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单词 gone-by
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gone-byadj.n.

Brit. /ˌɡɒnˈbʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈɡɔnˈbaɪ/, /ˈɡɑnˈbaɪ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: English gone , go v., by adv.
Etymology: < gone, past participle of go v. + by adv., after to go by at go v. Phrasal verbs 1. Compare earlier bygone adj. and (with the use as noun) bygone n. Compare also earlier predicative use of gone by (see to go by 1 at go v. Phrasal verbs 1).
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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