Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume DE

1. To place; to put. [Obs.] Tale of a Usurer (about 1330).

2. To cause; to make; -- with an infinitive. [Obs.]

My lord Abbot of Westminster did shewe to me late certain evidences.
W. Caxton.

I shall . . . your cloister do make.
Piers Plowman.

A fatal plague which many did to die.
Spenser.

We do you to wit [i. e., We make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia.
2 Cor. viii. 1.

We have lost the idiom shown by the citations (do used like the French faire or laisser), in which the verb in the infinitive apparently, but not really, has a passive signification, i. e., cause . . . to be made.

3. To bring about; to produce, as an effect or result; to effect; to achieve.

The neglecting it may do much danger.
Shak.

He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good not harm.
Shak.

4. To perform, as an action; to execute; to transact to carry out in action; as, to do a good or a bad act; do our duty; to do what I can.

Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work.
Ex. xx. 9.

We did not do these things.
Ld. Lytton.