Part 4872

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Go</h1> <Xpage=634>

<hw>Go</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp.</tt> <er>Went</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. p.</tt> <er>Gone</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Going</er>. <i>Went</i> comes from the AS, <i>wendan</i>. See <er>Wend</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>gan</ets>, gon, AS. <ets>g\'ben</ets>, akin to D. <ets>gaan</ets>, G. <ets>gehn</ets>, <ets>gehen</ets>, OHG. <ets>g<?/n</ets>, <ets>g\'ben</ets>, SW. <ets>g&adeg;</ets>, Dan. <ets>gaae</ets>; cf. Gr. <?/ to reach, overtake, Skr. <ets>h\'be</ets> to go, AS. <ets>gangan</ets>, and E. <ets>gang</ets>. The past tense in AS., <ets>eode</ets>, is from the root <ets>i</ets> to go, as is also Goth. <ets>iddja</ets> went. &root;47<it>a</it>. Cf. <er>Gang</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>, <er>Wend</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To pass from one place to another; to be in motion; to be in a state not motionless or at rest; to proced; to advance; to make progress; -- used, in various applications, of the movement of both animate and inanimate beings, by whatever means, and also of the movements of the mind; also figuratively applied.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To move upon the feet, or step by step; to walk; also, to walk step by step, or leisurely.</def>

<note>&hand; In old writers <i>go</i> is much used as opposed to <i>run</i>, or <i>ride</i>. "Whereso I <i>go</i> or <i>ride</i>."</note>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<blockquote>You know that love Will creep in service where it can not <b>go</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Thou must run to him; for thou hast staid so long that <b>going</b> will scarce serve the turn. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He fell from running to <b>going</b>, and from <b>going</b> to clambering upon his hands and his knees. <i>Bunyan.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; In Chaucer <i>go</i> is used frequently with the pronoun in the objective used reflexively; as, he <i>goeth</i> him home.</note>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To be passed on fron one to another; to pass; to circulate; hence, with <i>for</i>, to have currency; to be taken, accepted, or regarded.</def>

<blockquote>The man <b>went</b> among men for an old man in the days of Saul. <i>1 Sa. xvii. 12.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>[The money] should <b>go</b> according to its true value. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To proceed or happen in a given manner; to fare; to move on or be carried on; to have course; to come to an issue or result; to succeed; to turn out.</def>

<blockquote>How <b>goes</b> the night, boy ? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I think, as the world <b>goes</b>, he was a good sort of man enough. <i>Arbuthnot.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Whether the cause <b>goes</b> for me or against me, you must pay me the reward. <i>I Watts.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To proceed or tend toward a result, consequence, or product; to tend; to conduce; to be an ingredient; to avail; to apply; to contribute; -- often with the infinitive; <as>as, this <ex>goes</ex> to show</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Against right reason all your counsels <b>go</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>To master the foul flend there <b>goeth</b> some complement knowledge of theology. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>To apply one's self; to set one's self; to undertake.</def>

<blockquote>Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a resolute orator, he <b>went</b> not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood. <i>Sir P. Sidney.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; <i>Go</i>, in this sense, is often used in the present participle with the auxiliary verb <i>to be</i>, before an infinitive, to express a future of intention, or to denote design; as, I was <i>going</i> to say; I am <i>going</i> to begin harvest.</note>

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<p><b>7.</b> <def>To proceed by a mental operation; to pass in mind or by an act of the memory or imagination; -- generally with <i>over</i> or <i>through</i>.</def>

<blockquote>By <b>going</b> over all these particulars, you may receive some tolerable satisfaction about this great subject. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate.</def>