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Agoing

Agoing \A*go"ing\, adv. [Pref. a- + p. pr. of go.] In motion; in the act of going; as, to set a mill agoing. [1913 Webster] ||

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agoing

vb. (context archaic English) (present participle of go English)

Usage examples of "agoing".

There's lands beyond that, too, and someday, mark me, I'm agoing there.

Her faith, or at least her hope, once set agoing, went farther than her husband's, and she had a greater power of waiting than he.

Master had got agoing at such a rate that I was willing to give a little turn to the conversation.

I 'm agoing to give up keeping boarders at the end of this year,--I mean come the end of December.

And that reminds me to tell you that I'm agoing to live with my daughter.

My son, he's agoing into business with the old Doctor he studied with, and he's agoing to board with me at my daughter's for a while,--I suppose he'll be getting a wife before long.

If he's got this fancy for March, as I say, he ain't agoing to change it in a single night.

But Barnaby, who was by this fairly set agoing, could not now stop himself.

It is as bad philosophy as theology, to suppose that God created the universe, endowed it with certain laws of development or activity, wound it up, gave it a jog, set it agoing, and then left it to go of itself.