| 单词 | in groping |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin groping The action of grope v. in its various senses; †in early use, touch, the sense of touch; in groping, to the touch (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > [noun] gropingc1000 toucha1398 feela1400 tastea1400 tastinga1400 touching?c1400 tact1651 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > [noun] > tentatively groping1594 the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [noun] > types of search or searching > searching blindly or as if in dark groping1594 gropery1777 the mind > attention and judgement > [noun] > tentative groping1830 the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [noun] > types of search or searching > searching tentatively groping1830 c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 234 Forðan ðurh his [sc. St. Thomas's] grapunge we sind geleaffulle. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 153 Wið luue speche cos. vnhende grapunge. a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 142 Unneaðe þauh alast. þuruh þen abbodes gropunge he hit seide. c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 249 Þese [fyve] wittis ben clepid siȝte, and heering, smelling and taist, wiþ groping. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iii. xxi. 69 The wytte of gropynge. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS.) (1495) xvii. lii Ebenus..is playne and smoþe in gropynge. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 219 Wyth mowth in kyssyng, wyth hand in gropyng. c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) iv. 52 Thair followis thingis thre To gar thame ga in gucking, Brasing, graping, and plucking. 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 549 Euery Spirit always searcheth after God as a blind man goeth by groaping. 1791 E. Burke Appeal New to Old Whigs 84 They lost their way by groping about in the dark, and fumbling among rotten parchments and musty records. 1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. vii. 119 Feeling our way..in these cautious gropings after truth. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Groping, (1) A mode of ascertaining whether geese or fowls have eggs. Var. dial. (2) A mode of catching trout by tickling them with the hands under rocks or banks. 1855 T. T. Lynch Rivulet xl. 56 Is life a groping and a guess, A vain cry in a wilderness..? 1888 Athenæum 1 Dec. 739/1 The tentative mathematical gropings of the Egyptians and Phœnicians. < as lemmas |
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