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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
root .
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Examples
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On being plucked up, a great worm is found to be its root, and as the tree groweth in greatness, so doth the worm diminish, and as soon as the worm is entirely turned into a tree it rooteth in the earth, and so becomes great.
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On being plucked up, a great worm is found to be its root, and as the tree groweth in greatness, so doth the worm diminish, and as soon as the worm is entirely turned into a tree it rooteth in the earth, and so becomes great.
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Emong the godlie lawes of Lycurgus, Lycurgus omit - ted not to ordaine Lawes, for the educacion of youthe: in the whiche he cutte of all pamperyng of them, because in tender yeres, in whose bodies pleasure harboreth, their vertue, sci - ence, cunnyng rooteth not: labour, diligence, and industrie
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[Sidenote: A due rewar [-] des for thie - ues and mur - therers.] lence and against nature, their pestiferous doinges do frame their confusion: their execrable & destetable purpose, do make theim a outcaste from all good people, and as no members thereof, cut of from all societée, their euill life rooteth perpetu - al ignomie and shame.
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[Sidenote: Godlie pro - creacion.] face of the yearth, how sone wer kyngdoms dissolued, where as procreacion rooteth, a newe generacion, issue and ofspring, and as it were a newe soule and bodie.
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As pestiferous poison extinguisheth with his cor - rupcion and nautinesse, the good and absolute nature of all thinges: so vice for his pestiferous nature putteth out vertue and rooteth out with his force all singularitée.
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The father's blessing establisheth the houses of the children: but the mother's curse rooteth up the foundation.
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IN whom nature hath powred singuler giftes, in whom vertue, & singularitée, in famous en - terprises aboundeth: whose glorie & renoume, rooteth to the posteritée, immortall commen - dacion.
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The father's blessing establisheth the houses of the children: but the mother's curse rooteth up the foundation.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision
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[Sidenote: Who liue in all ages.] ses, by vertue rooteth immortalitée.
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