
1733 Craftsman 21 Apr. 213 It goes against my heart to insult the Unfortunate.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xi. ii. 109 It would go horribly against me to have her come to any Harm. View more context for this quotation
1814 F. Burney Wanderer I. i. iii. 66 It goes against me to think ill of you.
1855 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Jan. 249/1 It went against my heart to resist the young fellow's hearty invitation.
1936 Boys' Life Apr. 29/1 It goes against my conscience to commit an act that might be misinterpreted as murder.
1997 Sight & Sound Sept. 37/1 It goes against the grain to believe that the couple who visited all these misfortunes on him are at heart decent, folksy Americans.
3. intransitive. Esp. of a judgment, decision, or vote: to result unfavourably for or to the disadvantage of.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > [verb (transitive)] > result unfavourably to
to go again ——OE
to go against ——a1425
to go hard with1530
a1425 (a1396) R. Maidstone Paraphr. Seven Penitential Psalms (BL Add. 39574) l. 207 in M. Day Wheatley MS (1921) 28 (MED) I drede thy dome aȝeins me goth.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xv. 40 Ye mater was lykely to go yll agaynst the erle.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 112 Neuer thing prospered with me, but it hath gone against me.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vi. 231 The accusation prevailed more than compassion, and the matter went against him.
1680 J. Rushworth Tryal Thomas Earl of Strafford 230 The Major Vote went against Sir Robert Meredith.
1716 T. Baston Thoughts on Trade 68 If he cannot Fee an Attorney to appear for him, he shall have Judgment go against him by Default.
1786 Crit. Rev. June 447 The expense, loss of time, and vexation which falls upon him [sc. the distiller], when disputes happen between him and the excise,..are often attended with his ruin, if judgment goes against him.
1845 L. Lee & E. Smith Deb. Gen. Conf. M.E. Church, 1844 334 The decision went against slavery.
1862 Temple Bar 5 25 The case had gone dead against them from the beginning.
1915 Princeton Alumni Weekly 10 Nov. 154/1 The ‘breaks’ of the game..went against Princeton.
1960 M. Spark Bachelors ii. 19 You're going to leave Alice in a nice pickle if the case goes against you.
2006 B. J. Messamore Canada's Governors Gen., 1847–78 v. 80 The vote went against the government by 64 votes to 50.
 to go at ——
1. intransitive. To attack, make an attack upon; (also) to set about or deal with, esp. vigorously or enthusiastically. Also to go at it: to engage vigorously or enthusiastically in some specified or implied activity.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)]
twig1573
to go at ——1675
to go it1794
to come it1796
to lay it on thick1806
to blaze away1826
bushwhack1837
steam1842
split1844
rustle1882
to work like a demon1884
yank1888
go-at-it1904
to go somea1911
to put a jerk in it1919
to go (also do) one's (also a) dinger1923
to work (etc.) one's ass off1924
to go to town1933
to gie (or give) it laldy1974
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > attack (of animal)
to venture on (also uponc1528
bait1570
to go at ——1675
tack1720
to go for ——1838
sick1845
aggress1882
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > carry on vigorously [verb (transitive)] > apply oneself to vigorously
to stand to ——?a1400
to shove at1542
to fall upon ——1617
to work awaya1635
to fall aboard1642
to fall on ——1650
to go at ——1675
to pitch into ——1823
to lay into1880
to be (also go) at the ——1898
to sail in1936
1675 Accomplish'd Lady's Delight 233 If the Fisher-Man espye him [sc. the Salmon], he goeth at him with his Spear.
1761 Kept Mistress 58 Up they both jumped, and at it they went pell mell.
1820 Examiner No. 637. 403/1 Our..Orator went at it again, like a Titan refreshed.
1833 S. Smith Life & Writings Major Jack Downing lvii. 197 He..catched his cane and went at him.
1881 R. C. Praed Policy & Passion I. x. 204 I'm a plain-spoken man, and I go at a thing straight, without beating through the bush.
1887 P. Fendall Sex to Last I. i. x. 248 Selina went at her again for further information.
1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases (at cited word) A labourer enquired in the morning, ‘What be I to go at to-daay?’
1912 Fabrics, Fancy Goods & Notions Mar. 61/2 I took a sheet of paper and went at it with the result given below.
1970 T. Williams Let. 15 Jan. in Five O'Clock Angel (1991) 223 My gentleman friend from Georgia..goes at the booze like it was half an hour before the return of Prohibition.
1994 J. Lydon et al. Rotten (1995) ii. 13 Lots of failed pregnancies. My parents must have been going at it like rabbits.
2005 G. Blunt Blackfly Season (2006) xxvii. 223 When he doesn't fall down, the guy goes at him with the bat.
†2. intransitive. to go at the collar: (of an ox or horse) to move quickly. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1883 W. Wallace Let. 23 Jan. in K. Coates & W. R. Morrison My Dear Maggie (1991) 116 The oxen pricked up their ears and went at their collars with renewed energy.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer II. 221 The highly-conditioned horses went at their collars..and..rattled along.
 to go before ——
1. intransitive. To precede in time or order; to go ahead or in advance of (literal and figurative). Cf. before-go vb. (a) at before adv., prep., conj., and n. Compounds 3.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > preceding or following in order > precede or follow in order [verb (transitive)] > precede in order
to go before ——OE
precedea1552
fore-run1570
prevene1596
frontal1652
OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Corpus Cambr. 196) 24 June (2013) 124 Iohannes wæs se engel se ðe eode beforan Gode.
OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) i. iv. 33 Symble þa gyfa gaþ nu beforan ælcum weorce, þeah þe þa gyfa eac of þam æfterfiligendan weorce geweaxen & gemærsien.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 12205 Seint Dubris eoden [c1300 Otho ȝeode] biuoren..þe ærche-biscop of Lundene eode an his riht honden.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. i. 3 The wisdam of God goende beforn alle thingus [L. sapientiam Dei praecedentem], who enserchede?
a1425 Daily Work (Arun.) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 134 Goddis grace sterand gase bifore gode wille: & steres it til do þe gode, & leue þe ille.
?1521 J. Fisher Serm. agayn Luther sig. C.iv The workes yt gothe before faythe.
1629 H. Burton Babel No Bethel 6 The Councell..surpasseth..all that went before it.
1659 W. Hicks Ἀποκάλυψις Ἀποκάλυψεως sig. b Many that went before me on this Theme, did excel in true Piety, Learning, and Parts.
1731 J. Lewis Hist. Eng. Transl. of Bible in New Test. ii. 31 So the Reader might have a perfect Notation of this Edition, and wherin it differed from the Editions which went before it.
1780 T. Bell Standard of Spirit 366 The learned and judicious Boston, who in the study of the Hebrew accentuation, far outstripped all who went before him.
1821 Trial at Large of Her Majesty Caroline Amelia Elizabeth II. 184 What was his business to do on that journey, going before her royal highness? To order horses, and to pay for the horses.
1849 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 16 81/2 Pity 'tis these should pay for the bad men who have gone before them.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) III. xv. 277 The other two [propositions], as naturally going before the conclusion, they have styled the premises.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 150/2 At the church seven regionary acolytes with candles went before him in the procession to the altar.
1999 C. S. Keener Comm. Gospel of Matthew 346 They prided themselves on their knowledge of traditional interpretations and sayings of the wise who had gone before them.
2. intransitive. To take precedence over, surpass in rank or importance.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being better or superior > [verb (transitive)]
to go before ——OE
overlightlOE
preferc1395
precede1485
precess1529
to take the wall (of a person)?1562
outshine1605
to have the place1659
to take the road of1670
rank1841
OE Blickling Homilies 167 Sanctus Iohannes..gæþ beforan eallum oþrum witgan, & ealra oþerra heahfædera mægen he oferstigeþ on þæm apostolican gewealde.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 13212 To gan biforenn alde menn, Inn alle gode þæwess.
?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) iii. pr. viii. l. 2212 Yif þou coueitest by honour to gon by-fore oþer folk þou shalt defoule þi self by humblesse of axing.
1533 tr. Erasmus Enchiridion Militis Christiani xv. sig. O.ijv Thynke bearing of roume or rule to be this, not to excell & go before other men in habundaunce of rychesse, but to profyte al men as moche as is possyble.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. iv. 70 If she went before others..I haue seene as that Diamond of yours out-lusters many I haue beheld, I could not beleeue she excelled many. View more context for this quotation
1625 J. Robinson Observ. x. 83 Reason is that wherein man goes before all other earthly creatures.
1739 J. Gill Law establish'd by Gospel 37 Such as are believers in Christ, ought..to be careful..to go before others in good works.
1840 Ann. Nat. Hist. 4 396 In the natural sciences facts go before all things.
1893 F. Marion Crawford Don Orsino xix. 288 His friendship for the old count went before other considerations.
1906 A. MacLaren Expos. Holy Script. Deuteronomy 402 The deepest desire of a truly religious soul is for the felt nearness of God. That goes before all other blessings.
1999 B. C. Lategan in I. R. Kitzberger Personal Voice in Biblical Interpr. ix. 134 The unity in Christ goes before all other loyalties.
 to go behind ——
intransitive. To question or examine (something already accepted or determined); to look beyond. Cf. to go back 6 at Phrasal verbs 1.
ΚΠ
1824 P. Randolph Rep. Court of Appeals Virginia 2 381 In such cases, we must, of necessity, go behind the patent, to see if the entry was lawful.
1861 Congress. Globe Feb. 705/3 It is a thing settled, an award made..and therefore we cannot go behind it.
1888 R. A. King Leal Lass II. iv. 63 Marry May he must—this was a postulate he would not go behind.
1892 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 2 544 In such a case the Court will go behind the compromise in order to see the nature of the original debt.
1962 C. R. Mollenhoff Washington Cover-up i. 10 News management..can be controlled only by insisting on the public's right to go behind the statements distributed by the government agencies.
1974 V. Deloria Behind Trail Broken Treaties x. 223 The commission was empowered to go behind the treaties.
2003 J. Vincent Old Age 164 The skill of good sociology should be to enable us to go behind the stereotypes and see real people acting out their lives.
† to go beside ——
Obsolete.
intransitive. To pass by or over, to go past (so as to miss out). Also: to deviate from.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)]
fordita800
forheedc1275
forget1297
to let out ofa1300
spele1338
to go beside ——a1382
waivec1400
remiss?a1425
to go by ——?c1450
misknowledge?a1475
misknow1483
misken1494
to go besides ——1530
to let pass1530
unregard1545
unmind1562
overlook1570
mislippen1581
suspend1581
omit1589
blanch1605
to blow off1631
disregard1641
to pass with ——1641
to give (a person or thing) the go-by1654
prescind1654
nihilify1656
proscribe1680
unnotice1776
ignore1795
to close one's mind1797
cushion1818
to leave out in the cold1839
overslaugh1846
unheed1847
to write off1861
to look through ——1894
scrub1943
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > not do [verb (transitive)] > pass over or miss (a person or thing)
to go beside ——a1382
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (transitive)] > move past > on one side or to miss
to go beside ——a1382
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xix. 11 The glorie of hym is to go biside wicke thingys [a1425 L.V. to passe ouere wickid thingis; L. iniqua praetergredi].
a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 15 (MED) Þei tristen on riȝt of mannis lawe, and gone ofte beside þe soþe.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Kiiiiv And where it purposeth to go ouer the brygge, it gothe besyde & falleth in the dyche.
1557 R. Edgeworth Serm. very Fruitfull xviii. f. cclxxxx Gredy & hongrie for mony & lucre, thinking all that lost that goeth beside their berdes, or that they cannot get.
1570 T. Tymme tr. A. Marlorat Catholike & Eccles. Expos. Mathewe xx. 446/1 They go farre beside the marke, which being not content with Christ alone, seeke for this and that without Christ and his promises.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxviiii. vii. 336 Nothing went beside their hands, that was not too hot or too heavie.
a1677 T. Manton Sermons (1684) II. v. 635 The Stars keep their Course, and do not go beside the path God hath set them.
1798 Geraldina I. 39 He cannot bear to see the loaves and fishes go beside his family.
1819 A. Woodrooffe Hist. Michael Kemp 83 Mrs. Potter..envied every penny that went beside her.
† to go besides ——
Obsolete.
intransitive. To deviate from; to neglect, overlook. Cf. to go beside —— at Phrasal verbs 2.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)]
fordita800
forheedc1275
forget1297
to let out ofa1300
spele1338
to go beside ——a1382
waivec1400
remiss?a1425
to go by ——?c1450
misknowledge?a1475
misknow1483
misken1494
to go besides ——1530
to let pass1530
unregard1545
unmind1562
overlook1570
mislippen1581
suspend1581
omit1589
blanch1605
to blow off1631
disregard1641
to pass with ——1641
to give (a person or thing) the go-by1654
prescind1654
nihilify1656
proscribe1680
unnotice1776
ignore1795
to close one's mind1797
cushion1818
to leave out in the cold1839
overslaugh1846
unheed1847
to write off1861
to look through ——1894
scrub1943
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 571/1 I go besydes my purpose, je faulx a mon esme.
1592 P. Moffett Comm. Prouerbes Salomon xx. 170 He could not goe besides the word of God.
a1628 J. Preston Mysticall Match Christ & Church (1648) 101 He that said he would, and went not, went besides the reward.
1672 R. Baxter Sacrilegious Desertion of Holy Ministery Rebuked xi. 102 Is it not a shame to you that your worthiest Ministers should be fain to go besides their own judgement in Gods Worship to humour you?
1682 N. Crouch Admirable Curiosities 121 The Parson of Crondall..went besides his Text into an impertinent discourse in commendation of the Popes Articles.
 to go between ——
intransitive. To act as a mediator between; to reconcile. Cf. go-between n.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > bring to peace (strife or discord) [verb (transitive)] > mediate between
to go between ——lOE
mean1440
mediate1538
to build bridges1886
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough interpolation) anno 1066 Þa eodon gode men heom betwenen & sahtloden heom.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 332 Menyn, or goon be-twene ij partyes for a-corde, medio.
1480 Cronicles Eng. (Caxton) xxiii. sig. b4 Hir moder..went bitwene hir sones and hem made accorded with moche peyne.
1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie sig. Ciiijv The regente of France was faine to be sent for from beyond the Seas to set theim at one, and to go between them.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. iii. 261 I did goe betweene them as I said, but more then that he loued her. View more context for this quotation
1765 G. Colman in tr. Terence Comedies Andrian 19/2 He goes between the father and the son, and in some measure betrays both.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Black-foot A sort of match-maker; one who goes between a lover and his mistress, endeavouring to bring the fair one to compliance.
1871 W. Elwin in A. Pope Wks. (new ed.) VII. 8 In the altercations of Lord Oxford and Bolingbroke, the dean was the common friend who went between them.
1990 D. E. O'Brien Today's Handbk. Solving Bible Diffic. x. 391 The emphasis in this verse is on Christ as the one who mediates or goes between God and man.
2002 B. James Middleman vi. 108 Boris..was only a go-between but I'm due to become one of the kind of mainsters he went between.
 to go by ——
†1. intransitive. To neglect, overlook; to fail to notice or heed. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or heedless of [verb (transitive)]
atletc1200
forheedc1275
forget1297
lachesc1425
remiss1443
to go by ——?c1450
unregard1545
recklessc1560
to fling aside1587
disregard1641
unheed1847
the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)]
fordita800
forheedc1275
forget1297
to let out ofa1300
spele1338
to go beside ——a1382
waivec1400
remiss?a1425
to go by ——?c1450
misknowledge?a1475
misknow1483
misken1494
to go besides ——1530
to let pass1530
unregard1545
unmind1562
overlook1570
mislippen1581
suspend1581
omit1589
blanch1605
to blow off1631
disregard1641
to pass with ——1641
to give (a person or thing) the go-by1654
prescind1654
nihilify1656
proscribe1680
unnotice1776
ignore1795
to close one's mind1797
cushion1818
to leave out in the cold1839
overslaugh1846
unheed1847
to write off1861
to look through ——1894
scrub1943
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 7167 (MED) Þair ordure reule þai went bathe by, And leuyd our dishonestly.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. viii. 66 The messinger is nocht gone by myne eris [L. non..meas effugit nuntius aures].
