Message-ID: <25580498.1075862387223.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 00:00:00 -0800 (PST) From: doctor@dictionary.com To: wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com Subject: forgo: Dictionary.com Word of the Day Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Doctor Dictionary X-To: Dictionary.com Word of the Day X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \SPEREIR (Non-Privileged)\Pereira, Susan W.\Deleted Items X-Origin: Pereira-S X-FileName: SPEREIR (Non-Privileged).pst =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Visit OfficeMax.com this holiday season for gifts that work and low prices that make a difference. While shopping, you can save $10 off your next $100 purchase. Save more today on hundreds of gift ideas. Click here for full details: http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/37386/115448/115448 AOL users click here =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Word of the Day for Saturday November 24, 2001: forgo \for-GO\, transitive verb: Inflected forms: forwent, forgone, forgoing, forgoes To abstain from; to do without. This one has given up smoking today, I knew; that one his weekly visit to the cafe, another will forgo her favorite foods. --Joanne Harris, [1]Chocolat If my deepest wish is to sit on a beach in Maine fishing for bass, I might cheerfully forgo stock options in Microsoft to do it. --Alan Ryan, "It's Not Easy Being Equal," [2]New York Times, June 18, 2000 As much as I wanted to forgo college and head straight to New York to become an actress, my father said that all knowledge would serve me and that the more I knew the more I could bring to my work. --Jane Alexander, Command Performance _________________________________________________________ Forgo derives from Old English forgan, "to go without, to forgo," from for-, "without" + gan, "to go." References 1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/014100018X/lexico 2. http://www.nytimes.com/ _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: susan.w.pereira@enron.com To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-WordoftheDay@lists.lexico.com To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-wordoftheday-301289Q@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ (C) 2001, Lexico LLC.