fulldo
English
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editFromMiddle Englishfuldon, fromOld Englishfuldōn(“to complete, perform; arrange”), fromProto-West Germanic*fulladōn(“to do fully, fulfil, complete, perfect”), equivalent tofull- +do. Cognate withWest Frisianfoldwaan,Dutchvoldoen,German Low Germanvulldoon,Germanvolltun(“to fulldo”).
Verb
editfulldo (third-person singular simple presentfulldoes,present participlefulldoing,simple pastfulldid,past participlefulldone)
- (transitive) Toaccomplish;fulfill;complete.
- 1591, Thomas Lodge,Robert the Deuyll:
- "[...] and no more to counterfeyte the fole, for it is Goddis wyll and commaundement, for he hath forgyuen you all your synnes, for by caus ye haue made satysfacyon andfull done your penaunce:"[…]
- 1655, Richard Verstegan,A restitution of decayed intelligence in antiquities:
- Yet willing tofull-do their too-falne lot[…]
- 1835, James Justinian Morier,Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan, in England:
- "Then," said the ambassador to the carpet-spreader, "Taki, by my head, is that all? you, who ought to be afulldone man, do I hear this of you?
- 2002, Kurt H. Wolff,A Whole, a Fragment:
- How is it that I feel that I may not yet write it? I can answer only: because here I amfull doing but not with that one.
- 2012, Yahoo! Canada Answers,Is Jesus God? Did Jesus ever claim to be God?:
- The most key why that Jesus has to be God is that if He is not God, His death would not have beenfuldoing to yield the penalty for the sins of the world (1 John 2:2).
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