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) viii. 56 O ignorant..pepil, gone by the path vaye of verteouse knaulage.
a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1592) 234 When you can goe by an offence, and..suffer trouble quietly, you haue a kinde of peace and ioy in your heart.
†2. intransitive. to go by the worse (also worst): to be defeated, to come out worst. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > defeat > be defeated [verb (intransitive)]
to have (also get) the worsec1275
leesec1300
to lick the dust, the earth1382
to get (also have) the waura1393
to go downa1400
to go away (also flee) with the worsea1413
to have the worsta1470
to go to (also unto) the worse1485
to go by the worse (also worst)1528
to have the overthrow1536
lose1548
tine1681
1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. bviii It was a thynge playnly acorst, That masse went thus by the worst, Havynge so many on his wynge.
1565 A. Golding tr. Caesar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia i. f. 23 To whom the Heduanes..had..gyuen battell: wherin going by the wors, they had receyued great domage.
1639 F. Robartes Gods Holy House ix. 63 As he [sc. Moses] lifted up his hands to God, Amalek went by the worst.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 904 In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse . View more context for this quotation
1767 London Mag. Feb. 66/1 The most judicious are seldom the most forward, active and busy..and are likely therefore to go by the worst in this skirmish.
3. intransitive. To pass (one's prime). Frequently in perfect tense. Now rare.
ΚΠ
1818 Sporting Mag. 1 295 Rainer..was considered rather gone by his day.
1900 29th Ann. Rep. Secretary State Hort. Society Michi. 1899 93 When an orchard has gone by its prime it can not be brought back into prime condition.
1924 Market Growers Jrnl. 1 Mar. 28/3 The dandelion crop very quickly goes by its prime.
1988 Field & Stream Nov. 39/2 Decent spread, but no height; gone by his prime, not a shooter.
4. intransitive. To use (something) as a basis for action, opinion, theory, etc. Cf. to go on —— 4 at Phrasal verbs 2, to go upon —— 5 at Phrasal verbs 2.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > attest, bear witness [verb (transitive)] > use as evidence
to go upon ——1762
to go on ——1817
to go by ——1830
1830 Periscope Aug. 528/1 Having nothing else to go by than the appearances after death, he was bound to suppose that the injury which had been inflicted had been the cause of the death.
1865 H. Wood Oswald Cray II. xiii. 148 He's as well as a body can be; leastways if this luncheon's anything to go by, which he have just eat.
1909 H. James Ambassadors (new ed.) Pref. xi One could only go by probabilities, but there was the advantage that the most general of the probabilities were virtual certainties.
1915 Watson's Mag. Oct. 341/1 Unless we go by the record, we are left to the folly of saying week after week, ‘You're a liar!’ and ‘you're another!’
1988 E. Abbey One Life at Time, Please 166 For the purpose of daily life,..I am willing to go by appearances.
2003 A. Notaro Back after Break vi. 56 The restaurant..was indeed the in place to be, if the noise level was anything to go by.
 to go for ——
1. intransitive.
a. To depart from a place in order to fetch; to fetch.
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the world > movement > transference > bringing > bring [verb (transitive)] > fetch
fetchc1000
fet1297
to go for ——c1405
get1594
to round up1873
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 481 He is wont for tymber for to go And dwellen atte graunge, a day or two.
1534 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge gathered oute of Terence f. 124v I knowe wel that he wol be here with you anone together with the messanger that wente for hym.
1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido iii. i. sig. C4 Anna, good sister Anna, go for him.
1633 Match at Mid-night i. sig. B3v Y'are best bee gone sirrah: I am going for the Constable.
1657 J. Davies tr. H. D'Urfé Astrea I. 344 He desired them to stay a little, till he went for the Inke.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 85 The Servant went for the Ale.
1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal I. ii. vi. 146 While the porter went for him [sc. the parish constable], my mistress..stood trembling.
1832 Metropolitan Jan. 86 I offered to go for assistance.
1873 L. M. Alcott Work iii. 54 Why the devil somebody didn't go for a doctor?
1923 J. Miner Jack Miner & Birds xv. 61 He went for his bird dog, thus giving the drake nearly an hour to make his escape.
1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon vi. 110 Crutchley, you'd better go for the police.
2005 G. M. Flynn Currach Race & Other Stories iii. 20 If I leave her here while I'm going for help she will drown herself.
†b. To set out or leave for (a destination). Obsolete.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart from or leave [verb (transitive)] > set out on (a journey, etc.) > set out for
to go for ——1579
1579 J. Frampton tr. B. de Escalante Disc. Nauigation x. f. 28 The Portingales doe vse the like [galleries] now in their galleons & ships that go for the India.
1616 J. Chamberlain Let. 12 Oct. in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) I. 428 The Lord Roos is gone for Spain.
1689 H. Pitman Relation Great Sufferings 28 When they had shared her Cargo, they parted Companies, the French with their shares went for Petty Guavers, in the Grand Gustaphus.
1704 Duke of Marlborough Let. 9 Mar. (1845) I. 244 I may have the satisfaction of embracing you before I go for Holland.
1726 Dublin Jrnl. 12 Mar. 196/1 On Sunday last Dean Swift went for London.
1807 J. Milner Martyrs iii. ii. 124 At length having left Rome, we went for Bavaria.
1837 United Service Jrnl. Nov. 294 We who were resolved to go for India, used our endeavour to get into the Gulf of Amapalla.
c. To depart for the purposes of becoming. Esp. in to go for a soldier (also sailor): to leave for war as a soldier or sailor; to leave and become a soldier or sailor.
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1653 C. Mauger True Advancem. of French Tongue 127 For he is gone for a Souldier, say not, il est party pour un soldat; but, il est allé á la guerre.
1657 True Relation Life J. Naylor 5 His Father being a Sow-gelder, brought up his Son James to the same Trade, who us'd it a long while, untill the late wars, at which time he went for a Souldier.
1740 tr. C. de F. de Mouhy Fortunate Country Maid I. 11 He shall hear Reason; or, Wounds, I'll go for a Soldier.
1776 Gentleman's Mag. June 301/2 Was it for this I passed so many sleepless nights and miserable days when you were gone for a soldier?
1830 Polar Star 2 79/1 Dick Suds, who went for a sailor last Lammas-fair twelvemonth.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxxi. 110 He walked along at a brisk pace, big with great thoughts of going for a soldier and dying in some foreign country.
1863 All Year Round 17 Oct. 172/1 I mean to go for a governess, and then I shall cost mamma nothing.
1919 C. F. Saunders With Flowers & Trees in Calif. ix. 185 Sturdy peasant stock who went for soldiers and sailors.
1987 S. Elkin Rabbi of Ludd iii. 43 He'd have been too old to go for a soldier.
2000 Times 27 Dec. 23/3 If the rules against discrimination on grounds of disability and age come in, I shall be off to the recruiting office to go for a soldier again.
d. To set out on, undertake, engage in (a specified activity).
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1672 tr. Mem. Henrietta Silvia Moliere 281 This young Virgin and I went for a walk together at some certain times.
1792 Fanny I. iii. 166 Sir John was gone for a ride, and she had taken up a book.
1872 Net 1 Mar. 41 On Saturday the orphans went for a picnic on Table Mountain.
1914 Cosmopolitan Dec. 22 Maud was not averse to going for a row with two handsome..young men.
1981 D. Adams et al. Not 1982 114 I have gone for a piss. I'll be back in a couple of minutes.
2010 Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) Feb. 168/2 I used to comfort-eat chocolate when I was down. Now I go for a run.
e. Originally U.S. To reach for (something, esp. a weapon) quickly or suddenly.
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1892 Southeastern Reporter 10 652 Whether the deceased first went for the pistol.., or whether defendant first went for his gun.
1906 San Antonio (Texas) Daily Light 16 Nov. 9/5 Martinez made a pass at him and Gonzales went for his knife.
1977 M. Torres in R. P. Rettig et al. Manny i. 21/1 One night in a real heavy rumble Tommy went for his chain and ripped the hell out of his balls.
1993 Independent (Nexis) 9 May 85 Ray went for the handle but after several minutes the thing still refused to budge.
2014 J. Vandersteen White Knight Syndrome xxxiii. 119 Then Ty made his move and went for the shotgun. I saw him coming and smashed him in the throat.
2. intransitive.
a. To have as one's aim; to aim at; to try for; to concentrate on securing or attaining.
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the mind > will > intention > intend [verb (transitive)] > have as purpose or object
followeOE
studylOE
turna1200
pursuea1382
purposec1384
to shoot atc1407
ensue1483
proponea1500
studyc1503
prick1545
tread1551
suit1560
to go for ——1568
to set (up) one's rest1572
expect1578
propose1584
propound1596
aima1616
scope1668
to set up1691
aim1821
to go in for1835
to be out for1887
to be flat out for1930
target1966
shoot1967
the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > have liking for [verb (transitive)] > be enamoured of or enthusiastic about
to go for ——1568
to be shook on1888
to go nap on1918
1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) 47 Quha suld my dullit spreitis raiss, Sen for no lufe my lady gaiss?
1641 H. Peacham Worth of Peny 32 Some go for recreations which trouble..the mind more then the hardest study, as Chesse.
1790 By-stander 288 It is a pity Captain Parslowe did not go for twenty thousand pounds, for through such a judge and such a jury he would have received every halfpenny of it.
1800 A. Addison Rep. Cases Pennsylvania 23 The present form of action..goes only for the money supposed to have been actually received.
1864 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 25 ii. 445 Their breeders go for open wool as much as possible.
1877 Scribner's Monthly 15 7/1 Each dog selected his bird, and went for it steadily.
1981 N.Y. Mag. 16 Feb. 74/3 The film goes for laughs rather than physical terror.
1987 M. C. Brau in R. P. Bissell Stretch on River 245 He..decided to go for his mate's and then his pilot's license.
2005 A. T. Soffee Nerd Girl rocks Paradise City 3 Mama buries her face in her hands and shrieks. Just the effect I was going for.
b. colloquial. To make an attack on, assault; to abuse verbally.
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society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)]
greetc893
overfallOE
riseOE
assail?c1225
to lay on or upon?c1225
onseekc1275
to set on ——c1290
infighta1300
saila1300
to go upon ——c1300
to turn one's handc1325
lashc1330
annoyc1380
impugnc1384
offendc1385
to fall on ——a1387
sault1387
affrayc1390
to set upon ——1390
to fall upon ——a1398
to lay at?a1400
semblea1400
assayc1400
havec1400
aset1413
oppressa1425
attachc1425
to set at ——c1430
fraya1440
fray1465
oppugn?a1475
sayc1475
envaye1477
pursue1488
envahisshe1489
assaulta1500
to lay to, untoa1500
requirea1500
enterprise?1510
invade1513
assemblec1515
expugn1530
to fare on1535
to fall into ——1550
mount1568
attack?1576
affront1579
invest1598
canvass1599
to take arms1604
attempt1605
to make force at, to, upon1607
salute1609
offence1614
strikea1616
to give a lift at1622
to get at ——1650
insult1697
to walk into ——1794
to go in at1812
to go for ——1838
to light on ——1842
strafe1915
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)]
assail?c1225
to set on ——c1290
saila1300
to turn one's handc1325
lashc1330
to set against ——c1330
impugnc1384
offendc1385
weighc1386
checka1400
to lay at?a1400
havec1400
to set at ——c1430
fraya1440
rehetea1450
besail1460
fray1465
tuilyie1487
assaulta1500
enterprise?1510
invade1513
sturt1513
attempt1546
lay1580
tilt1589
to fall aboard——1593
yoke1596
to let into1598
to fall foul1602
attack1655
do1780
to go in at1812
to pitch into ——1823
tackle1828
vampire1832
bushwhack1837
to go for ——1838
take1864
pile1867
volcano1867
to set about ——1879
vampirize1888
to get stuck into1910
to take to ——1911
weigh1941
rugby-tackle1967
rugger-tackle1967
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > attack (of animal)
to venture on (also uponc1528
bait1570
to go at ——1675
tack1720
to go for ——1838
sick1845
aggress1882
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > attack with hostile words or measures
fangc1320
hurtlec1374
impugnc1384
weighc1386
to fall upon ——a1398
to start on ——a1398
oppugn?1435
to lay to, untoa1500
onseta1522
wipe1523
to set against ——1542
to fall aboard——1593
aggress1596
to fall foul1602
attack1613
appugn1615
to set upon ——1639
to fall on ——1641
to lay home, hard, hardly to1650
tack1720
bombard1766
savage1796
to pitch into ——1823
to begin upon a personc1825
bulldog1842
to down on (also upon)a1848
to set at ——1849
to start on ——a1851
to start in on1859
set on at or to1862
to let into1872
to go for ——1890
swash1890
slog1891
to get at ——1893
tee1955
1838 Congr. Globe Apr. App. 312/1 I say that it is a gross, rank, palpable fraud! And I go for the fraud!
1865 J. W. Barber & H. Howe Loyal West in Times of Rebellion 275 The railroaders ambushed themselves, and, as he approached, they went for him with a terrific whoop.
1880 Sat. Rev. 18 Sept. 369/2 Every now and then Mr. Mercer goes for the citizens with a bowie.
1890 Illustr. London News 16 Aug. 194/2 A couple of novelists..have ‘gone for’ the critics.
1904 Amer. Bee Jrnl. 13 Oct. 701 The bees got mad, and still madder, and went for us in full force.
1974 R. Durgnat Jean Renoir xliii. 245 Devers..goes for him with a knife.
2004 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 6 May 22 The press went for him. In 24 hours they had done him huge damage.
c. colloquial (originally U.S.). to go for it: to put all one's efforts into achieving a specified end; to try one's hardest, to do one's utmost; to make an attempt. Frequently imperative in go for it!, used as an exhortation or to express encouragement or support.
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1908 Autocar 18 July 108/1 Mr. Edge would never have..[driven] in a ‘put up job’;..I had every reason to believe that the two champions were really going for it all out.
1976 Skiing Sept. 47/2 Remember, a little air, concentration, and practice—then go for it!
1987 Poetry Rev. Apr. 66/1 ‘Keep writing, keep submitting, keep a positive attitude.’ In a word, Go for it!
1992 Ebony Mar. 80/2 At first we were a bit hesitant to explore different directions... We shook off all those cares and just went for it.
2003 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 23 Nov. vi. 1/4 If you have any desire to be a teacher, go for it.
d. to go for broke: see broke adj. 3b.
3. intransitive.
a. To amount to or count for (something, nothing, little, etc.).
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > be valued at [verb (transitive)]
to go for ——1574
value1577
inventory1902
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > be equivalent to
quitc1375
countervailc1380
containa1387
value1561
to go for ——1574
countervalue1581
weigh1583
avail1598
reanswer1598
commeasure1615
imply1634
equivalence1646
equivale1659
1574 St. Avstens Manuell in Certaine Prayers S. Augustines Medit. sig. Nviij He that cares not to liue for thee Lorde, is nothing and goeth for nought.
1679 W. Penn Addr. Protestants ii. sig. M2 This sincere Confession..'twas enough then for a Miracle and Salvation, too, but it goes for little or nothing now.
1688 Bp. G. Burnet Three Lett. State of Italy 186 The oaths..went for nothing, but matters of form.
1711 J. Oldmixon Hist. Addresses II. 223 They say they not; which does not go for much with me.
1791 J. Ranby Observ. Evid. Bill abolishing Slave Trade 32 Such general censure goes for little or nothing.
1820 Examiner No. 655. 690/1 His testimony would go for nothing.
1885 E. Lynn Linton Autobiogr. Christopher Kirkland III. vii. 240 She was pretty too; and that went for something.
1905 M. E. Braddon Rose of Life xxix. 325 Not before the regatta, if my influence goes for anything.
1995 D. F. Rettie Our National Park Syst. ix. 179 A heap of honest effort went for nothing.
b. To pass for, be taken for (something one is not).
