Forms as in GO. [f. A- prefix 1 forth, away, out + GO. Cogn. w. OS. âgangan, OHG. irgangan, irgân (mod.G. ergehen), Goth. us-gaggan. Only the pa. pple. agan, agon, agone, ago is common after 1300, and of this the verbal use ceased before 1700, leaving it only as adj. of time: see next.] 

    1. To go forth, go on, proceed.
 
  a1000 Ags. Ps. lxviii. 32 Cealf..eah e him úpp-agá horn on heafde. 1297 R. GLOUC. 561 Ich mai honge vp min ax, febliche ic abbe agonne.
 

    2. Of time: To depart, pass away, pass.
 
  c1000 O.E. Gosp. Mark xvi. 1 a sæternes dæ wæs agán. 1205 LAYAM. 24196 a æstre wes aonge. Ibid. 31889 a elleue er weoren onfast aeongen. c1380 Sir Ferumb. 2305 e day hym was ful ne agan. c1435 Torr. Portugal 65 Ore vij. yere be ago, More schalle we here. c1550 Every man in Hazl. Dodsley I. 107 The day passeth, and is almost ago.
 

    3. To go away, depart (from a place).
 
  c1175 Lamb. Hom. 33 Nis nawiht eos weorld, al heo ae. c1230 Ancren Riwle 288 Hit kume lihtliche, age awei lihtliche. c1260 E.E.P. (1862) 14 Al hir ioi was ago. c1384 CHAUCER H. Fame 365 He Was forthe vnto his shippes agoon. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. II. 379 And when thaire huske agooth hem thai beth ripe. 1482 Monk of Evesham (1869) 112 The wownde so clene agonne, that no tokyn of hyt..remaynyd. 1586 J. FERNE Blazon of Gentrie 21 Our sheepe shearing feastes..been all agone. 1674 MARVELL Rehears. Transp. II. 76 The Author therefore..took a great fright lest all were ago.