Get together
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As soon as I GOT back to my Inn, I GOT my Supper, and GOT to Bed, it was not long before I GOT to Sleep. I soon GOT into the Secret of GETTING a Memorial before the Board, but I could not GET an Answer then, however I GOT Intelligence from the Messenger that I should most likely GET one the next Morning. I GOT to the Treasury about Noon, but first of all I GOT shaved and drest. But I GOT wet through before I GOT to Canterbury, and I HAVE GOT such a Cold as I shall not be able to GET rid of in a Hurry. When I GOT to Canterbury I GOT a Chaise for Town. "I GOT on Horseback within ten Minutes after I received your Letter. The word and phrases built on it take up 29 columns in the OED 2nd edition Century Dictionary lists seven distinct senses for to get up. In compound phrases with have and had it is grammatically redundant, but often usefully indicates possession, obligation, or necessity, or gives emphasis. Vestiges of an Old English cognate *gietan remain obliquely in modern past participle gotten and original past tense gat, also Biblical begat. Old English, as well as Dutch and Frisian, had the verb almost exclusively in compounds (such as begietan, "to beget " forgietan "to forget"). This is from Proto-Germanic *getan (source also of Old Swedish gissa "to guess," literally "to try to get"), from PIE root *ghend- "to seize, take." 1200, from Old Norse geta (past tense gatum, past participle getenn) "to obtain, reach to be able to to beget to learn to be pleased with," a word of very broad meaning, often used almost as an auxilliary verb, also frequently in phrases (such as geta rett "to guess right").