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. iii. sig. C4v Since she goes for a woman.
1598 R. S. tr. Amorous Contention Phillis & Flora in G. Chapman Ouids Banquet of Sence sig. H False goes for true, for honny gall.
1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 150 Faith before temptation hath much heterogeneal stuffe that cleaves to it, and goes for faith.
1692 J. Locke Some Considerations Lowering Interest 21 Many who go for English Merchants, are but Dutch Factors, and Trade for others in their own Names.
1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 155 There was in the House, where I Lodg'd, a North Country Woman that went for a Gentlewoman.
1852 Punch May 177/2 Disraly goes for a Littery Man, but praps he aint one of the Reglar Hands.
1885 B. F. Tefft Evol. & Christianity iii. iii. 184 Educated men..soon learn how small a quantity of what goes for science is real knowledge.
1900 Med. Fortn. 1 Jan. 1 The swagger of assurance goes for knowledge with these iconoclasts.
1957 A. Wilson Bit off Map & Other Stories 1 I'm well made all right. I could go for a model if I wanted.
1980 T. R. Kennedy You gotta deal with It 166 Her daughter Mayola and I become so close that we went for sisters.
2005 K. Edlin & M. Kefalas Promises I can Keep (2011) iv. 133 A pseudo-marriage..where the couple ‘goes for’ husband and wife.
4. intransitive. To advocate or be in favour of; to be enthusiastic about; to like, care for. Also: to choose, opt for, decide on. Cf. to go in for at Phrasal verbs 1.
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1835 P. Hone Diary 13 Nov. (1889) I. 172 Daniel Webster's claim is incomparably stronger than that of either of the other candidates. He is entitled to the people's votes... I go, therefore, for Webster.
1853 J. Wakeman Mysterious Parchment ix. 156 ‘I thought you was a great advocate for the observance of law’... ‘Well, I do go for law.’
1872 F. Smith Canary (ed. 3) vii. 49 Agnes goes for elegance of figure.
1930 Amer. Mercury Dec. 456/1 I go for that gee. He's a righto.
1940 T. H. Harrisson & C. H. Madge War begins at Home ix. 241 Comedy songs that are anti-Hitler the public are at first inclined to go for.
1950 A. Baron There's No Home 65 I could go for you in a big way, kid.
1962 Listener 8 Nov. 759/1 I myself don't go at all for that heartiness, that matey stuff..which figures so largely in mountaineering books.
2001 Hull Daily Mail (Electronic ed.) 12 Dec. We went for the deep-fried calamari, served with tartar sauce.
2009 Vanity Fair Jan. 106 Country fans don't go for all that sassy-trampy nonsense.
5. intransitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). To be equally valid for or applicable to. Chiefly in that goes for: that applies to; that is true of.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [verb (transitive)] > apply
apply?a1425
to go for ——1914
1914 Rotarian Dec. 62/2 ‘Elbert expects that every man each day will do his best’—and that goes for the girls too!
1923 C. E. Mulford Black Buttes iii. 36 In case nobody ever told you to go to hell before, I'm tellin' you now. That goes for the town an' everybody in it.
1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas v. 63 I don't care if Pittsburgh chokes. And that goes for Cincinnati, too.
1941 Punch 2 July p. v/2 (advt.) If you require anything that can possibly be connected with wire or wire-ropes (and this goes for manila and hemp ropes and canvas, too), British Ropes Ltd. can supply you.
1983 R. Mason Chickenhawk (1984) xi. 323 ‘I don't want to change anything I'm doing at this stage of the game.’ ‘That goes for me, too,’ said Cannon.
2007 I. McDonald Brasyl 5 She had never had a soundman who wasn't a laconic bastard, and that went for soundwomen too.
6. intransitive. colloquial. In the progressive. To be favourable or advantageous to. Chiefly in to have (something) going for one: to have (something) in one's favour.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > promise, ground of hope > promise, encourage expectation [verb (intransitive)]
to have some show1556
promisea1616
frame1863
to have (something) going for one1948
1948 Billboard 27 Nov. 72/2 He not only visits the shows where he has something going for him but also countless others where he doesn't.
1967 Melody Maker 29 July 6/7 But his swing is ridiculous. He's got everything going for him.
1985 Backpacker Nov. 6/1 The kind of Saturday that has nothing going for it except the fact that it won't last forever.
2000 W. Self How Dead Live (2001) iv. 104 The only things I had going for me were a big, blowsy body, a dirty imagination and a talent for back talk.
 to go from ——
intransitive. To abandon, withdraw from; to renege, go back on. Frequently in to go from one's word. Now archaic and rare.
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?1521 J. Fisher Serm. agayn Luther sig. D.iiv In the latter dayes of ye chirche some shall go from ye true faythe.
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. f. ccxxvii/2 The Erle wente from his promyse that he had made to his bayly.
1581 T. Lupton 2nd Pt. Too Good to be True sig. Aa.iijv I trust you will not go from your grant.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Macc. ii. 22 We will not hearken to the kings words, to goe from our religion, either on the right hand, or the left. View more context for this quotation
1657 J. Bramhall Castigations Mr. Hobbes 154 He [sc. God] cannot change his own decrees, nor go from his promise.
1729 N. Tindal tr. P. Rapin de Thoyras Hist. Eng. IX. xvii. 17 She might have a pretense to go from her Word.
1862 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip II. ix. 190 Good heavens!.. You don't mean to say that you intend to go from your word.
1888 F. Barrett Lady Biddy Fane III. liv. 104 They had given their promise to do so, and would not go from their word.
1932 E. Monsen & A. H. Smith tr. S. Sturluson Heimskringla vii. 165 I will not go from the faith I have had before, and my kinsmen before me.
 to go into ——
1. intransitive.
a. To pass into (a specified state or condition); to begin, start, enter into.See also to go into exile at exile n.1 1b(b), to go into labour at labour n. 8a, to go into overdrive at overdrive n. 1b, to go into remission at remission n. 5b.
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Jer. xx. 6 Þou..shul gon in to caitifte, & in to babiloyne þou shalt come.
?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) i. pr. iv. l. 339 Þe Iustise regal hadde sumtyme demed hem boþe to go in to exil.
1534 W. Marshall tr. Erasmus Playne & Godly Expos. Commune Crede f. 171 v It is gone into a commune custome [L. in consuetudinem abiit] that they doo sell water mengled with brymstone or lee in stede of wyne.
1540 R. Taverner Epist. & Gospelles Easter tyll Aduent f. viij.v He..suffereth them to be deuoured wyth the wolfe, and fynally to go into eternall damnation.
1632 T. Reeve Churches Hazard sig. A4 He went though he knew it were to goe into banishment.
1654 T. Fuller Ephemeris Parliamentaria 203 To agree of the measure of Tonnage before the ships go into service.
a1777 S. Foote Capuchin (1778) i. 103 I might have gone into keeping.
1845 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 6 ii. 301 Expensive improvements have been already gone into.
1845 Ld. Houghton Let. 26 June in T. W. Reid Life Ld. Houghton (1890) I. viii. 356 The Times has gone into open opposition to the Government on all points except foreign policy.
1898 Athenæum 23 Apr. 537/2 ‘The Marchioness against the County’, is just going into its third edition.
1963 Observer 1 Dec. 5/4 His wife went into labour.
1967 Billboard 11 Nov. 12 Show business didn't really appeal to him, so he got out and went into other things.
1989 New Yorker 18 Sept. 58/3 Estonian partisans..went into hiding in the forests.
2006 K. Scott Brunettes strike Back (2007) 33 I'm pretty sure my brain went into emergency shutdown.
b. To pass into (a state of strong emotion); to break into a fit of (rage, hysterics, etc.).See also to go into raptures at rapture n. 1a.
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the mind > emotion > [verb (transitive)] > pass into (emotions)
to go into ——1664
1664 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Wks. lxxiii. 564 Others who have gone into divers head-long Griefs of Contractures.
1677 Lady Chaworth Let. in Hist. MSS Comm.: 12th Rep.: App. Pt. V (1889) 41 in Parl. Papers (C. 5889–II) XLIV. 393 Lord Worcester's lady is gone almost into a mopishnesse with malancolly.
1786 A. M. Bennett Juvenile Indiscretions I. xi. 181 The rage of tragedy seized every heart; Mrs. Napper wrung her hands; Miss Napper went into hysterics.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 41 The King..went into a rage with Saxton.
1889 Temple Bar Dec. 533 The man..who went into ecstasies at discovering that Cape Breton was an island.
1901 Child Life 15 July 163/1 Bobby Todd gazed intently and then went into peals of laughter.
1975 L. Maxwell Happy Path 44 If you want to go into a temper tantrum, go right ahead.
2007 C. O'Connell Elephant's Secret Sense vii. 98 They went into hysterics when I told them I was collecting elephant dung.
2. intransitive. To enter or take up as a profession or occupation.See also to go into the church at church n.1 6b, to go into Parliament at parliament n.1 Phrases.
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society > occupation and work > working > career > have career [verb (transitive)] > take up a profession
to go into ——a1400
turn1667
embrace1768
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 23048 (MED) Þe gode..bisieden hem to pleisen hym And wenten into religioun.
1538 T. Gybson Actes & Decrees Byshopes of Rome sig. B.ii Also a woman yt is spoused to her husband may departe from hym & go into Religion.
1659 tr. J. Nouet Answer Provinciall Lett. published by Jansenists 29 Many were obliged to go into [Fr. entrer en] Religious Orders, because in them one lives with more safety, then in the world.
1677 G. Miege New Dict. French & Eng. i. sig. *Xv/1 He went into the Army, with a resolution to come off with glory or die.
1795 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XIV. 400 Few go into the army. The greatest part apply themselves to husbandry, to the salmon fishing, or a seafaring life.
1831 Duke of Wellington in Blackwood's Mag. 135 267/2 I should be very sorry to go into any Cabinet of which he is not a member.
1841 Fraser's Mag. 23 15 The young divine goes into the church.
1878 Scribner's Monthly 16 860/2 Hicks naturally went into law.
1890 Sat. Rev. 13 Sept. 320/1 The American gentleman seldom or never goes into politics.
1940 D. Thomas Let. 27 Dec. (1987) 469 I was going to go into the army, but the Medical Board rejected me at the last moment.
1976 W. J. Burley Wycliffe & Schoolgirls iii. 67 She was a staff nurse..and chucked up her job to go into private nursing.
2003 Times 16 Dec. 31/1 I went into teaching as a mature student in the early seventies.
3. intransitive. To agree with, accede to, share (a statement, opinion, etc.). Now rare.
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the mind > language > statement > assent > [verb (transitive)]
cordc1380
to give handsa1425
to fall to ——a1450
agree1472
to go into ——1540
astipulate1548
subscribe1560
seal1579
suffragate1606
give1621
assent1637
homologate1644
to take up with1673
affirmative1775
chorus1836
yea-say1887
yes1915
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus iii. iii. sig. Piii Surely thou dost constrayne me to go in to [L. ire in] thy sentence to be of the mynde thou arte, or to thynke thy reson good, or to thynke as thou thinkest.
1576 T. Rogers Philos. Disc.: Anat. Minde ii. xvi. f. 106 The Senators pondring his wordes, dyd not so muche, as in countenance contrary him, but wyllingly went into his opinion.
a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. vi. 250 In that great plague, which happened among the Romans, in the time of Tullus Hostilius, they all of them went into this opinion:..That there was but one Remedie, for those that were sicke.
1713 J. Addison Cato ii. i. 27 Cato, we all go into your Opinion.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 263 All these schemes settled in a proposition, into which the King went.
1762 J. Macpherson Fingal Pref. sig. a2 Cuchullin, of himself willing to fight, went into the opinion of Calmar.
1874 Wesleyan-Methodist Mag. June 485 I went into the views and sympathized with the feelings of my friend.
1902 Hawaiian Investig. Part 2: Testimony (U.S. Congr. Senate Comm. Pacific Islands & Porto Rico) 390 There was an organization started..which I joined, and went into the same opinion as they had, that they could take up these lands under the American land laws.
4. intransitive. To join or take part in; to undertake.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > undertaking > undertake [verb (transitive)]
underfoc893
fandOE
onfangOE
undernimc1000
takec1175
to take tillc1175
to take toa1250
underfongc1330
undertakea1340
to take in (also on) handa1350
undertakec1385
attamec1386
to take in (also on) handc1390
embrace1393
emprisec1410
to put to one's hand (also hands)c1410
to go upon ——c1450
enterprise?1473
to set (one's) hand to1477
go?a1500
accept1524
assume1530
to hent in (also upon) handc1540
to swallow up1544
to take to task1546
to go into ——?1548
to set in hand1548
to fare about1563
entertain1569
undergo1606
to set about ——1611
to take up1660
to come at ——1901
?1548 Ld. Berners tr. D. de San Pedro Castell of Loue sig. M.i He went in to warre agaynst the Troyans.
1650 J. Burroughs Moses his Choice (new ed.) xxvi. 326 To go into company, and eat, and drink, and laugh, and get money; these are the things that are but for a season.
1688 Bp. G. Burnet Three Lett. State of Italy 11 Those who are discontented do naturally go into every new thing that..promises relief.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 35 When the war broke out in England, the Scots had a great mind to go into it.
1755 A. Gordon Hist. Peter Great I. iv. 154 It was not so surprising a matter, that the Russian Generals went into so dishonourable a treaty.
1781 Town & Countrty Mag. Apr. 186/1 It would be well for the business of the world, if young men would stay longer before they went into it.
1861 Temple Bar 1 270 He had gone largely into government contracts.
1872 C. M. Yonge Cameos cxi, in Monthly Packet Aug. 125 He went eagerly into the compact.
1967 Listener 16 Mar. 378/3 Whether or not we go into the Common Market now, we shall also be forced..to look to the extension of the Community and to its role in the overall context of world politics.
1996 J. Bannister No Birds Sing 215 He'd gone into this knowing he could get thumped.
5. intransitive. To dress in or adopt (a particular type or style of clothing, esp. mourning). Frequently in to go into mourning adv. at mourning n.1 Phrases. Now chiefly historical.
ΚΠ
1654 F. G. tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Artamenes III. v. i. 73 News was brought, that the Prince Mexaris was dead of his wounds and sorrows, so that the Court went into mourning, though his death did not much trouble us.
1666 S. Pepys Diary 15 Oct. (1972) VII. 325 She tells me the ladies are to go into a new fashion shortly.
1699 J. Stevens tr. B. Varen de Soto Suppl. 90 in tr. J. de Mariana Gen. Hist. Spain Upon this News his Majesty Commanded the publick Rejoicing to cease, the Court to go into Black.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 64. ¶1 When it is the Fashion to go into Mourning.
1736 R. Brookes tr. J.-B. Du Halde et al. Gen. Hist. China III. 144 He immediately threw off his coloured Habit, and went into Mourning.
1862 Temple Bar 4 554 She..shocked Mrs. Grundy by refusing to go into full mourning.
1874 J. De Mille Living Link xvi. 56/2 I went into half-mourning as soon as I could.
1905 Cosmopolitan Mag. Dec. 180/1 His mother had the unalterable conviction that boys did not go into long trousers until they were fourteen.
1998 Patchwork & Quilting Aug. 14/1 These ‘widow's weeds’ were worn for many months after the death before she went into ‘half mourning’ for several more months, relieving the black with perhaps a white collar or blouse.
6. intransitive. To examine or discuss minutely; to investigate.See also to go into detail at detail n. 1a.
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the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > discuss (a topic)
talka1387
rolla1413
descant?1532
to speak to ——1610
to speak unto ——1639
to go into ——1697
cuff1746
to speak on ——1819
tongue1841
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > become specific [verb (intransitive)] > come to particulars > go into detail
particulate1596
particularize1601
intrinsicate1603
specialize1613
to go into ——1697
to dot the i's (and cross the t's)1820
1697 J. Norris Acct. Reason & Faith ix. 301 Those abler hands which have gone into the Detail of the Controversie, and undertaken the particular defence of the Christian Mysteries.
