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    Done, When All Is Said And

    done
    past participle of do (v.); from Old English past participle gedon (a vestige of the prefix is in ado). As a past-participle adjective meaning "completed, finished, performed, accomplished" from early 15c. As a word of acceptance of a deal or wager, 1590s.

    U.S. Southern use of done in phrases such as done gone (or "Octopots done got Albert!") is attested by 1827, according to OED: "a perfective auxiliary or with adverbial force in the sense 'already; completely.' " Century Dictionary writes that it was "originally causal after have or had, followed by an object infinitive ; in present use the have or had is often omitted and the infinitive turned into a preterit, leaving done as a mere preterit sign" and calls it "a characteristic of negro idiom."

    To be done in "exhausted" is by 1917. Slang done for "doomed" is by 1803 (colloquial do for "ruin, damage" is from 1740). To have done it "to have been very foolish, made a mess of things" is from 1837.

    Happiness comes from accepting rather than objecting. Done is a PAST PARTICIPLE and not a PRESENT or FUTURE one. What is in the past is unchangeable. Accept it and your future will be much more rosy.

    A pie that is DONE gets pulled from the oven. Leaving it in longer won't improve it.

    What do you do when a political system is done?

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