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enroot, v.|ɛnˈruːt|
Only in pa. pple. Also 5 enrot, 9 inroot.
[f. en-1 + root.]
trans.
1. To fix by the root.
1490Caxton Eneydos (1889) 17 Smalle busshes or lytyll trees, by humydite and hete, depely enroted in the erthe. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. iii. 22 And eke enrooted deepe must be that Tree, Whose big embodied braunches shall not lin Till they to hevens hight forth stretched bee. 1836–9Todd Cycl. Anat. II. 553/1 In old persons close to the entrance [of the ear] hairs..are enrooted.
b. fig. To implant deeply in the mind; to fix firmly in custom or habit.
1596Spenser Hymn Heav. Love 24 The guilt of that infected cryme Which was enrooted in all fleshly slyme. 1688Jas. II Let. Feversham in 4th Coll. Papers Pres. Juncture Affairs 28 Your former Principles are so enrooted in you. 1805Ann. Rev. III. 255 It has not the courage of the antient parliaments, because it is less inrooted.
2. To entangle root with root.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. i. 207 His foes are so en-rooted with his friends, That plucking to vnfixe an Enemie, Hee doth vnfasten so, and shake a friend. |