1714 J. Quincy tr. R. Carr Medicinal Epist. xvii. 151 I am forced to go into Particulars, and singly recount, in what Cases it is proper to eat Suppers, and when not.
1788 R. Burns Let. 1 Oct. (2001) I. 327 I dare not go into the particular beauties of the two last paragraphs, but they are admirably fine, & truly Ossianic.
1820 Examiner No. 616. 71/2 It was not necessary for him to go into the character, public and private, of the great statesman.
1879 M. J. Guest Lect. Hist. Eng. xvii. 161 We cannot of course go into the history of these wars.
1930 Punch 26 Feb. 237/1 I really have not time to go into the whole story now.
1986 M. Forster Private Papers 5 I suffered severe emotional deprivation... It does not bear going into, not here.
1997 W. Self Great Apes (1998) ix. 146 You're not going to go into all of that again, are you?
7. intransitive. Originally and chiefly Boxing. To attack or assail vigorously. Also figurative. Now rare.
ΚΠ
1811 Sporting Mag. 37 100 Molineux..went into Crib pell mell.
1840 H. J. Conway Battle of Stillwater in America's Lost Plays (1941) XIV. 125 I warn't going to be pounded into jelly for nothin', so I went into 'em like a chirping squirrel into a stone fence.
1882 T. H. Sayre Our Minister (MS) iii. 28 You surprised me from the way you went into the refreshments.
1909 M. Franklin Some Everyday Folk & Dawn vi. 63 He had the lawyer feller welted off of the coach an' was goin' into him right an' left.
1971 Ebony Mar. 141 A fighter is one who leads, one who goes into his opponent and slugs it out with him until somebody falls.
 to go off ——
†1. intransitive. To leave (a place), esp. with the intention of never returning. Obsolete (historical in later use).
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away from [verb (transitive)]
leaveeOE
beleavea1250
devoidc1325
voidc1330
roomc1400
wagc1400
departa1425
refusea1425
avoid1447
ishc1450
remove1459
absent1488
part1496
refrain1534
to turn the backc1540
quita1568
apart1574
shrink1594
to fall from ——1600
to draw away1616
to go off ——a1630
shifta1642
untenant1795
evacuate1809
exit1830
stash1888
split1956
a1630 D. Hume Hist. Houses Douglas & Angus (1644) 370 The court, envying even this small contentment to him, commanded the Constable also to goe off the Countrey.
1662 A. Petrie Compend. Hist. Catholick Church iii. iv. 521 On November. 24. the Commissioners of the Church being..enformed, that they were to be charged to go off the town.
1734 S. Carolina Gaz. 18 Jan. 4/1 Whereas Benjamin Savage intends to go off this Province in April next, desires all Persons that are Indebted to him..to discharge their..Debts by the first of March.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering (1819) III. 164 All dead but Gypsey Gab, and he would go off the country for a spill of money.
†2. intransitive. To shirk; to fail to fulfil. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > avoid or shun > evade (responsibility or obligation)
feignc1300
quita1425
waivec1440
to shift off1577
shift?1611
balk1631
to go off ——1749
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xvii. iii. 101 Did I ever go off any Bargain when I had promised? View more context for this quotation
3. intransitive. To cease to like, take an interest in, or have an appetite for. Now also: to abstain from.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > [verb (transitive)]
mislikea1225
to like illa1350
to have no fancy with1465
mislovec1485
abominec1500
not to look ata1529
to have no will of, (also in)1548
misaffect1586
to have or take a stitch againsta1591
dislike1593
to take (a) toy to (also at)1598
disfavour1599
disgust1601
disaffect1609
mistaste1613
disrelisha1616
dispalate1630
abominate1652
disfancy1657
to have it in for1825
to have a down on1835
to sour on1862
to go off ——1877
derry1896
1877 Sunday Mag. 6 361/2 She's gone off her food long since, and she's off her work now.
1902 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 May 1077/1 According to the mother's statement, the baby was weaned at 13 months, and about two months later she ‘went off her food and began to lose flesh’.
1923 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 14 Nov. in Yours, Plum (1990) i. 29 It's a funny thing, I have rather gone off golf recently.
1965 M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate iii. 76 I simply don't feel anything for him any more. In fact, I've gone off him.
1982 New Scientist 10 June 686 Even the CEGB said that it would consider contributing to a trust fund, although now seems to be going off the idea.
2012 C. Jakab Culture Rebel 56 Have you ever tried going off sugar for a month?
 to go on ——
†1. intransitive. To enter on or take up (a subject) for discussion. Also: to begin, undertake (an action). Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > undertake [verb (transitive)] > tackle or proceed to deal with
entreat?a1450
overtakea1500
to go on ——1508
take1523
to go about ——?1533
to set upon ——1555
fall1589
to turn one's hand1628
to take to task1649
tackle1847
to take on1898
1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. cc.iv This holy prophete gooth shortely on all these, in the same ordre as we haue rehersed to you.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) ii. i. 123 This Action I now goe on, Is for my better grace. View more context for this quotation
2. intransitive.
a. To approach (a certain age, time, or point in time). Chiefly (now only) in the progressive, as going on ——, to be going on ——. Cf. sense 47, to go on 7 at Phrasal verbs 1, to go upon —— 3 at Phrasal verbs 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [verb (transitive)] > approach an age
to go on ——1567
touch1851
push1869
crowd1943
squeeze1976
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > future [verb (transitive)] > approach a time
to go upon ——1567
to go on ——1798
1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 139 For goinge on the .xvi. yere of her age, albeit her doinges were not voied of diuerse argumentes of bad disposicion.
1568 W. Fulwood Enimie Idlenesse iii. f. 105 It is already three monthes ago, and now at thys present going on the fourth, synce we receiued any Letters from thee.
1577 M. Hanmer tr. Socrates Scholasticus vii. ii, in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. 377 When the Emperour Theodosius went on the eyght yeare of his age.
1670 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Latina 226 I am going on my fourscore and four. Quartum annum ago & octogesimum.
1798 C. Smith Young Philosopher III. 160 Scarce any body have come to see her here, though she have been here going on three weeks.
1876 T. E. Brown Doctor 17 The only child,..And just about goin' on twenty-one.
1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad xx. 193 Been here going on two years.
1924 C. C. O'Connor Case of Galileo viii. 45 He..appealed to his judges to consider his age (he was going on seventy).
1940 Boys' Life July 4/1 I'm eighteen, going on nineteen, now.
1998 R. L. Ruiz Guiseppe Rocco iii. 220 I've been working at that store going on ten years now.
b. colloquial (somewhat humorous) (to be) (a specified age) going on (another age): to be a particular age but wish to be, behave, or feel like a much older or younger person (cf. 2a.).
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1942 Story Jan. 66/2 Oh, yes, Sue is nearly sixteen now..going on ninety, you know.
1968 N.Y. Times 27 Feb. i. 5/2 ‘I'm the oldest 19-year old in the..Marine Corps,’ said one young man as he got up stiffly... ‘Nineteen going on ninety.’
1999 G. Dawson Simmer all Night 70 Shame washed through her. You are twenty going on two, Chrissy Delaney. How childish could she be?
2003 J. Mitchell Dark Shade of Justice xx. 109 Just look at me now. A real winner. Gone to hell. Twenty-six going on sixty-five.
†3. intransitive. Of a judicial assembly or authority: to examine judicially or pass verdict on; = to go upon —— at Phrasal verbs 2. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > trying or hearing of cause > try or hear cause [verb (transitive)] > examine judicially
examinec1419
examec1480
depose1562
to go on ——a1602
question1620
a1602 W. Perkins Disc. Witchcraft (1608) vii. 209 The grand-Iurie at the Assises goeth on a partie suspected.
1612 G. Chapman tr. Virgil in tr. Petrarch Seven Penitentiall Psalms 50 A Great and politicke man..Is iudge and iuror, goes on life and death: And damns before the fault hath any breath.
1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 106 When the Jury shall go on thy murdered soul,..thou wilt be found guilty of thine own damnation.
4. intransitive. To use (something) as a basis for action, opinion, theory, etc. Cf. to go by —— 4 at Phrasal verbs 2, to go upon —— 5 at Phrasal verbs 2.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > attest, bear witness [verb (transitive)] > use as evidence
to go upon ——1762
to go on ——1817
to go by ——1830
1817 Rep. Court of Exchequer 2 108 If the Court had nothing to go on but this answer of the defendant, one might have a difficulty in considering how to deal with the case.
1878 A. F. P. Harcourt Down by Drawle I. xi. 194 He had finally come to the conclusion, that with no better clue to go on.., his best policy was to wait.
1915 Jrnl. House of Representatives Ohio 106 App. 1459 \\\\'e are going on what has been reported to us, and I have only been going on what has been told to me by others.
1947 K. Tennant Lost Haven xix. 318 'Course I've got nothing to go on, but I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the johns wasn't on to us.
1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 1323/2 Those who only go on ‘general impressions’ will not have made themselves aware of the phenomena in question.
2002 S. Brett Torso in Town (2003) x. 67 She and Jude had so little to go on, so little information, there was no point in even thinking about the mystery.
5. intransitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). To concern oneself with; to like, care for. Chiefly in negative contexts, esp. I don't go much on and variants.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disfavour > [verb (transitive)]
mislooka1450
disfavour1571
discountenance1589
disgrace1593
dishearten1658
to lean against1804
I don't go much on1882
1824 in N. E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 274 The people goes more on making nice cloth hear than they did thare.
1882 B. Harte Flip, & Found at Blazing Star 21 We don't go much on that kind o' cattle yer.
1892 Eng. Illustr. Mag. 9 460 She didn't go much on me, but the boy was everything to her.
1940 F. Sargeson Man & Wife (1944) 80 I don't go much on putting people away, I said.
1958 Daily Express 17 Feb. 3/6 Waterloo was fascinating. But I didn't go much on the old armour.
2006 Independent 30 Dec. 33/8 I don't go much on models. Don't care how they look or the company they keep.
6. intransitive. To have a spell or stint on (play or gym apparatus, a fairground ride, etc.).
ΚΠ
1875 23rd Ann. Rep. Children's Aid Soc. (N.Y.) App. 60 I had a very nice time down the country... I went on the swing.
1899 S. Gordon Lesser Destinies ii. 30 ‘What! at my time of life?’ smiled Tabitha. ‘That's exac'ly what my grandmother said when I asked her to go on the roundabout,’ replied..Jenny.
1921 Washington Post 14 Aug. (Features section) 6/3 We went on the swings, see-saws, aeroplanes, derby, shoot the shoot, the whip and the joy josher.
1969 C. Potok Promise (2005) 11 Now he wanted to go on the roller coaster.
2013 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 30 Aug. 4 Youngsters swam in the gym's pool before going on the exercise bikes and cross-trainers.
7. intransitive. To appear or feature on (radio or television, or a radio or television programme).
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1923 Wireless Age July 30/3 Now..they are getting every Tom, Dick and Harry to go on the radio.
1939 G. Lawrence in D. E. Mitchell Journalism & Life vi. 92/2 I'd like to go on television.
1982 L. M. Gibbs Love Canal v. 165 We needed..national coverage close to election time. But the people in the office weren't excited when I told them I was going on the show.
2004 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 18 Apr. 12 She should tell her story... She should go on Parkinson and all the top TV shows in Britain.
8. intransitive. Of a person: to start taking (medication or drugs).
ΚΠ
1955 Illicit Narcotics Traffic: Hearings before Subcomm. Improvem. Federal Criminal Code (U.S. Senate, 84th Congr., 1st Sess.) 1781 Three quarters of them had been delinquent..before they ever went on drugs.
1969 B. T. Eiduson Psychiatric Case Hist. Event Syst. 222 He became somewhat resentful and upset whenever he went on medication.
1973 Changing Times June 17 It isn't always necessary for someone..to go on medication right away.
1980 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 14 Mar. Modern parents would sooner have the kid go on drugs than have him set out to seek his fortune in Australia.
1999 BBC Vegetarian Good Food Apr. 83/1 If you do have to go on antibiotics, take ‘probiotics’, which help repopulate your gut with the healthy bacteria.
2006 H. Emmons Chem. of Joy iii. 3 She went on antidepressants ten years ago.
9. intransitive. To access or use the internet, a website, social media, etc. See also to go online at online adj. and adv. Phrases 2.
ΚΠ
1995 .net Feb. 30/1 One of those frequently asked questions newbies come up with is ‘Won't I fill up my hard drive very quickly when I go on the Internet?’
1998 Vibe Oct. 123/2 You can go on the Web and download an MP3 copy of ‘Hey Jude’ onto your hard drive.
2005 Santa Fe New Mexican (Nexis) 14 Dec. (Your Techology section) 20/4 One of my friends had been dating someone for a while and then one day I went on Facebook and it said they were together.
2013 E. Huang Fresh off Boat xiv. 217 I started going on eBay, finding the big..sellers in China, and g-chatting them.
 to go over ——
1. intransitive. To move or travel so as to pass across or above; to cross to the other side of; to traverse.See also to go over the top at over the top adv. 1.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (transitive)] > across
overgoeOE
to come overeOE
to go over ——OE
overcome?c1225
passc1300
overpassa1382
cross1583
traject1624
cut1634
OE Blickling Homilies 177 Mon geseah hine..windum stilnesse bebeodan, & drygum fotum gan ofer sæs yþa.
OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iv. xxxvii. 320 Þa þa he com to þære forecwedenan brygce, he eode ofer [L. transiit] þa brygce mid..mycelre ealdorlicnesse & bælde.
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 32 Fra þis mount men gase ower a grete valay till anoþer grete mount.
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 53v To Ga ouer mowntans, transalpinare.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Deut. iv. 21 And the Lorde was angrie with me for your sakes, so that he sware, yt I shulde not go ouer Iordane.
1674 H. Woodward Let. 31 Dec. in L. Cheves Shaftesbury Papers (2000) 459 Wee went over many fattigous hills.
1734 Weekly Amusement 8 Mar. 448/1 For one to dream that he goes over a broken bridge, signifies fear.
1766 J. Bartram Diary 20 Jan. in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1942) 33 43/2 Our host went over the river to shoot geese in the pine-land ponds.
1826 Literary Souvenir 191 He..enlisted into a regiment that was going over the sea.
1885 A. Daly Horizon i. 15 We'll go over the prairies on wild horses and camp out in the woods.
1933 A. M. Lindbergh Let. 12 Dec. in Locked Rooms & Open Doors (1974) 179 The clouds increase as we go over the mountains.
1961 Amer. Motorcyclist May 26/1 Charley's bike went over the wall and he came up with a minor fracture.
2008 S. M. Thomas Criminal's Paradise 161 You go over the toll bridge and turn left.
2. intransitive. To be placed so as to rest on or cover; to be placed or laid over.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > admit of being placed as cover on
to go over ——1534
1534 J. Perpownte Let. 1 July in Lisle Papers (P.R.O.: SP 3/13/49) f. 55 It may pleyse you to send maystresse brygette a thynge yt goyth ouer the fore parte of her heede.
1660 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist 113 Lay thy jugg upon thy Iron bar within thy Furnace, let the nose lie out about one inch, let not the nose incline, but look a little upward, set to another jugg whose mouth will go over his mouth, lute them fast together.
1693 F. Brooks Barbarian Cruelty 59 A short Cloak..with a Cap to go over his Head.
1738 R. Smith Compl. Syst. Opticks II. iii. i. 298 One of these ropes ICCG goes over the back of the beam CC.
1780 W. Tooke tr. J. G. Georgi Russia I. 186 During the very severe frost they put on a third doublet, made like the others, only large enough to go over them.
1841 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2 ii. 181 Sufficient dung is made on the farm to go over the fallow.
1890 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Sept. 891 Fox gave him a vizard to go over his face.
1966 Life 21 Jan. 35 (advt.) This decorative, flower-splashed evening raincoat..goes over a bare-shouldered dress of silk.
