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<p><b>2.</b> <def>To cause; to make; -- with an infinitive.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>My lord Abbot of Westminster <b>did</b> do shewe to me late certain evidences. <i>W. Caxton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I shall . . . your cloister do make. <i>Piers Plowman.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A fatal plague which many <b>did</b> to die. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>We <b>do</b> you to wit [<it>i. e.</it>, We <b>make</b> you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia. <i>2 Cor. viii. 1.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; We have lost the idiom shown by the citations (<i>do</i> used like the French <i>faire</i> or <i>laisser</i>), in which the verb in the infinitive apparently, but not really, has a passive signification, <it>i. e.</it>, cause . . . to be made.</note>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To bring about; to produce, as an effect or result; to effect; to achieve.</def>

<blockquote>The neglecting it may <b>do</b> much danger. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He waved indifferently' twixt <b>doing</b> them neither good not harm. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To perform, as an action; to execute; to transact to carry out in action; <as>as, to <ex>do</ex> a good or a bad act; <ex>do</ex> our duty; to <ex>do</ex> what I can.</as></def>

<blockquote>Six days shalt thou labor and <b>do</b> all thy work. <i>Ex. xx. 9.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>We did not <b>do</b> these things. <i>Ld. Lytton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>You can not <b>do</b> wrong without suffering wrong. <i>Emerson.</i></blockquote>

Hence: <i>To do homage</i>, <i>honor</i>, <i>favor</i>, <i>justice</i>, etc., to render homage, honor, etc.

<p><b>5.</b> <def>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 <i>done</i>.</def> "Ere summer half be <i>done</i>." "I have <i>done</i> weeping."

<i>Shak.</i>

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<p><b>6.</b> <def>To make ready for an object, purpose, or use, as food by cooking; to cook completely or sufficiently; <as>as, the meat is <ex>done</ex> on one side only</as>.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>To put or bring into a form, state, or condition, especially in the phrases, <i>to do death</i>, to put to death; to slay; <i>to do away</i> (often do <i>away with</i>), to put away; to remove; <i>to do on</i>, to put on; to don; <i>to do off</i>, to take off, as dress; to doff; <i>to do into</i>, to put into the form of; to translate or transform into, as a text.</def>

<blockquote><b>Done to death</b> by slanderous tongues. <i> Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The ground of the difficulty is <b>done away</b>. <i> Paley.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Suspicions regarding his loyalty were entirely <b>done away</b>. <i>Thackeray.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>To <b>do on</b> our own harness, that we may not; but we must <b>do on</b> the armor of God. <i> Latimer.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Then Jason rose and <b>did on</b> him a fair Blue woolen tunic. <i> W. Morris (Jason).</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Though the former legal pollution be now <b>done off</b>, yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as much to be shunned. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>It ["Pilgrim's Progress"] has been <b>done into</b> verse: it has been <b>done into</b> modern English. <i> Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>To cheat; to gull; to overreach.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<blockquote>He was not be <b>done</b>, at his time of life, by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent. <i> De Quincey.</i></blockquote>