† undergropev.
Obsolete.
transitive. To search into, to investigate; to learn.
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the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > research > find out by investigation [verb (transitive)]
seekc900
seeOE
searcha1382
takea1382
inquire1390
undergrope?a1412
explore1531
to pry out1548
to scan out1548
to hunt out1576
sound1596
exquire1607
pervestigate1610
pump1611
trace1642
probe1649
to hunt up1741
to pick a person's brains (also brain)1770
verify1801
to get a load of1929
sus1966
?a1412 J. Lydgate Fabula Duorum Merc. 351 And whan his freend the sothe gan vndirgrope Of this myscheef.
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iv. 4644 But he anon..Gan vndergrope, pleinly, what þei ment.
1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 28 The secunde yer of the forseyd pope, As be cronyculers I vndyrgrope, Fel a ful greuows dissencyoun.
1678 A. Littleton Linguæ Latinæ Liber Dictionarius Subtento, to assay or try underhand, to under-grope.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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