1998 Homes & Ideas Mar. 50/3 The fabric was..used to make loose covers to go over the bedhead and footboard.
3. intransitive.
a. To review, consider, or examine thoroughly (and sometimes spec. sequentially or in serial order).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > scrutinize [verb (transitive)]
through-seekOE
gropea1250
to search outa1382
ensearch1382
boltc1386
examinea1387
ransackc1390
ripea1400
search1409
overreach?a1425
considerc1425
perquirec1460
examec1480
peruse?1520
grounda1529
study1528
oversearch1532
perscrute1536
scrute1536
to go over ——1537
scan1548
examinate1560
rifle1566
to consider of1569
excuss1570
ripe1573
sift1573
sift1577
to pry into ——1581
dive1582
rub1591
explore1596
pervestigate1610
dissecta1631
profound1643
circumspect1667
scrutinize1671
perscrutatea1679
introspect1683
rummage1690
reconnoitre1740
scrutinate1742
to look through1744
scrutiny1755
parse1788
gun1819
cat-haul1840
vivisect1876
scour1882
microscope1888
tooth-comb1893
X-ray1896
comb1904
fine-tooth comb1949
1537 M. Coverdale tr. M. Luther Expos. Psalm xxii sig. A.vi Let thys be sayde for an introductyon. Nowe wyll we shortlye go ouer the Psalme [Ger. den Psalm..uber lauffen].
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xviii. sig. Aa8v So in this iollie scoffing brauerie he went ouer vs all, saying, He left one, because she was ouer-waiwarde; another, because [etc.].
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. Ded. sig. aivv I should haue kept it [sc. what I haue written] by me, till I had once againe gone ouer it.
1687 Bp. G. Burnet Contin. Refl. Mr. Varillas's Hist. Heresies 66 Thus I have gone over his third Tome.
1781 E. Rutledge Let. 14 Aug. in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) III. 389 I really believe we shall have the whole business of civil government to go over.
1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xxi. 337 One after the other she went over the acquaintances she had made.
1881 G. M. Craik Sydney III. i. 13 Horace and I have been going over old letters.
1918 Everybody's Mag. Apr. 72/2 Again and again she went over in her thoughts the long journey here.
1975 New Yorker 17 Nov. 84/2 The couple sat down to go over every detail in their case to prepare for anything that might help in their defence.
2011 J. Brandon Arkansas iii. 24 He kept going over it in his mind, picking out new details.
b. To work on for a second time; to retouch, retrace.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > repeating > repeat (an action) [verb (transitive)] > go over again with some process
to go over ——1560
to run over ——1580
1560 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli 2nd Pt. Secretes Alexis of Piemont 93 Write..great letters..and lette them drie, then go ouer them againe ones more.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vi. x. 746 After you haue cut it and amended the stocke, some begin to prop, vnderset, and binde it,..which done, you must go ouer it with the second fashion of dressing of it.
1620 G. Markham Farwell to Husbandry ii. 19 Thus you may euery yeare dresse one or other piece of ground, till you haue gone ouer all your ground.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Vitis You must go over the Vines again..rubbing off all Danglers, as before, and training in the leading Shoots.
1788 J. J. Powell Ess. Learning of Devises 111 He with his pen went over his name in the presence of a third witness.
1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts I. 758/1 Every part is carefully gone over, superfluous gold being removed from some parts, and worked into others.
1897 Garden 1 May 318/2 It is necessary to go over the beds daily.
1938 Pop. Mech. Dec. 818/1 The library custodians regularly go over the books and shelves carefully with a vacuum.
1963 K. H. Seibel Joyful Christmas Craft Bk. i. 5 Go over the pencil lines with a marking pen.
2002 Paint Decor Fall 19/1 She went over the glaze diagonally with a combing tool to create the look of woven fabric.
c. To visit so as to view, inspect, or search the various parts of (a place, building, etc.).
ΚΠ
1632 T. Hooker Soules Prepar. for Christ 83 When men goe the bounds of the parish, they goe over every part of it, and see how farre it goes.
1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 113 With what Delight, with what Thankfulness, did we go over every Scene of it [sc. the Garden], that had before been so dreadful to me!
1778 F. Burney Evelina II. xv. 134 ‘I could n't find her;—yet I dare say I've been over half the garden.’ ‘Half! but why did not you go over it all?’
1830 F. A. Kemble Let. 3 Sept. in Rec. Girlhood (1878) II. vi. 183 I have been gratified and interested..by going over one of the largest manufactories of this place.
1885 Law Times 79 74/2 The defendants had gone over the house before taking it.
1943 Pop. Sci. Mar. 89/1 Local Merchant Marine inspectors..went over every ship from stem to stern, checking the safety equipment.
1998 R. Rendell Sight for Sore Eyes xviii. 186 ‘Could I have a look over the house? See the rest of it, I mean?’ ‘You want to go over the house?’
d. slang. To search (a person) for the purpose of finding and stealing goods. Cf. to go through —— at Phrasal verbs 2. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > rob [verb (transitive)] > search with a view to robbing > specifically a person
riflea1400
to go over ——1889
1889 Referee 2 June 1/2 A few who had..gone over the landlord, left him skinned.
1900 Sporting Times 20 Jan. 5/4 If I kill a Boer and have a chance of going over him, you bet there won't be much left in his trow trows when I have done with him.
4. intransitive.
a. To read over; to practise, rehearse (fully).
ΘΚΠ
society > education > learning > [verb (transitive)] > practise
practise?a1425
to go over ——1557
1557 W. Peryn Spirituall Exercyses sig. A.iijv When ye haue gone ouer them [sc. exercyses] once, if ye fele not so much fruite in them as ye wold,..then maye ye..begyn them all agayne.
1661 W. Annand Fides Catholica x. 311 As young beginners will often run over their letter with a dry pen, so must tender Christians often go over their Catechisme untill the doctrine, therein contained, become familiar.
1762 G. Colman Musical Lady i. 15 Signor Rosini, please to take the instrument—I'll go over this air—and do you accompany me on the Viol-di-Gambo.
1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic iii. i. 58 Whisk. I wish, Sir—you would practise this without me..Puff. Very well; we'll go over it by and bye.
1841 Fraser's Mag. Jan. 16/2 The schoolboy goes over his lesson, previous to going up before the master.
1898 R. E. Gale & R. M. Baker Bachelor Hall i. 13 There! I'll stop crying for the moon and go over my part for the last time.
1943 C. Beaton Diary in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xiii. 113 During the lunch interval she remains on the stage with perhaps a Thermos and a Marie biscuit to go over and over her scenes.
1996 P. Godwin Mukiwa (1997) xiii. 262 The prime minister is going to wash and freshen up, and go over his speech here for an hour or so.
b. To say again, reiterate; to narrate or recount again, retell.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > repetition > repeat [verb (transitive)]
doublec1380
naitc1400
reportc1405
repeat1427
renewa1464
iterate1533
resume1535
to run over ——1538
redouble1580
to go over ——1583
re-say1583
reclaim1590
ingeminate1594
reword1604
reassume1631
reutter1632
oversay1639
to fetch over1642
reassert1647
1583 G. Babington Briefe Conf. Frailtie & Faith 100 Woulde euer the Lorde Jesus haue thus gone ouer and ouer it againe, and iterated charge vpon charge in this order, if it had not beene a most excellent vertue?
1657 E. Porter Trin-unus-deus iv. 22 They did not understand him, so he went over it again and again, and then asked them nondum intelligitis?.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xvi. 100 And some, through the default of their Memories..are not able all their life-time, to reckon or regularly go over any moderate Series of Numbers. For he that will count Twenty [etc.].
1789 Ann. Reg. 1787 167/1 Lord Hood rose..and went over the arguments he had urged upon a former occasion.
1799 Gentleman's Mag. 69 Suppl. 1116/2 In support of this motion, he went over the various arguments by which he had recommended his proposition to the attention of the House on a former occasion.
1819 Trial J. Russell for Politic. Libel 25 He..again went over his tale of distress, being out of employ, starving, &c.
1878 Scribner's Monthly 16 228/1 He went over the explanation two or three times.
1945 Life 25 June 90 Eisenhower would listen patiently, then say, ‘You'll have to repeat that, Prime Minister,’ and Churchill would go over it again.
1990 S. King Stand (new ed.) ii. li. 711 If he goes over his story enough times..he'll come to almost believe it is true.
 to go through ——
1. intransitive. To experience, undergo (esp. a difficult process, phase, etc.); to suffer, endure.See also to go through a phase at phase n.2 2b.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > suffer mental pain [verb (transitive)]
thave835
i-dreeeOE
tholec897
underbearc950
adreeOE
dreeOE
driveOE
i-tholeOE
throwOE
underfoc1000
bearOE
takec1175
bidec1200
suffera1250
leadc1330
drinka1340
endure1340
wielda1375
underfong1382
receivec1384
sustain1398
finda1400
undergoa1400
underganga1470
ponder?a1525
tolerate1531
to go through ——1535
to feel the weight of?1553
enjoy1577
carry1583
abrook1594
the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > endure patiently [verb (transitive)]
takec1175
dure1297
suffer1297
eata1382
to take in patiencec1385
to take awortha1387
endure1477
to go through ——1535
pocket1589
to sit down1589
hack1936
the world > action or operation > operation upon something > have effect on [verb (transitive)] > be subjected to or undergo an action > undergo or experience
feelOE
seeOE
passa1325
provec1330
attastec1374
wielda1375
tastec1380
sufferc1390
to pass through ——c1400
expert?a1475
traverse1477
experiment1484
savour1509
to taste of1526
to go through ——1535
sustain1575
approve1578
try1578
experience1588
undergo1600
to run through ——1602
pree1806
1535 W. Marshall tr. Marsilius of Padua Def. of Peace ii. iv. f. 51 All men that euer please god: haue gone throughe [L. transierunt] many trybulacyons.
1605 W. C. tr. C. Paschal False Complaints xxvii. 209 Other ages must goe through many difficulties.
1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. II. xvi. 464 I do not remember I have any where read, that Caesar was ever wounded; a thousand have fallen in less Dangers, than the least of those he went through.
1712 J. Arbuthnot App. to John Bull Still in Senses ii. 14 I tell thee, it is absolutely necessary for the Common Good, that thou shouldst go through this Operation.
1799 Missionary Mag. 15 July 322 There are men found willing to go through these greater hardships.
1820 Examiner No. 619. 113/1 He has already gone through unutterable agonies.
1889 C. Smith Repentance Paul Wentworth I. viii. 158 Wentworth had gone through a process of moral hardening.
1931 Motor Boating June 142 Boating is going through a period of great public enthusiasm.
1950 A. White Lost Traveller i. iii. 20 None of them had thought of him as a man likely to go through any kind of spiritual crisis.
2011 J. Cocker Mother, Brother, Lover 156 A former club-singer going through a messy divorce and with a drinking problem.
2. intransitive.
a. To consider in detail or in serial order; to examine the whole of; to look through, search through.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > examination by discussion > examine by discussion [verb (transitive)]
examinec1384
discussa1400
discutea1475
canvass1530
ventilate?1530
to go through ——1535
touta1568
dissert1623
1535 W. Marshall tr. Marsilius of Padua Def. of Peace ii. xxx. f. 137 Thus than to haue gone throughe [L. pertransisse] the doubtes moued in the thyrde and the. xxvii. chapytres of this dyccyon, lette it be suffycyente.
1560 J. Knox Answer Great Nomber Blasphemous Cauillations 299 I wil go through your questions, and seuerally answer to euerie one.
1622 J. Brinsley Consol. Gram. School 82 Whiche three bookes being well gone through, scholars will easily and speedily run through all other Greek Authors.
1668 A. Marvell Let. 25 Apr. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 74 The Committee of the whole House hath now gon through that bill.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 44. ¶8 I have now gone through the several dramatick Inventions which are made use of by ignorant Poets.
1756 W. Walton Miraculous Powers Church of Christ ii. 125 I shall go through his remarks on each of these gifts.
1861 Temple Bar 1 405 It took the party some time to go through the contents of the casket.
1887 ‘L. Carroll’ Game of Logic i. §1. 14 It would take far too long to go through all the Propositions.
1931 Pop. Aviation Dec. 116/2 I went through our files and did a little statistical work.
1990 J. Eberts & T. Ilott My Indecision is Final vii. 71 Every week we would..go through the list again to see who we had missed.
2001 P. P. Read Alice in Exile (2002) ii. iii. 142 The head waiter..went through the menu with him, making his recommendations sotto voce.
b. Originally slang. To search (a person) for the purpose of finding or stealing goods. Cf. to go over —— 3d at Phrasal verbs 2. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > search for or seek [verb (transitive)] > search a place or receptacle thoroughly
asearch1382
searcha1387
ransacka1400
ripea1400
upripe?a1400
riflec1400
ruffle1440
gropea1529
rig1572
rake1618
rummage1621
haul1666
fish1727
call1806
ratch1859
to turn over1859
to go through ——1861
rifle1894
rancel1899
to take apart1920
fine-tooth comb1949
1861 Calif. Police Gaz. (San Francisco) 31 Mar. 2/4 Upon ‘going through him’, over $2,000 was found upon his person.
1865 T. W. Knox Camp-fire & Cotton-field 421 Not being privileged to ‘go through’ me as they had anticipated, the gentlemanly guerrillas went through the overseer. They took his money, his hat, his pantaloons, and his saddle.
1880 A. A. Hayes New Colorado (1881) xi. 154 The road agents had ‘gone through’ all the passengers of the stage.
1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route 205 Train crews also go through the hobos.
1945 R. W. Service Ploughman of Moon 194 The girls were ‘going through’ a drunken sailor.
c. To search (a person's pockets, possessions, etc.).
ΚΠ
1865 Rogues & Rogueries N.Y. 112 While this is done, the others go through the man's pockets.
1896 Westm. Gaz. 20 Apr. 2/3 Two men were charged in the police-courts on Saturday with attempting to ‘go through’ the pockets of an elderly gentleman.
1965 Life 2 July 59/4 He went through my belongings and took away my..empty notebooks, ballpoint pens, all my documents.
1996 J. King Football Factory (1997) 49 He only goes through her handbag and nicks twenty quid.
2006 ‘T. Reynolds’ Blood, Sweat & Tea (2009) 202 If the patient is unconscious then we need to get as much information as possible, and one way of doing this is to go through their possessions.
3. intransitive.
a. To work through or complete the stages of (an undertaking, process, course of study, etc.). Also in early use: †to execute (a plan) (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > carrying out > execute, perform, or carry out [verb (transitive)] > carry into effect (a command, promise, plan, etc.)
fillOE
fulfilc1300
performc1300
executec1405
to draw in(to) consequencec1420
forthfillc1420
persolve1548
to go through ——a1586
effecta1593
to fill up1600
complete1680
to carry (something) into effect (also execution, practice, etc.)1715
implement1806
to put into effect1936
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > occupy or engage (a person) [verb (transitive)] > conduct (an affair) > deal with (a matter) > in succession
to go through ——1700
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. v. sig. D5 The world sooner wanted occasions, then he valour to goe thorow them.
1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales vi. viii. 133 Barbarous people count temporizing and delay, as base and seruile; and to goe through presently their deseignments, a royall pointe.
1653 J. Davies tr. C. Sorel Extravagant Shepherd i. 6 He had already gone through his Studies at the Colledge of Navar.
1700 J. Wallis Let. Nov. in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 316 He did with them go through a whole course of chymistry.
1707 J. Addison Present State War (1708) 38 The greatest Powers in Germany are borrowing Mony, in order to..go thorough their part of the Expence.
1813 R. Southey Life Nelson II. vi. 37 When he discovered that the judge's orders were to go through the business in a summary manner [etc.].
1868 Every Sat. 4 Jan. 8/2 A young lady of fair abilities, who had gone through her course of music and other studies.
1942 Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) 6 Jan. 1/7 The champion..went through a rigid course of body-bending exercises.
