Definition of "do by" [do by]

• Interact in a certain way (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• ""If the Abbot of westminster shulde sing every day as many masses for his founders as he is bounde to do by his foundacion, 1000 monkes were too few.""
• "Despite that victory, Martini was always being told what to do by the Southern Insurgency."
• "It is not enough to disparage the Foreign Service, as Rich Armitage used to do by calling it the “Foreign Circus.”"