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[Cleopatra]

[johnslat]

Shakespeare done did it:

" If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly . . ."

And I'd say that both "finish" and "done" are ambitransitive. Moreover, the past participle form of both can be used adjectively as the stative passive.
Regards,
John

[Cleopatra]

Not sure how you interpret 'done' as being synonymous with 'finished' in the above quotation.

[johnslat]

Dear Cleopatra,
How about here?

http://books.google.com/books?id=7Ko0AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA46&lpg=PA46&dq=I+AM+DONE+SHAKESPEARE&source=web&ots=Bqq3zXxz2I&sig=g3Ly2Kwq6pYxVQnlYQrvKbJ_T7Y&hl=en

or this one:

"Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing."

or Lady Macbeth:

The sleep- walking Lady Macbeth cries in anguish: "What's done cannot be undone."

or the eponymous John Donne:

"Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun,
Which was my sin, though it were done before?
Wilt thou forgive that sin, through which I run,
And do run still, though still I do deplore?
When thou hast done, thou hast not done,
For I have more.

Wilt thou forgive that sin which I have won
Others to sin, and made my sin their door?
Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun
A year or two, but wallow'd in, a score?
When thou hast done, thou hast not done,
For I have more.

I have a sin of fear, that when I have spun
My last thread, I shall perish on the shore;
But swear by thyself, that at my death thy Son
Shall shine as he shines now, and heretofore;
And, having done that, thou hast done;
I fear no more."

or, as some would have it, God:

"Then He said to me, "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost."

I think the meaning of "accomplished" can be considered as often being synonymous with the meaning of "finished."

Regards,
John

[Cleopatra]

And they say people living in KSA have too much time on their hands...

[johnslat]

Dear Cleopatra,
I'm just a great multi-tasker. While researching that, I was eating breakfast, throwing a stuffed animal for the puppy to fetch, listening to my wife, and planning my class day.
And that was a slow morning.
Regards,
John