1989 L. G. Brockington Leverage of Labor iv. 77 He went through the transaction of receiving the mules with haste and anger.
2013 Daily Tel. 31 July 8/5 It's possible to get it [sc. ragwort] cleared but..few people have the time to go through the whole process.
b. To perform or rehearse fully; to recite, sing, or act (in full).See also to go through the motions at motion n. Phrases 2c.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > performer > perform [verb (transitive)] > in detail
to go through ——1725
1725 M. Davys Lady's Tale in Wks. II. 178 Of all things, I admire your Memory: were I to go through this Story after you, what Stumbles and Blunders shou'd I make by the way?
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xvii. 174 He has taught that song to our Dick..and I think he goes thro' it very prettily.
1815 T. Chalmers Let. 27 Oct. in W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers (1851) II. 21 They must have four [Ministers] to every funeral, or they do not think that it has been genteelly gone through.
1869 A. W. Ward tr. E. Curtius Hist. Greece II. ii. iv. 33 The youths went through their exercises under the superintendence of the law.
1927 Pop. Sci. Jan. 19/2 Forty or fifty young men..were cheerfully going through a series of calisthenics.
1936 Discovery Dec. 396/2 The Portuguese folk-singers, folk-players, and folk-dancers go through their traditional performances with a complete lack of self consciousness.
2005 D. Van Ronk & E. Wald Mayor of MacDougal Street (2006) 185 I broke out the guitar, and I went through the song perfectly.
4. intransitive. To use (a person, entity, etc.) as a mediator or facilitator.
ΚΠ
a1646 J. Burroughs Christ inviting Sinners (1659) 173 Jesus Christ is not only the great conveyer of all good from God to us, but also, all that comes to us from God, must go through him.
1773 J. Berridge Christian World Unmasked 133 But when you pray to the Father or the Holy Spirit, that is, to the Godhead absolutely, then you must go through the Mediator, as the only ground of your acceptance.
1822 B. E. O'Meara Napoleon in Exile I. 147 All communication, even to his lordship, ought to go through him, and him only.
1934 Pop. Aviation Mar. 140/2 (advt.) We can..assure modelbuilders of..considerably lower prices than would be possible in going through an intermediate party—your local dealer.
1952 Changing Times Feb. 28/1 Sometimes you could get the same job without going through an agency.
1996 L. Al-Hafidh et al. Europe: Rough Guide (ed. 3) i. 4 You can normally cut costs further by going through..a discount agent.
2012 N.Y. Mag. 8 Oct. 32/3 The Internet means we don't have to go through CNN or anybody else to present my data to the public.
5. intransitive. Of a bill, motion, etc.: to be considered for approval by (a legislative or deliberative body); (also in later use) to be subject to the approval or permission of (an authority).
ΚΠ
1679 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation: 1st Pt. ii. 145 So speedily did this Bill go through both Houses without any opposition.
1733 D. Neal Hist. Puritans II. 180 While the Money Bill was going through the House of Lords, the Commons were busy in drawing up a Remonstrance of the Grievances of the Nation.
1797 Hist. U.S. for 1796 ii. 62 The latter motion went through the Representatives by sixty-three votes against twenty-seven.
1863 Sat. Rev. 300 (Oxford) Every measure, before it reaches Convocation, must go through Congregation.
1912 Commerc. & Financial Chron. 20 July 141/1 Dissatisfaction..has been growing since the Act went through Parliament in December.
1970 C. Sofer Men in Mid-career x. 210 The job's frustrating in that..you've got to wait for others to agree... A decision has to go through so many people.
1994 K. Perry Business & European Community xi. 215 In 1988 the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act went through Congress.
1998 Indianapolis Star 22 Feb. k2/1 He's a hands-on owner and all decisions must go through him.
6. intransitive. Of a book: to be published successively in (a number of editions); to sell in sufficient quantity to exhaust (an edition or number of editions, impressions, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > printing > publishing > publish [verb (transitive)] > go through (editions)
to go through ——1718
1718 H. Prideaux Old & New Test. Connected II. i. 48 I have given an account of this ancient translation of the holy scriptures of the Old Testament, and all the editions it hath gone through both ancient and modern.
1761 in tr. C. Batteux Course Belles Lettres I. Transl. Pref. p. iii The work before us has been received in the most favourable manner in France, where it has gone through several editions.
1820 Examiner No. 629. 278/1 The Cenci..had nearly gone through the first edition.
1889 J. M. Robertson Ess. Crit. Method 18 The ‘Elements’..went through seven editions.
1975 J. I. Whalley Cobwebs to catch Flies viii. 97 The book went through various editions.
1984 S. H. Daniel John Toland i. 12 Toland's book went through ten printings in less than a year.
2001 MLN 116 713 The book went through four editions in eighteen years.
7. intransitive. To wear out; to consume, use up, exhaust.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > use up, expend, or consume [verb (transitive)]
spend1297
usea1382
costa1400
consumea1527
to make a hole (in anything)1591
absorb1686
to use up1712
expend1745
to use off1812
to get through ——1833
to go through ——1949
1949 D. M. Davin Roads from Home iii. iv. 241 It was a mystery the way that Paddy went through his stockings.
1966 Which? Jan. 25/1 No fewer than 80 (of 118) reported water pump failure, and these members have between them gone through 103 pumps.
2010 Independent 11 Jan. 7/2 We have gone through 1,900 tonnes of grit since the cold weather started.
 to go to ——
intransitive. colloquial. to go to it: to go ahead; to get started, get down to it, ‘get cracking’. Frequently imperative in go to it!, as an exhortation to do this.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > resolutely or energetically
to go to it1490
busklea1535
settle1576
to lay on1587
to put in (also get into) one's gearsa1658
to put (occasionally lay, set) one's shoulder to the wheel1678
yark1721
to get going1822
to pitch in1835
to roll up one's sleeves1838
square1849
to clap on1850
to wire in (also away)1864
to dig in1884
hunker1903
tie into1904
to get cracking1937
to get stuck in1938
to get weaving1942
to get it on1954
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) viii. 194 Lete vs goo to it hardly [Fr. alons y hardiment], For we durste well assaylle the devylle, when ye be wyth vs.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 733/1 Go to it, man, be nat a frayde, I wyll stande by the who so ever come.
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique i. f. 31v Well, go to it, tell as many as you can, & spare not.
1602 Contention Liberalitie & Prodigalitie iii. iii. sig. Dv I say, that I like it: goe to it, I pray you.
1655 tr. A. Semedo Hist. China i. xxix. 148 They..go to it with their fists.
1735–6 S. Legge Alphabet of Kenticisms (1876) 30 Going to 't, i.e. going to do it; as, ‘do this or that;’ the answer is—‘I am going to 't.’
1856 G. H. Boker Widow's Marriage iv. iii, in Plays & Poems II. 191 Go to it boldly, Ruffler.
1952 C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil Aeneid ix. 188 How they went to it then!
1990 A. Duff Once were Warriors (1995) ii. 25 Yah! and now Moose is sticking his big nose in! Go to it, Moosie!
 to go under ——
intransitive. To submit to, undergo; (in later use) spec. to undergo (medical treatment, esp. surgery).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > operation upon something > have effect on [verb (transitive)] > be subjected to or undergo an action > specifically of a person
havea1225
to go under ——a1400
lie1546
hold1592
undergo1600
stand1607
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > absence of resistance > accept without resistance [verb (transitive)] > give in or submit to action, treatment, or events
undergoc1175
give place1382
receivec1384
obeyc1390
to go under ——a1400
servec1400
underliec1400
submitc1425
subscribe1560
resign1593
stoop1611
to let loose1667
to qualify on1753
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9094 Al can on wonder, þe scrift þat salamon yod vnder.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 204 Which with thi fre wil hast goon vndir for us the lawis of deeth [L. ultro qui mortis pro nobis jura subisti].
1579 J. Knewstub Confut. Heresies sig. R.7 He would be abased so farre for vs, as..to leaue the highest estate in heauen, and to goe vnder the basest condition here vpon earth.
a1643 T. Crisp Christ Alone Exalted (1646) III. ix. 286 Christ the surety of his people, going under the punishment, and fulfilling the punishment.
1846 H. Colman Let. 3 Feb. in European Life & Manners (1850) II. cxx. 54 Her sister is about to go under medical treatment.
1860 Lancet 4 Aug. 109/1 He..went under treatment at the Westminster Dispensary for four months.
1920 Typogr. Jrnl. 57 485/1 S. G. Winn..has asked for two months' vacation to go under medical treatment for stomach and nervous trouble.
1999 T. Smith Miracle Birth Stories Very Premature Babies vii. 85 We came very close to having Andrea go under surgery.
 to go upon ——
1. intransitive.
†a. To attack, make an attack on. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)]
greetc893
overfallOE
riseOE
assail?c1225
to lay on or upon?c1225
onseekc1275
to set on ——c1290
infighta1300
saila1300
to go upon ——c1300
to turn one's handc1325
lashc1330
annoyc1380
impugnc1384
offendc1385
to fall on ——a1387
sault1387
affrayc1390
to set upon ——1390
to fall upon ——a1398
to lay at?a1400
semblea1400
assayc1400
havec1400
aset1413
oppressa1425
attachc1425
to set at ——c1430
fraya1440
fray1465
oppugn?a1475
sayc1475
envaye1477
pursue1488
envahisshe1489
assaulta1500
to lay to, untoa1500
requirea1500
enterprise?1510
invade1513
assemblec1515
expugn1530
to fare on1535
to fall into ——1550
mount1568
attack?1576
affront1579
invest1598
canvass1599
to take arms1604
attempt1605
to make force at, to, upon1607
salute1609
offence1614
strikea1616
to give a lift at1622
to get at ——1650
insult1697
to walk into ——1794
to go in at1812
to go for ——1838
to light on ——1842
strafe1915
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) l. 2688 Bigan godrich to go Vp-on þe danshe, and faste to slo.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) i. l. 4931 Mell[e]ager..Pullith out a suerd and vpon hem he goth.
c1500 Melusine (1895) 348 Go we vpon our enemyes to helpe & socoure our frendes.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 570/2 I go upon a mannes enemye, or assayle hym.
1562 tr. Destr. & Sacke committed by Duke of Guyse sig. a.v They wente vppon theim with greate slices of swordes and curtalaces.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 984 Ebrain perceiuing by this letter the resolution of Man-ogli, resolued also in himselfe to goe vpon him with all his armie.
1686 T. Otway tr. S. de Broë Hist. Triumvirates I. xliv. 174 Cæsar understood that his Troops..were desirous to go upon the Enemy.
b. To set about, deal with; to undertake. Now chiefly archaic and rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > undertaking > undertake [verb (transitive)]
underfoc893
fandOE
onfangOE
undernimc1000
takec1175
to take tillc1175
to take toa1250
underfongc1330
undertakea1340
to take in (also on) handa1350
undertakec1385
attamec1386
to take in (also on) handc1390
embrace1393
emprisec1410
to put to one's hand (also hands)c1410
to go upon ——c1450
enterprise?1473
to set (one's) hand to1477
go?a1500
accept1524
assume1530
to hent in (also upon) handc1540
to swallow up1544
to take to task1546
to go into ——?1548
to set in hand1548
to fare about1563
entertain1569
undergo1606
to set about ——1611
to take up1660
to come at ——1901
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 131 Þe ferthe inche is, whan false cysourys gon vp-on qwestys, & puttyn a man fro his ryȝt thrugh a fals verdyȝte.
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus v. v. sig. Aaiiiv What if I go vpon it, and bethink me of some lowly petition to my father?
1557 J. Gwynneth Playne Demonstr. xxxvii. f. 66v Why doeth Frithe (I say) bringe in Saynt Austens sayinge vpon the sayde text in those places, & not in that place, where Saynt Austen goeth vpon it purposlie, and onelie to showe the vnderstandinge thereof?
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. i. 278 Let's hence, and heare..in what fashion..he goes Vpon this present Action. View more context for this quotation
1743 S. Johnson Let. (1992) I. 35 The Life of Savage I am ready to go upon.
1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins I. xxv. 242 The first Thing I went upon was a Table; which..I intended to make big enough for us all.
1830 G. P. R. James Darnley I. v. 107 If it had been to-morrow, I'd not have gone upon the thing, for to-day my sworn service is out.
1896 Pall Mall Mag. Dec. 470 I..cannot bear to see things botched or gone upon with ignorance.
1946 J. Masefield Poems 737 She put the potion in a golden flask..and went upon her task.
1986 Times (Nexis) 4 Sept. 16/4 The sandwich-man..occasioned much mirth as he went upon his errand.
†2. intransitive. Of a judicial assembly or authority: to examine judicially or pass verdict on. Cf. to go on —— at Phrasal verbs 2. Obsolete. [Compare post-classical Latin super..ire to examine judicially (1215 in Magna Carta).]
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > trying or hearing of cause > try or hear cause [verb (transitive)] > consider the case of
to go upon ——?1537
?1537 tr. Erasmus Declamatio Med. sig. B.v O a newe and straunge dignitie of phisike. They go vpon [L. agitur de] lyfe and deth of a man, and the sentence of the iudge hengeth vpon the foreiudgement of the phisician.
1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum ii. xxv. 87 If anie Duke..be appeached of treason, or anie other capitall crime, he is iudged by his peeres and equals: that is, the yeomanrie doth not go vpon him, but an enquest of the Lordes of the Parliament.
1651 C. Walker High Court of Justice 36 Neither can this Petty Jury of 12. men goe upon the prisoner, unlesse a Bill of Inditement containing the whole Matter of charge be first found in open Court by a Grand Jury.
1706 S. Sewall Diary 6 June (1973) I. 548 The Govr bundled up the papers and sent them into the House of Deputies, without asking the Council whether they would first go upon them, with whom the Petition was entered.
1728 R. Warren Impartial Churchman vii. 133 Yet should a Jury of Critics go upon this Case, how could they bring in their Verdict on the Church's side?
1770 Scots Mag. July 365/1 The Attorney General..never went upon the subject-matter of the letter, or gave any manner of reason for his styling it..a false, scandalous, and seditious libel.
1807 Trial Col. Aaron Burr II. 63 A Juror, whose mind is prepared to go upon the case to receive his convictions of the guilt or innocence of the accused.., is the only proper person to be called an impartial juror.
†3. intransitive. To approach (a certain age, time, or point in time); = to go on —— 2a at Phrasal verbs 2. Chiefly in the progressive, as going upon ——, to be going upon ——. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > future [verb (transitive)] > approach a time
to go upon ——1567
to go on ——1798
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xii. f. 150v Two hundred yeeres already of my lyfe full passed bee, And now I go vppon the third [L. nunc tertia vivitur aetas].
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. iii. ii. 231 In all the time that I haue serued his Maiesty..which is now going vpon the three and twentieth yeare.
1645 W. Prynne Hidden Workes Darkenes 19 It imports Him and His Kingdom very much that they marry the Prince His onely Sonne presently, going upon 23. yeeres.
1702 Eng. Theophrastus 74 Now she is just going upon Sixteen.
4. intransitive. To be chargeable to. Later only in to go upon the parish: (of a person) to be financially dependent on parish relief; to be destitute; cf. on (also upon) the parish at parish n. Phrases. Now historical and rare.
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1660 A. Marvell Let. 17 Nov. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 2 All things are to go upon his Majestyes own purse.
1818 Bury & Norwich Post 11 Nov. 1/2 His family must go upon the parish or positively starve.
1840 E. S. Thomas Reminisc. Last 65 Years II. 41 His wife and children were discharged from their employment, and went upon the parish.
1901 S. P. Rice Occas. Ess. Native South Indian Life ii. 35 We all know the dread an old couple have to ‘go upon the parish’.
5. intransitive. To use as evidence for, or in support of, an opinion, theory, etc. Cf. to go on —— 4 at Phrasal verbs 2.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > attest, bear witness [verb (transitive)] > use as evidence
to go upon ——1762
to go on ——1817
to go by ——1830
1762 J. Macpherson Fingal 182 The Irish historians..have nothing to go upon but the traditions of their bards.
1803 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 832/2 Surely a literal translation is not to be departed from but upon good grounds; and here is no ground whatever to go upon.
