Chapter Divorceable to Docetic of D by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

does doeth or doth (duth); when auxiliary, the second person is, thou dost. As an independent verb, dost is obsolete or rare, except in poetry. "What dost thou in this world?" Milton. The form doeth is a verb unlimited, doth, formerly so used, now being the auxiliary form. The second pers, sing., imperfect tense, is didst formerly didest ] [AS. don; akin to D. doen, OS. duan, OHG. tuon, G. thun, Lith. deti, OSlav. deti, OIr. dénim I do, Gr. tiqe`nai to put, Skr. dha, and to E. suffix -dom, and prob. to L. facere to do, E. fact, and perh. to L. -dere in some compounds, as addere to add, credere to trust. &radic65. Cf. Deed, Deem, Doom, Fact, Creed, Theme.]

1. To place; to put. [Obs.] Tale of a Usurer

2. To cause; to make; — with an infinitive. [Obs.]

My lord Abbot of Westminster did do shewe to me late certain evidences.

W. Caxton.

I shall . . . your cloister do make.

Piers Plowman.

A fatal plague which many did to die.

Spenser.

We do you to wit [i. e., We make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia.

2 Cor. viii. 1.

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

3. To bring about; to produce, as an effect or result; to effect; to achieve.

The neglecting it may do much danger.

Shak.

He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good not harm.

Shak.

4. To perform, as an action; to execute; to transact to carry out in action; as, to do a good or a bad act; do our duty; to do what I can.

Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work.

Ex. xx. 9.

We did not do these things.

Ld. Lytton.

You can not do wrong without suffering wrong.

Emerson.

Hence: To do homage, honor, favor, justice, etc., to render homage, honor, etc.

5. 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 done. "Ere summer half be done." "I have done weeping." Shak.

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

7. To put or bring into a form, state, or condition, especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death; to slay; to do away to put away; to remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take off, as dress; to doff;