Hypertext Webster Gateway: "undergoing"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Undergo \Un`der*go"\, v. t. [imp. {Underwent}; p. p. {Undergone}
(?; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. {Undergoing}.] [AS. underg[=a]n.
See {Under}, and {Go}.]
1. To go or move below or under. [Obs.]

2. To be subjected to; to bear up against; to pass through;
to endure; to suffer; to sustain; as, to undergo toil and
fatigue; to undergo pain, grief, or anxiety; to undergothe
operation of amputation; food in the stomach undergoes the
process of digestion.

Certain to undergo like doom. --Milton.

3. To be the bearer of; to possess. [Obs.]

Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As
infinite as man may undergo. --Shak.

4. To undertake; to engage in; to hazard. [Obs.]

I have moved already Some certain of the
noblest-minded Romans To undergo with me an
enterprise. --Shak.

5. To be subject or amenable to; to underlie. [Obs.]

Claudio undergoes my challenge. --Shak.


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