1909 F. L. Barclay Rosary xv. 154 You see, this gave me something to go upon.
2008 Daily Brief (Nexis) 4 Sept. You have nothing to go upon but tired old tropes gleaned from the movies.
 to go with ——
1. intransitive.
a. To accompany (a person or group), attend as a companion. In later use also (colloquial): to be regularly in company with; to be friends with.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > court or woo [verb (transitive)] > keep company with as a lover
to go with ——c1330
to go rounda1867
trot1888
to go around1904
track1916
society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > show (the way) [verb (transitive)] > accompany as a guide > accompany or attend as companion
to go with ——c1330
convoyc1405
to wait on or upon ——1450
squire1530
to wait of ——?1551
escort1746
the world > relative properties > relationship > accompaniment > accompany or attend [verb (transitive)]
followeOE
to be with1382
to stand with ——1384
fellowship?c1400
fellow1434
encompanya1513
to go with ——1523
to come with ——1533
accompany1543
associate1548
affellowship1559
to wait on ——1579
concomitate1604
second1609
companion1622
comitate1632
attend1653
waita1674
to keep (a person) company1849
c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 3633 We beþ redi in al þing Anon to go wiþ king Arthour To his manschipe and his honour.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 127 Madame..ye shall go with me, for I may nat longe mysse you.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxcvi. 439 Ye shall be souerayne and gouernour..of all theym that gothe with you.
1603 Philotus xcv. sig. D3 Ȝe sall ga with me hame.
1680 Tryal & Sentence E. Cellier 38 On Thursday last she went with her Husband to Mrs. Cellier's House.
1707 C. Cibber Comical Lovers iii. 29 She went to take the Air, chose out two Ladies to go with her, that came in after me, and left me most barbarously behind her.
1799 Edinb. Mag. July 77/2 They went away on the Friday morning, and her master went with them.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 544 It was determined that..Fletcher should go with Monmouth to England.
1879 F. R. Stockton Rudder Grange i. 4 Euphemia sometimes went with me on my expeditions to real-estate offices.
1906 U. Sinclair Jungle xxvi. 315 He went with a new set now, young unmarried fellows who were ‘sporty’.
1940 Railroad Mag. Apr. 10/1 Margery..went with him to the office.
1997 E. White Farewell Symphony (1998) viii. 343 One afternoon Giovanni wanted me to go with him to a kung-fu movie.
b. colloquial. To have a romantic or sexual relationship with; to have sexual intercourse with.
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?1834 Those London Mots in Bang-up Songster! 39 If you can sport a bob or two, Those London mots will go with you.
?1889 ‘C. Deveureux’ Vénus in India II. 124 I'll go with you, but if your friend likes I'll go to him, or he can come to me when you are done.
1892 Harper's Mag. May 932/1 The ‘young ladies’ he had ‘gone with’ and ‘had feelin's about’ were now staid matrons.
1925 J. Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer iv. 94 Ain't a Bowery broad would go wid yer, ye little Yap.
1970 R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 39/2 I've been going with one boy for about a year, but now we're just dating. It used to be steady.
2008 R. Moore & G. Owen My Word is my Bond (2009) xiii. 340 She now lived on the streets and went with men..to earn a little money.
2. intransitive.
a. To side with, favour; to agree with. †Also of a victory, outcome, etc.: to fall to, be the lot of (obsolete).
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or backing > support, side with, or back [verb (transitive)]
werea1300
to be abouta1400
support?a1439
to go with ——a1475
outbear1530
follow1548
subscribe1560
second1596
suffrage1614
to wait on ——1639
subjoin1810
suffrage1838
a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 129 The peple will go with hym þat best mey susteyne and rewarde ham.
1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. v. xvi. 591 Thei..wil foresake their owne selues, and ioine of theire owne accorde to our side, to goe with vs.
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie ix. 375/1 They shall make their triumphes aforehande, but the victorie shall goe with vs, if wee haue God for our defence.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 76 The day Was yours by accident: had it gone with vs, We should not [etc.] . View more context for this quotation
1658 R. Baxter Certain Disputations Right to Sacraments (new ed.) 195 Here I must confess my self in as great an admiration at the words and dealings of Mr. Blake and some godly learned Divines that go with him in this Cause, as ever I was brought to by the groundless confidence of such men.
1780 Parl. Reg. 1775–80 XVI. 181 Should the committee go with him in this opinion, he meant to include the glass in the wool export bill.
1886 Athenæum 7 Aug. 169/3 We cannot go with him in defending the MS. ‘tibi’..as an ethical dative.
1892 Cornhill Mag. July 47 My sympathies went strongly with the lady.
1914 J. Oxenham Red Wrath x. 69 It's one thing to hate a man to the point of wishing him gone, but it's quite another thing to help him off. I can't go with you there.
1989 J. Grisham Time to Kill xlii. 401 Poor old Eula Dell Yates had cried one way, then cried the other, and everyone knew she would eventually go with the majority.
2013 R. B. Ness Genius Unmasked vi. 62 About one-third of the time, the actual subject went against his own judgment and went with the opinion of the majority.
b. Originally North American. To opt for, choose (a particular option). Cf. to go for —— 4 at Phrasal verbs 2.
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1955 Mich. Alumnus 8 Oct. 6/2 Though he could have brought back the starters, Oosterbaan chose to go with this lineup.
1985 New Yorker 5 Aug. 26/2 For dinner I decide to go with chicken.
2007 Wired Jan. 119 If you can't bear the appearance of those big black roof slabs, go with building-integrated photovoltaics.
3. intransitive. To be a concomitant of, be associated with, go together with; to be seen as an accompaniment of; to be included with.See also to go with the territory at territory n.1 Phrases.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > be part of something [verb (intransitive)]
belonga1393
to go with ——1567
blonks1871
1567 T. Harding Reioindre to M. Iewels Replie against Masse Pref. f. 10 When a new Lawe tooke place, Sacrifice propre to that Lawe should go with it.
a1602 W. Perkins Godlie & Learned Expos. Epist. Iude (1606) 8/1 Iustification goes with sanctification, though iustification be before in nature, yet they are wrought at the same time.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. i. 40 For where an vncleane mind carries vertuous qualities, the commendations go with pitty. View more context for this quotation
a1770 J. Jortin Serm. (1771) IV. i. 6 Poverty and riches are of themselves things indifferent; and the blessing of God may go with them both.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 76/1 Hereditary wealth, and the rank which goes with it, are too much idolized by creeping sycophants. View more context for this quotation
1845 N. P. Willis Dashes at Life with Free Pencil iii. 60 May I ask what fortune goes with the hand of Lady Angelica.
1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. xv. 361 Criminality habitually went with dirtiness.
1928 Boys' Life Mar. 4 That's only part of the fun that goes with the..week-end hike.
1948 ‘R. Crompton’ Family Roundabout xiii. 137 Mrs. Richmond, the woman from the village who ‘went with’ the cottage, was in the kitchen.
1988 N. L. Schwartz Blue Guitar vi. 94 One might argue..that it is precisely individual freedom that goes with the idea of state sovereignty.
2006 Scots Mag. June 592/1 I meet constant enthusiasm, tempered with the down-to-earthness that goes with being an islander.
4. intransitive. To match; to be a partner or complement to; to harmonize with. Frequently with adverb complement, as beautifully, well. Cf. sense 46c.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree, harmonize, or be congruous with [verb (transitive)] > go with or match
to fall in1577
to go with ——1710
match1722
assort1800
neighbour1820
1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 157 A Dulcimer..goes very well with the Flute.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xl. 400 The innocence which would go extremely well with a sash and tucker, is a little out of keeping with the rouge and pearl necklace.
1893 Cornhill Mag. July 93 A delightful baritone, which ‘went’ beautifully with her own soprano.
1963 Life 18 Oct. 25/3 I have..several cotton kerchiefs in flowered patterns that ‘go nicely’ with my yellow or salmon slacks for shopping downtown.
1976 R. Massey When I was Young iv. 39 Father had gone out on his own and bought one of the new white waistcoats to go with the swallowtails.
2003 Diva Aug. 66/1 The local delicacy is laverbread, a type of seaweed, which goes well with bacon and cockles.
†5. intransitive. To understand, follow (an idea, person, etc.). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > understand [verb (transitive)] > keep up with
follow1667
to go with ——1873
to keep track1883
to be with1900
1873 E. Bulwer-Lytton Kenelm Chillingly I. ii. xiii. 281 ‘Do you go with me?’ ‘Partly, sir; but I'm puzzled a little still.’
1891 Law Times 90 462/1 The Court declared the deed a nullity on the ground that the mind of the mortgagee did not go with the deed she signed.
6. intransitive. to go with it: to accept the current situation or state of things; to make the best of an unexpected or undesirable state of affairs. Often as an exhortation to do this, as just go with it!. Cf. to go with the flow at flow n.1 Additions.
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1959 S. Lamkin Comes a Day i. ii. 32 If I'm what you want, don't be scared of it. Go with it, baby, go with it!
1963 J. P. Donleavy Singular Man 305 Don't fight it. Go with it. Till there's a chance to go elsewhere.
1990 J. Handly et al. Why Women Worry ii. vii. 92 Rather than battling their fate, they went with it, and in some cases, their bodies reacted positively too.
2002 S. Stacey & J. Fairley 21st Cent. Beauty Bible 191/1 If your hair is dirty or greasy, just go with it.
2006 P. Williams Rise & Fall Yummy Mummy xii. 101 It's such an odd situation that the only way to deal with it is to go with it.
 to go without ——
intransitive. Not to have; to suffer the lack or deprivation of; to dispense with, forgo. Frequently (and in earliest use) with prepositional object implied by the context.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > non-possession > not have or lack [verb (intransitive)]
fasteOE
to miss of ——?c1250
wantc1390
to go without ——?a1500
lack1523
mister1531
to miss of ——1796
the mind > possession > non-possession > not have [verb (transitive)] > lack > do without
forgoa1400
to go without ——?a1500
lack1551
?a1500 (?1458) in J. H. Parker Some Acct. Domest. Archit. (1859) III. ii. 43 Of the pore penyles the hiereward wold habbe A hood or a girdel, and let hem goo withoute.
1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere iv. p. cxv He that by his wyll receyueth it, and whiche shulde els for his frowardenesse and contrarye wyll go without it.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. ii. 87 I hope I shall make shift to goe without him. View more context for this quotation
1695 J. Locke Further Considerations conc. Raising Value of Money 58 Silver which every Goldsmith..was content to pay high for, rather than go without.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. x. 72 He should either take one third of the money, or go without.
1786 Elfrida II. 52 She would never sleep in the dark again, if she went without her dinner to buy a candle.
1825 New Monthly Mag. 13 139 We had rather eat the same dinner two days following than go without one.
1872 S. Butler Erewhon ii. 10 I had to go without my own grog.
1889 M. Caird Wing of Azrael I. ii. 10 Viola had to go almost without education.
1920 M. Baldwin Canteening Overseas 57 Wood costs six francs for eight pieces so one just goes without except on special occasions.
1997 ‘J. Kincaid’ My Brother 68 He could not go without sex for more than two weeks.
2010 A. Nolan Like Father, love Son xiii. 83 He would have to go without his regular cups of tea.

Compounds

C1. With nouns.
go-cup n. originally and chiefly North American (a) a disposable plastic or paper cup of the type provided by a cafe or restaurant for a takeaway drink; (originally spec., esp. in the southern United States) such a cup used to take an alcoholic drink away from the premises of a bar or restaurant; cf. to go at Phrases 3i; (b) a reusable cup of a type suitable for transporting a drink.
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1980 Alton (Illinois) Tel. 1 Feb. b3/2 The liquor commissioner said the lounge owners must cease and desist from providing go cups for alcoholic beverages.
1989 J. Kaplan Pearl's Progress x. 135 ‘How about coffee?’ Go-cups in hand, they sat in wrought-iron chairs.
1994 C. Meyer Fast, Funny & 40 110 Get up Saturday morning, put coffee in a go-cup and drive across town.
1997 N.Y. Times 7 Sept. 18/2 Despite the Starbucks coffee he gulps from a ‘go cup’,..he hurries through life always two steps behind himself.
2002 H. Smith Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch vii. 109 I got a go-cup from the cabinet, popped a plastic tray of ice into it, then filled it with artificially sweetened tea.
2006 Time Out N.Y. 20 July 20/1 In some parts of our country—most famously, New Orleans, home of the go-cup—you can take your drink with you when you leave a bar.
go-fever n. colloquial a strong feeling of restlessness or longing for travel.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > [noun] > desire or fondness for
go-fever1875
travel sickness1894
trek fever1897
wanderlust1902
travel bug1907
wander-spirit1927
1875 W. Taylor Four Years' Campaign in India xvi. 202 Shaw..took a ‘go-fever’, similar to that which carried the Prodigal Son to a far country; so he..went to India.
1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed viii. 147 He's as restless as a swallow in autumn... He has the beginnings of the go-fever upon him.
1907 N. Munro Daft Days xxiv. 211 I'd not been twenty minutes in her society before I found out she had the go-fever pretty bad.
1966 Word Study Dec. 2/1 ‘Everyone I think sort of gets go-fever,’ Colonel Glenn was heard to remark at his news conference.
1991 P. Caputo Means of Escape i. 1 I am talking about restlessness, go-fever—call it whatever you like.
C2. With adverbs.
go-about n. †(a) something which encircles or encompasses another (obsolete rare); (b) U.S. (now historical) a person who wanders or roams about; a hobo.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Entourure, a compasse..any thing that compasseth, and incloseth another; a goe-about.
1890 E. W. Gilliam 1791 xv. 272 The slaves, of nights, being notorious go-abouts.
1915 Internat. Socialist Rev. Dec. 345/2 An old barn or a filthy vermin-infested bunk-car is good enough for the ‘pesky go-abouts’ who takes [sic] up the harvesting or threshing.
1975 N. Anderson Amer. Hobo iv. 51 He was an elderly man and a skinner, an old go-about.
go-alone adj. †(a) designating a type of plough requiring little guidance from the ploughman (obsolete); (b) characterized by independent action; = go-it-alone adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > [adjective] > not influenced by others
self-lived1642
self-governed1709
self-guided1733
independent1735
uninfluenced1735
sole1747
go-alone1807
autonomic1810
maverick1886
go-it-alone1895
1807 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Essex I. v. 143 Mr. Newman uses the skim coulter constantly... I saw it working well on his farm, attached to his Go-alone plough.
1847 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 181/2 Go-alone plough for light land.
1922 O. W. Smith Bk. of Pike xii. 164 My rod-holder, a simple contrivance, which is of utmost worth to the go-alone fisherman.
2004 J. Koppenjan & E.-H. Klijn Managing Uncertainties in Networks ii. 50 A go-alone strategy triggers conflictual strategies.
go-anywhere adj. able to go anywhere or withstand any conditions; of or relating to this ability; (also of a ticket or pass) that allows one to go anywhere.
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1902 Woman's Missionary Friend July 234/1 There is yet room in the mission field for the ‘go-anywhere’ candidate.
1929 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 19 Oct. 724/2 Using only one gallon of fuel for every 40-50 miles, it has shown itself to be a ‘go anywhere’ car.
1966 G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising xv. 139 The go-anywhere Electrolux 16 refrigerator.
1995 N. Whittaker Platform Souls (1996) xi. 107 I had this mad fantasy that..I'd be..rewarded by British Rail with a go-anywhere ticket for the rest of my days.
2000 Evening Herald (Plymouth) (Nexis) 10 Nov. Suppl. 10 (caption) The Suzuki Ignis has a high driving position and go-anywhere credentials.
go-before n. now rare †(a) a harbinger, an usher (obsolete); (b) that which goes before or precedes something; a precursor.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [noun] > announcer or proclaimer > harbinger or usher
heraldc1330
forayer1340
forager1377
foregangera1500
usher1548
harbingera1550
avant-courier1603
go-before1633
1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts i. ii. sig. B4v You thinke you haue spoke wisely goodman Amble, My Ladie's goe-before.
