单词 | gone-by |
释义 | gone-byadj.n. A. adj. = bygone adj. (in various senses); esp. past, over and done with, former. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > [adjective] formerc1160 apassedc1314 past1340 preterite1340 eldera1400 elderna1400 eldernlya1400 bygone1424 bypast1452 ancient1490 by-runa1522 bywenta1522 spent1528 departed1552 forepassed1557 preter1578 by-come1592 worn-out1594 preterlapsed1599 foregone1609 worna1616 elapseda1644 lapsed1702 surpassed1725 gone-by1758 back1808 old-time1865 by-flown1884 1758 D. Garrick Florizel & Perdita i. 4 Weep not now, Paulina, so long-gone-by misfortunes. 1766 J. Cunningham Poems 34 He can behold..The mighty blessings of the year gone by. 1827 G. H. Taylor Excurs. Village Curate 70 Something like an old gone-by companion. 1832 F. Trollope Domest. Manners Amer. (ed. 2) I. xiv. 225 Gone-by relics of the dark ages. 1849 D. Rock Church of our Fathers IV. xii. 241 The belief, and..ritual, of gone-by ages. 1909 Long Island Agronomist 2 June May..has this year merely equalled the average in temperature of gone by Mays. 1935 J. F. Crowell Cape Cod Byways 38/2 Here dwelt the famous Whelden sisters, superior teachers of a gone-by generation. 2005 S. Pile Real Cities 171 Tragedies and traumas that ought to be dead and buried, consigned to a gone-by past. B. n. A person who or thing which has gone by (in various senses of to go by at go v. Phrasal verbs 1); = bygone n. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > [noun] > past events or offences yesterdaysc1400 bygones1568 gone-by1828 1828 La Belle Assemblée Aug. 71/2 What has become of Mrs. Barley?..Surely it is not that she is ‘a gone-by’ from age. 1859 W. Chadwick Life De Foe vii. 342 You cannot let gone-byes be gone-byes quietly. 1904 Light Aug. 495/1 That device [sc. the coal-stove] is likely to become a thing of the past in many regions, as the wood-stove is now one of the gone-byes. 1922 ‘E. Barrington’ ‘The Ladies!’ iv. 135 Mrs Gunning greeted it [sc. the rumour] with pleasure, regarding Mr Harry as a gone-by and much below her hopes. 2005 W. H. Keith Retief's Peace iv. 103 Return my yacht to the Farm, and we shall let gone-byes be gone-byes! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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