单词 | to take rooting |
释义 | > as lemmasto take rooting b. to take rooting: to become fixed or established, settle down in a place; (literal) to begin to grow and draw nourishment from the soil. Cf. to take root at root n.1 Phrases 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > initiate [verb (intransitive)] > be or become established morea1200 roota1382 to take roota1450 take1523 to take rooting1548 to be well warmed1565 seisin1568 to sit down1579 to come to stay1863 the world > plants > part of plant > root > plant defined by roots > have root [verb (intransitive)] > take root to take roota1400 roota1425 take?1440 to take rooting1548 sprig1611 radicate1656 to strike root (also roots)1658 tap-root1769 to make root1856 fibre1869 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark iv. f. 32 Because it coulde not for stones take rootyng but lacked rootes. 1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Rome in Complaints 248 Thence th' Imperiall Eagle rooting tooke. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. vi. 27 Religion..taketh naturally such rooting, that all politicall lawes and tortures cannot plucke it vp. 1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 62 The Linen Manufacture..will take deep rooting and get a good Foundation on a sudden. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. ii. 234 He determined to nip in the Bud this dangerous Rival, before he took too firm Rooting. 1790 S. Deane New-Eng. Farmer 120 In order to make the loosened plants take rooting. 1844 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. I. 310/1 Such a quickening power has the word of God to regenerate and make alive dead souls, if we suffer it to take rooting in our hearts. 1895 Sunday at Home 640/2 That spray, being planted, had taken rooting, and was even now quick and blossoming. 1975 P. Wall Prelude to Détente iii. 29 British influence took firm rooting only after 1887. < as lemmas |
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