get (pa. t. “got,” in Per. II. ii. 6 “gat” to rhyme with “at,” pa. pple. “got,” also “gotten”)
1.
intr. to gain
1H6 IV. iii. 32
“we lose, they . . .
get.”
2.
to get knowledge of,
learn, ascertain Gent. II. v.
40, Wint. IV. i. [ii.] 55,
Ham. III. i. 2
“Get from him why he
puts on this confusion.”
3.
to beget (freq.); in
John I. i. 259
“to get”
=to be begotten; absol.
Ven. 168
“to get it is thy
duty.”
∥ The foll. uses are recorded first from
S.: senses 1 and 2 above, ‘acquire (a custom
or quality)’ Cym. IV. ii.
236, Sonn. lxxviii. 3; ‘catch (an illness)’ Tp. II. ii. 70; “have got”=possess Tim. I. ii. 26; “get thee gone”
Err. III. i. 84; ‘become,’ with an adj. complement Mer.V. I. i. 135; “get aboard”
Err. IV. iv. 160, Wint. III. iii. 7; “get back”
Ant. III. xi. [xiii.] 139; “get
off”=escape Cor. II. i.
143; “get
on”=put on 2H4 V. iii.
134, Mac. II. ii. 71.
