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Meaning: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seego,with.; (idiomatic,transitive)Tochooseoraccept(a suggestion).Synonyms:pick,selectAlthough I liked your suggestion, I'llgo withmy original idea.; (idiomatic,transitive)Todate, to be involvedromanticallywith (someone).Synonyms:go out with,go steady;see alsoThesaurus:date; (idiomatic,transitive)To havesexual relationswith (someone).Synonyms:be with,go to bed with,lie with,sleep with;see alsoThesaurus:copulate with; (transitive)Tocorrespondorfitwell with, tomatch.Synonyms:harmonize,match,tone inDoes this red skirtgo withthis pink blouse?; (obsolete,transitive)To bepregnantwith (a child).Synonyms:carry,eat for two;see alsoThesaurus:be pregnantc.1613,William Shakespeare,John Fletcher,Henry VIII, act 5, scene 1:The fruit shegoes with, / I pray for heartily, that it may find / Good time, and live.1635, Jacques Guillemeau,Child-birth; Or, The Happy Delivery of Women, page30:When the woman is come to the ninth Moneth, having beene in good health all the time of hergoing withchild: she must continue the use of the aforesaid Ointments, and must begin to use more exercise than she did before, walking gently before meales the first twelve or fifteene daies; and then afterward it will be good to use stronger exercise.1722, Jean Domat,The Civil Law in Its Natural Order: Together with the Public Law, page647:But it seems reasonable that in the particular case where the question is, whether a Child be legitimate or not; the doubt arising from this, that the Child's birth is either too forward, or too backward, we should join to the common Rules which result from the Texts quoted on this Article, as to what concerns the time of a Woman'sgoing withChild, the consideration of the particular circumstances, in order to decide wisely and prudently a question of so great consequence, in which the honour of a Mother, the state of a Child, and the quiet of the Families, which have an interest both in the one and the other, are all equally concerned.1727August 8, R. Bradley,letter:The time of pregnancy, of the Lioness'going withyoung, as the keepers inform me, is four months.1731, John Barnard,The Certainty, Time, and End, of the Birth of Our Lord, page64:This is the Sixth Month with her that was called barren; which leads us to Feb. 9th; and the Nine months, of the Virgin'sgoing withChild, will unavoidably bring us to Nov. 9th.1765, Richard Brookes,The General Practice of Physic, page251:Hoffman says, the usual Time is nine solar Months; and Juncker, that Excretions from the Uterus being by women referred to certain lunar Phases, they reckon theirgoing withChild by the Weeks, and that they usually exclude the Foetus forty Weeks from the Time of their being with Child, commonly on that very Day they were used to have their Menses.1795, Court of King's Bench,Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, Great Britain:If the husband was out of the four seas during all the time of the wife'sgoing withchild, the child is a bastard; but if he were here at all within the time, it is legitimate, and no bastard.
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