1672 J. Eachard Mr. Hobbs's State Nature Considered 21 Let people call the two first Propositions either plainly Propositions, or Ingredients or Elements, or Premises, or Principles, or Preambles, or Prologues, or go befores, or particulars, or any thing else.
1883 W. Whitman Specimen Days in Specimen Days & Collect 8 You ask for items, details of my early life... You say you want to get at these details mainly as the go-befores and embryons of ‘Leaves of Grass’.
1989 Gourmet Aug. 40/1 Logistics for the go-befores and the go-along-withs can often seem haphazard.
† go-free n. Obsolete rare a type of envelope printed with a stamp allowing an item of mail to be sent without charge.
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1838 London & Westm. Rev. Apr. 250 It was to defeat this system of evasion that Mr Charles Whiting, of Beaufort House, urged upon the Government, eight years ago, the adoption of his stamped envelopes or ‘Go-frees’.
1885 E. Edwards in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 585/1 Stamped wrappers for newspapers were made experimentally in London by Mr. Charles Whiting under the name of ‘go-frees’, in 1830.
go-it-alone adj. characterized by or advocating independent action; cf. to go it alone at Phrases 1b(a)(ii), go-alone adj.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > [adjective] > not influenced by others
self-lived1642
self-governed1709
self-guided1733
independent1735
uninfluenced1735
sole1747
go-alone1807
autonomic1810
maverick1886
go-it-alone1895
1895 Jrnl. Banking July 85 There is not even a remote possibility that the United States will ever try free coinage on the go-it-alone plan.
1934 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 28 415 If we were forced..to undertake a domestic price rise on a ‘go it alone’ basis, we had to let the exchange rates go.
1961 Daily Tel. 27 Apr. 19/5 A ‘go-it-alone’ British space programme would be a waste of scarce scientific manpower and resources.
2004 New Yorker 28 June 54/3 The Administration..finally attempted to change its go-it-alone policy, and set June 30th as the date for the handover of sovereignty to an interim government.
go-no-further n. (also go-no-farther) a variety of apple having fairly large fruit with yellow and purplish-red skin.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > apple > [noun] > eating-apple > types of
costardc1390
bitter-sweet1393
Queening?1435
richardine?1435
blaundrellc1440
pear apple1440
tuberc1440
quarrendenc1450
birtle1483
deusan1570
apple-john1572
Richard1572
lording1573
greening1577
queen apple1579
peeler1580
darling1584
doucin1584
golding1589
puffin1589
lady's longing1591
bitter-sweeting1597
pearmain1597
paradise apple1598
garden globe1600
gastlet1600
leather-coat1600
maligar1600
pome-paradise1601
French pippin1629
gillyflower1629
king apple1635
lady apple1651
golden pippin1654
goldling1655
puff1655
cardinal1658
green fillet1662
chestnut1664
cinnamon apple1664
fenouil1664
go-no-further1664
Westbury apple1664
seek-no-farther1670
nonsuch1676
calville1691
passe-pomme1691
fennel apple1699
queen1699
genet1706
fig-apple1707
oaken pin1707
nonpareil1726
costing1731
monstrous reinette1731
Newtown pippin1760
Ribston1782
Rhode Island greening1795
oslin1801
fall pippin1803
monstrous pippin1817
Newtown Spitzenburg1817
Gravenstein1821
Red Astrachan1822
Tolman sweet1822
grange apple1823
orange pippin1823
Baldwin1826
Sturmer Pippin1831
Newtowner1846
Northern Spy1847
Blenheim Orange1860
Cox1860
McIntosh Red1876
Worcester1877
raspberry apple1894
delicious1898
Laxton's Superb1920
Macoun1924
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > eating-apple > types of
costardc1390
bitter-sweet1393
pippin?1435
pomewater?1435
Queening?1435
richardine?1435
blaundrellc1440
pear apple1440
tuberc1440
quarrendenc1450
birtle1483
sweeting1530
pomeroyal1534
renneta1568
deusan1570
apple-john1572
Richard1572
lording1573
russeting1573
greening1577
queen apple1579
peeler1580
reinette1582
darling1584
doucin1584
golding1589
puffin1589
lady's longing1591
bitter-sweeting1597
pearmain1597
paradise apple1598
garden globe1600
gastlet1600
leather-coat1600
maligar1600
pomeroy1600
short-start1600
jenneting1601
pome-paradise1601
russet coat1602
John apple1604
honey apple1611
honeymeal1611
musk apple1611
short-shank1611
spice apple1611
French pippin1629
king apple1635
lady apple1651
golden pippin1654
goldling1655
puff1655
cardinal1658
renneting1658
green fillet1662
chestnut1664
cinnamon apple1664
fenouil1664
go-no-further1664
reinetting1664
Westbury apple1664
seek-no-farther1670
nonsuch1676
white-wining1676
russet1686
calville1691
fennel apple1699
queen1699
genet1706
fig-apple1707
oaken pin1707
musk1708
nonpareil1726
costing1731
monstrous reinette1731
Newtown pippin1760
Ribston1782
Rhode Island greening1795
oslin1801
wine apple1802
fall pippin1803
monstrous pippin1817
Newtown Spitzenburg1817
Gravenstein1821
Red Astrachan1822
Tolman sweet1822
grange apple1823
orange pippin1823
Baldwin1826
wine-sap1826
Jonathan1831
Sturmer Pippin1831
rusty-coat1843
Newtowner1846
Northern Spy1847
Cornish gilliflowerc1850
Blenheim Orange1860
Cox1860
nutmeg pippin1860
McIntosh Red1876
Worcester1877
raspberry apple1894
delicious1898
Laxton's Superb1920
Melba apple1928
Melba1933
Mutsu1951
Newtown1953
discovery1964
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 80 in Sylva Apples. Rousetting..the Go-no-further, or Cats-head.
1707 J. Pechey Compl. Herbal (ed. 2) 6/2 Go-no-farther or Cat's Head.
1855 A. Manning Old Chelsea Bun-house xiv. 228 The large Cat's-head Apples that some call ‘Go-no-farther’.
2010 C. L. Calhoun Old Southern Apples (ed. 2) 96/1 Go-no-further, an old West Virginia apple found in 1994 by the late Dr. L. R. Littleton.
† go-out n. Obsolete rare a tidal sluice in an embankment; = gout n.2 2. [Probably an alteration (by reinterpretation) of gout n.2, after to go out at Phrasal verbs 1; compare gout, variant of to go out.]
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 996/2 Go-out (Hydraulic engineering), a sluice in an embankment for allowing water to escape from tidal lands when the tide is out.
† go-well n. slang Obsolete rare a prosperous outward journey.
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1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew ii. sig. F3 Now bowse a round health to the Go-well and Com-well Of Cisley Bumtrincket that lies in the Strummel.
C3. With prepositional phrases.
go-at-it adj. rare full of energy, vitality, or determination.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective]
sprindeOE
livelyOE
kaskc1300
wightc1300
courageousc1386
wighty14..
wieldya1413
ablec1440
tall of hand1530
sappy1558
energical1565
energetical1585
greenya1586
stout1600
strenuous1602
forceful?1624
actuous1626
vigorous1638
vivid1638
high-spirited1653
hearty1665
actuose1677
living1699
full-blooded1707
executive1708
rugged1731
sousing1735
energic1740
bouncing1743
two-fisted1774
energetic1782
zestful1797
rollicking1801
through-ganging1814
throughgoing1814
slashing1828
high-powered1829
high pressure1834
rip-roaring1834
red-blooded1836
ripsnorting1846
zesty1853
dynamic1856
throbbing1864
goey1875
torpedoic1893
kinky1903
zippy1903
go-at-it1904
punchy1907
up-and-at-'em1909
driving1916
vibranta1929
kinetic1931
zinging1931
high-octane1936
zingy1938
slam-bang1939
balls-to-the-wall1967
balls-out1968
ass-kicking1977
hi-octane1977
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)]
twig1573
to go at ——1675
to go it1794
to come it1796
to lay it on thick1806
to blaze away1826
bushwhack1837
steam1842
split1844
rustle1882
to work like a demon1884
yank1888
go-at-it1904
to go somea1911
to put a jerk in it1919
to go (also do) one's (also a) dinger1923
to work (etc.) one's ass off1924
to go to town1933
to gie (or give) it laldy1974
1904 Daily Chron. 27 June 7/2 They are a versatile, well-balanced, go-at-it side, and they field as if they like it.
go-by-(the)-ground n. and adj. now rare (a) n. something that creeps along the ground; (frequently derogatory) a creeping, cringing person; (also) a small person or thing; (b) adj. cringing, creeping; small, low. [Attested earlier as a surname: Radulfus Gobithegrund (1238), Julian' Gobegrund (1296).]
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the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [adjective]
go-by-ground?a1300
thrall1398
abjectc1430
manly?c1430
servicious1440
serviceable1483
servile1537
tame1563
slavish1565
demiss1572
submissive1572
cringing1579
fawning1585
incrouching?1593
vassal1594
scraping1599
obsequious1602
spaniel1606
observing1609
deprostrate1610
supplea1616
vernile1623
shrugging1629
wormy1640
compliable1641
thrall-like1641
obeisant1642
inservient1646
truckling1656
cringeling1693
benecking1705
subservient1714
footman-like1776
bingeing1805
sidling1821
toadying1863
crawlsome1904
toadyish1909
crawling1941
ass-kissing1942
the world > movement > progressive motion > moving along with hands and feet or with body prone > [adjective] > creeping or crawling
creepingc1000
go-by-ground?a1300
crawlinga1400
rampinga1500
reptile1607
humiserpent1641
reptant1670
reptitious1742
acrawl1834
the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > person
dwarfeOE
congeonc1230
go-by-ground?a1300
smalla1300
shrimpc1386
griga1400
gruba1400
murche1440
nirvil1440
mitinga1450
witherling1528
wretchocka1529
elf1530
hop-o'-my-thumb1530
pygmy1533
little person1538
manikin1540
mankin1552
dandiprat1556
yrle1568
grundy1570
Jack Sprat1570
squall1570
manling1573
Tom Thumb1579
pinka1585
squib1586
screaling1594
giant-dwarf1598
twattle1598
agate1600
minimus1600
cock sparrow1602
dapperling1611
modicum1611
scrub1611
sesquipedalian1615
dwarflinga1618
wretchcock1641
homuncio1643
whip-handle1653
homuncule1656
whippersnapper1674
chitterling1675
sprite1684
carliea1689
urling1691
wirling1691
dwarf man1699
poppet1699
durgan1706
short-arse1706
tomtit1706
Lilliputian1726
wallydraigle1736
midge1757
minikin1761
squeeze-crab1785
minimum1796
niff-naff1808
titman1818
teetotum1822
squita1825
cradden1825
nyaff1825
weed1825
pinkeen1850
fingerling1864
Lilliput1867
thumbling1867
midget1869
inch1884
shorty1888
titch1888
skimpling1890
stub1890
scrap1898
pygmoid1922
lofty1933
peewee1935
smidgen1952
pint-size1954
pint-sized1973
munchkin1974
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > low carriage
go-by-ground?a1300
?a1300 Names Hare (Digby 86) in Proc. Leeds Philos. & Lit. Soc. (1935) 6 350 He shal saien..in þe worshipe of þe hare..‘Þe gobigrounde, þe sittestille, þe pintail.’
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 384 b Creeping yet lyke a seely goebyground.
1595 A. Copley Wits Fittes & Fancies 202 Indeed sir..I had need haue two eyes, to discerne so pettie a goe by ground as you.
1657 J. D. in J. Poole Eng. Parnassus sig. E4 Swathed, cradled, go-by-ground, soon-pleased.
1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα iv. xvii. 521 Would any thing..be more..despicable in the eyes of the people..than..such Go-by-ground Governours.
1696 P. A. Motteux Love's a Jest v. 73 A tidy Skip, a little tiny go-by-ground, not passin [sic] thus high.
1781 C. Dibdin Marriage Act ii. 36 What!—Is this the little ugly draggle-tail'd go-by-the-ground, that has been taken for me?
1797 M. Robinson Walsingham III. 176 A go-by-the-ground, with two wheels, just for all the world like a cart.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. iv. ix. 184 He was a little go-by-the-ground, scarcely up to my shoulders.
1873 Peep through Home-Rule Spectacles 26 The inconvenience and expense of this state of things..have attracted the observations of Ireland's only legal periodical, the moderate, go-by-the-ground Solicitors' Journal.
1959 E. Phillpotts There was Old Man ii. 19 Merle herself was a little go-by-the-ground creature quite as pretty as Rosa, but not so pushing and showy and ambitious and clever as her.
† go-through-land n. Scottish Obsolete a vagabond.
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1828 Clerk Tamas in P. Buchan Anc. Ballads & Songs N. Scotl. I. 45 Wou'd I forsake my ain gude lord, And follow you, a gae-through-land?
† go-to-bed n. Obsolete a person who is sleepy or ready to go to bed; a person who goes to bed early. [Attested earlier as a surname: Johannes Gotebedde (c1273).]
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1756 Compl. Let.-writer (ed. 2) iv. xxxvi. 170 The crowd of Go-to-Beds had taken themselves away.
1833 C. Lamb Newspapers 35 Years Ago in Last Ess. Elia 158 We were no go-to-beds with the lamb.
go-to-bed-at-noon n. English regional goat's beard, Tragopogon pratensis (family Asteraceae), the flowers of which close at midday; also called Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon.
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1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xvii. 167 This hearbe is now called..in English Goates bearde..and Go to bedde at Noone.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 595 It shutteth it selfe at twelue of the clocke..wherupon it was called Go to bed at noone.
1759 B. Stillingfleet in tr. Misc. Tracts Nat. Hist. 41 (note) One plant is so remarkable for this property, that it is generally known in our countrey by the name of go-to-bed-at-noon.
1858 Ballou's Dollar Monthly Mag. Dec. 588/1 It has received the common name of ‘Go-to-bed-at-noon’, and, in many districts of England the farmers' boys are said to regulate their dinner hour by the closing of the goats-beard.
1961 Bios 32 10 Without question, there is aesthetic appeal in such flower names as Go-to-bed-at-noon, Jack-of-the-Butteries, [etc.].
go-to-sleep adj. (a) idle, inactive (rare); (b) of or relating to the action of going to sleep.
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1909 Athenæum 26 June 750/1 Settle down to a go-to-sleep life, I could not.
1994 J. Barth Once upon Time 62 Some deep-grained distaste for..emotional extremity and bravura action intimidates, numbs, restrains me—particularly..when I'm in the go-to-sleep mode.
2014 B. Mcquade tr. G. Diem-Wille Young Children & Parents 124 It is recommended..to develop a go-to-sleep ritual with the baby after feeding.
† go-within-each-other adj. Obsolete rare designating a set of boxes of different sizes, each designed to fit into the next largest.
ΚΠ
1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 2 The go-within-each-other boxes, my camera.
C4. With verbs.
go-stop adj. Economics of or relating to an economic system or situation characterized by alternating periods of inflation and deflation; cf. stop-go adj.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [adjective] > of or relating to specific policies or actions
imperial1726
co-operative1821
protectionist1844
inflationist1876
rational1915
deflationist1921
rationalist1942
producer-oriented1946
redistributionist1949
substantivist1956
supply side1957
demand-pull1958
tax-and-spend1960
stop-and-go1961
stop-go1962
go-stop1964
supply-driven1973
demand-side1975
supply side1976
demand-driven1980
1964 Punch 21 Oct. 591/2 The damage done by ‘go-stop’ economics.
1965 New Statesman 5 Nov. 680/2 The natural ‘go-stop’ cycle of the capitalist economy.
1999 H. H. Wang China's Oil Industry & Market 47 While the economic ‘go-stop’ cycle of the past is unavoidable, the prospects of economic growth are bright.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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