| 单词 | to grope out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto grope out 5. to grope out: to find by feeling about. Chiefly figurative. To find by tentative effort; to search out. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > find out, discover [verb (transitive)] seeOE fanda1000 finda1200 kenc1330 lenda1350 agropea1393 contrive1393 to find outc1405 outsearch?a1439 ripec1440 inventc1475 disclose?a1500 fish1531 agnize?1570 discover1585 to grope out1590 out-find1590 expiscate1598 vent1611 to learn out1629 to get to know1643 develop1653 ascertain1794 stag1796 root1866 to get a line on1903 establish1919 the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by care or effort > by searching findOE forage1630 scrabble1657 to grope out1701 routc1776 1590 R. Hitchcock tr. F. Sansovino Quintesence of Wit f. 17 So muche lesse we doo gather and groape out the trueth. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (1 Cor. i. 21) Not the Jews by their deep Doctours, nor the Gentiles by their wits and wizards..could grope out God. 1701 C. Cibber Love makes Man iv. 37 At last I have grop'd out a Window, that will let me into the Secret. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. p. xxii Our Duty..is..set before us in the brightest Light, while theirs is to be groped out by the dark Glimmerings of very fallible Reason. c1820 Houlston's Juvenile Tracts No. 11 Hold Up your Head 12 He will grope it out, and brood over it. 1846 J. W. Croker Let. 4 Feb. in Croker Papers (1884) III. 265 You..enable me to grope out somewhat of the present posture of affairs. 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 150 I..began to hack frozenly at a log which I groped out. < as lemmas |
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