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Definition of Agone
1. Adjective. Gone by; or in the past. "`agone' is an archaic word for `ago'"
Definition of Agone
1. a. & adv. Ago.
2. n. Agonic line.
Definition of Agone
1. Verb. (alternative form of ago) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Agone
1. ago [adv] - See also: ago
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agone
Literary usage of Agone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1888)
"years, agone when Tyler's cattle were taken tenant to Parker the copyholder, who
had committed waste and amerced in the treble damages. ..."
2. Switzerland, and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1877)
"To the N. of La Motta opens the Val agone, containing extensive strata of gypsum
and alabaster, through which a narrow road leads over the Forcola (7638') ..."
3. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"... front of noon was as a flame In the great year nigh twenty years agone When
all the heavens of Europe shook and shone With stormy wind and lightning, ..."
4. The Poems of William Browne of Tavistock by William Browne, Arthur Henry Bullen (1894)
"NOT long agone a youthful swain, Much wronged by a maid's disdain, Before Love's
altar came and did implore That he might like her less, or she love more. ..."
5. The Diary of William Pynchon of Salem: A Picture of Salem Life, Social and by William Pynchon, Fitch Edward Oliver (1890)
"Capt Cook arrives from Bilbao; says that he saw the B. Fame off NF L banks 14
days agone, standing westward; yet Cook and Brewer knew her well, ..."
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