- an exclamation similar to BY JOVE. The term is older than is frequently imagined—vide _Bacchus and Venus_ (p. 117), 1737. “’Fore (or by) GEORGE, I’d knock him down.” Originally in reference to Saint George, the patron saint of England, or possibly to the House of Hanover.
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