good adj. (all the ordinary senses are freq.; 6 (ii) is the most freq. meaning of “make good”)
1.
a conventional epithet
to titles of high rank
Wint. I. ii. 220
“At the queen's
entreaty,”
H8 III. i. 77
“ your
Graces,”
Cym. II. iii. 158
“She's my lady”
; hence freq., an epithet of courteous address
or respectful reference
Tp. I. i. 10
“
boatswain,”
Gent. I. ii. 115
“Be calm, wind,”
Wint. IV. iii. [iv.] 200
2.
comely
Per. IV. ii. 51
“She has a good
face.”
3.
in mildly
depreciative sense implying weakness or trustful
simplicity
H8 III. ii. 357
“good easy man.”
4.
able to fulfil his
engagements, financially sound, (hence) wealthy,
substantial Mer.V. I. iii. 12, 16, Cor. I. i. 16.
5.
absol. used
vocatively (cf. GOOD NOW) Tp. I. i.
3,
17
“Nay, good, be
patient,”
Rom. I. v. 8
“Good thou.”
6.
make good, (i) to carry into
effect, fulfil, perform Shr. Ind. i.
19, I. i. 74,
IV. ii. 115
“to make the matter
,”
2H6 V. i. 122, Cor. I. vi. 86,
Tim. I. ii. 205
“to make his wishes
,”
Ant. II. ii. 149; (ii)
to prove (a statement, charge) to be true,
substantiate R2 I. i. 4, Ham. I. ii. 210; (iii)
to show or prove (a person or thing) to be blameless
Mer.V. I. iii. 95,
Wint. II. iii. 60
“I . . . would by combat
make her ”
; (iv) to maintain, hold, defend (a position)
H8 V. iv. 58,
Cor. I. v. 12
“to make the city,”
Lr. I. i. 175, Cym. V. iii. 23.
