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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
do \do\ (d[=oo]), v. t. or auxiliary. [imp. did (d[i^]d); p.
p. done (d[u^]n); p. pr. & vb. n. Doing (d[=oo]"[i^]ng).
This verb, when transitive, is formed in the indicative,
present tense, thus: I do, thou doest (d[=oo]"[e^]st) or dost
(d[u^]st), he does (d[u^]z), doeth (d[=oo]"[e^]th), or doth
(d[u^]th); when auxiliary, the second person is, thou dost.
As an independent verb, dost is obsolete or rare, except in
poetry. ``What dost thou in this world?'' --Milton. The form
doeth is a verb unlimited, doth, formerly so used, now being
the auxiliary form. The second pers, sing., imperfect tense,
is didst (d[i^]dst), formerly didest (d[i^]d"[e^]st).] [AS.
d[=o]n; akin to D. doen, OS. duan, OHG. tuon, G. thun, Lith.
deti, OSlav. d[=e]ti, OIr. d['e]nim I do, Gr. tiqe`nai to
put, Skr. dh[=a], and to E. suffix -dom, and prob. to L.
facere to do, E. fact, and perh. to L. -dere in some
compounds, as addere to add, credere to trust. [root]65. Cf.
Deed, Deem, Doom, Fact, Creed, Theme.]
1. To place; to put. [Obs.] --Tale of a Usurer (about 1330).
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2. To cause; to make; -- with an infinitive. [Obs.]
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My lord Abbot of Westminster did do shewe to me late
certain evidences. --W. Caxton.
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I shall . . . your cloister do make. --Piers
Plowman.
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A fatal plague which many did to die. --Spenser.
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We do you to wit [i. e., We make you to know] of the
grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia.
--2 Cor. viii.
1.
Note: We have lost the idiom shown by the citations (do used
like the French faire or laisser), in which the verb in
the infinitive apparently, but not really, has a
passive signification, i. e., cause . . . to be made.
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3. To bring about; to produce, as an effect or result; to
effect; to achieve.
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The neglecting it may do much danger. --Shak.
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He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither
good not harm. --Shak.
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4. To perform, as an action; to execute; to transact to carry
out in action; as, to do a good or a bad act; do our duty;
to do what I can.
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Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work. --Ex.
xx. 9.
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We did not do these things. --Ld. Lytton.
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You can not do wrong without suffering wrong.
--Emerson.
Hence: To do homage, honor, favor, justice, etc., to
render homage, honor, etc.
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5. To bring to an end by action; to perform completely; to
finish; to accomplish; -- a sense conveyed by the
construction, which is that of the past participle done.
``Ere summer half be done.'' ``I have done weeping.''
--Shak.
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6. To make ready for an object, purpose, or use, as food by
cooking; to cook completely or sufficiently; as, the meat
is done on one side only.
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7. To put or bring into a form, state, or condition,
especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death;
to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to
remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take
off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form
of; to translate or transform into, as a text.
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Done to death by slanderous tongues. -- Shak.
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The ground of the difficulty is done away. -- Paley.
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Suspicions regarding his loyalty were entirely done
away. --Thackeray.
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To do on our own harness, that we may not; but we
must do on the armor of God. -- Latimer.
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Then Jason rose and did on him a fair
Blue woolen tunic. -- W. Morris
(Jason).
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Though the former legal pollution be now done off,
yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as
much to be shunned. --Milton.
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It [``Pilgrim's Progress''] has been done into
verse: it has been done into modern English. --
Macaulay.
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8. To cheat; to gull; to overreach. [Colloq.]
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He was not be done, at his time of life, by
frivolous offers of a compromise that might have
secured him seventy-five per cent. -- De Quincey.
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9. To see or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of
interest. [Colloq.]
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10. (Stock Exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a
bill or note.
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11. To perform work upon, about, for, or at, by way of caring
for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in
order, or the like.
The sergeants seem to do themselves pretty well.
--Harper's
Mag.
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12. To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to
ruin; to do for. [Colloq. or Slang]
Sometimes they lie in wait in these dark streets,
and fracture his skull, . . . or break his arm, or
cut the sinew of his wrist; and that they call
doing him. --Charles
Reade.
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Note:
(a) Do and did are much employed as auxiliaries, the verb
to which they are joined being an infinitive. As an
auxiliary the verb do has no participle. ``I do set
my bow in the cloud.'' --Gen. ix. 13. [Now archaic or
rare except for emphatic assertion.]
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Rarely . . . did the wrongs of individuals to
the knowledge of the public. -- Macaulay.
(b) They are often used in emphatic construction. ``You
don't say so, Mr. Jobson. -- but I do say so.'' --Sir
W. Scott. ``I did love him, but scorn him now.''
--Latham.
(c) In negative and interrogative constructions, do and
did are in common use. I do not wish to see them;
what do you think? Did C[ae]sar cross the Tiber? He
did not. ``Do you love me?'' --Shak.
(d) Do, as an auxiliary, is supposed to have been first
used before imperatives. It expresses entreaty or
earnest request; as, do help me. In the imperative
mood, but not in the indicative, it may be used with
the verb to be; as, do be quiet. Do, did, and done
often stand as a general substitute or representative
verb, and thus save the repetition of the principal
verb. ``To live and die is all we have to do.''
--Denham. In the case of do and did as auxiliaries,
the sense may be completed by the infinitive (without
to) of the verb represented. ``When beauty lived and
died as flowers do now.'' --Shak. ``I . . . chose my
wife as she did her wedding gown.'' --Goldsmith.
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My brightest hopes giving dark fears a being.
As the light does the shadow. -- Longfellow.
In unemphatic affirmative sentences do is, for the
most part, archaic or poetical; as, ``This just
reproach their virtue does excite.'' --Dryden.
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To do one's best, To do one's diligence (and the like),
to exert one's self; to put forth one's best or most or
most diligent efforts. ``We will . . . do our best to gain
their assent.'' --Jowett (Thucyd.).
To do one's business, to ruin one. [Colloq.] --Wycherley.
To do one shame, to cause one shame. [Obs.]
To do over.
(a) To make over; to perform a second time.
(b) To cover; to spread; to smear. ``Boats . . . sewed
together and done over with a kind of slimy stuff
like rosin.'' --De Foe.
To do to death, to put to death. (See 7.) [Obs.]
To do up.
(a) To put up; to raise. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
(b) To pack together and envelop; to pack up.
(c) To accomplish thoroughly. [Colloq.]
(d) To starch and iron. ``A rich gown of velvet, and a
ruff done up with the famous yellow starch.''
--Hawthorne.
To do way, to put away; to lay aside. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
To do with, to dispose of; to make use of; to employ; --
usually preceded by what. ``Men are many times brought to
that extremity, that were it not for God they would not
know what to do with themselves.'' --Tillotson.
To have to do with, to have concern, business or
intercourse with; to deal with. When preceded by what, the
notion is usually implied that the affair does not concern
the person denoted by the subject of have. ``Philology has
to do with language in its fullest sense.'' --Earle.
``What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? --2 Sam.
xvi. 10.
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6. To make ready for an object, purpose, or use, as food by
cooking; to cook completely or sufficiently; as, the meat
is done on one side only.
7. To put or bring into a form, state, or condition,
especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death;
to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to
remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take
off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form
of; to translate or transform into, as a text.
Done to death by slanderous tongues. -- Shak.
The ground of the difficulty is done away. -- Paley.
Suspicions regarding his loyalty were entirely done
away. --Thackeray.
To do on our own harness, that we may not; but we
must do on the armor of God. -- Latimer.
Then Jason rose and did on him a fair Blue woolen
tunic. -- W. Morris
(Jason).
Though the former legal pollution be now done off,
yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as
much to be shunned. --Milton.
It [``Pilgrim's Progress''] has been done into
verse: it has been done into modern English. --
Macaulay.
8. To cheat; to gull; to overreach. [Colloq.]
He was not be done, at his time of life, by
frivolous offers of a compromise that might have
secured him seventy-five per cent. -- De Quincey.
9. To see or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of
interest. [Colloq.]
10. (Stock Exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a
bill or note.
Note:
(a) Do and did are much employed as auxiliaries, the verb
to which they are joined being an infinitive. As an
auxiliary the verb do has no participle. ``I do set
my bow in the cloud.'' --Gen. ix. 13. [Now archaic or
rare except for emphatic assertion.]
Rarely . . . did the wrongs of individuals to
the knowledge of the public. -- Macaulay.
(b) They are often used in emphatic construction. ``You
don't say so, Mr. Jobson. -- but I do say so.'' --Sir
W. Scott. ``I did love him, but scorn him now.''
--Latham.
(c) In negative and interrogative constructions, do and
did are in common use. I do not wish to see them;
what do you think? Did C[ae]sar cross the Tiber? He
did not. ``Do you love me?'' --Shak.
(d) Do, as an auxiliary, is supposed to have been first
used before imperatives. It expresses entreaty or
earnest request; as, do help me. In the imperative
mood, but not in the indicative, it may be used with
the verb to be; as, do be quiet. Do, did, and done
often stand as a general substitute or representative
verb, and thus save the repetition of the principal
verb. ``To live and die is all we have to do.''
--Denham. In the case of do and did as auxiliaries,
the sense may be completed by the infinitive (without
to) of the verb represented. ``When beauty lived and
died as flowers do now.'' --Shak. ``I . . . chose my
wife as she did her wedding gown.'' --Goldsmith.
My brightest hopes giving dark fears a being.
As the light does the shadow. -- Longfellow.
In unemphatic affirmative sentences do is, for the
most part, archaic or poetical; as, ``This just
reproach their virtue does excite.'' --Dryden.
To do one's best, To do one's diligence (and the like),
to exert one's self; to put forth one's best or most or
most diligent efforts. ``We will . . . do our best to gain
their assent.'' --Jowett (Thucyd.).
To do one's business, to ruin one. [Colloq.] --Wycherley.
To do one shame, to cause one shame. [Obs.]
To do over.
(a) To make over; to perform a second time.
(b) To cover; to spread; to smear. ``Boats . . . sewed
together and done over with a kind of slimy stuff
like rosin.'' --De Foe.
To do to death, to put to death. (See 7.) [Obs.]
To do up.
(a) To put up; to raise. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
(b) To pack together and envelop; to pack up.
(c) To accomplish thoroughly. [Colloq.]
(d) To starch and iron. ``A rich gown of velvet, and a
ruff done up with the famous yellow starch.''
--Hawthorne.
To do way, to put away; to lay aside. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
To do with, to dispose of; to make use of; to employ; --
usually preceded by what. ``Men are many times brought to
that extremity, that were it not for God they would not
know what to do with themselves.'' --Tillotson.
To have to do with, to have concern, business or
intercourse with; to deal with. When preceded by what, the
notion is usually implied that the affair does not concern
the person denoted by the subject of have. ``Philology has
to do with language in its fullest sense.'' --Earle.
``What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? --2 Sam.
xvi. 10.
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