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▪ I. groping, vbl. n.|ˈgrəʊpɪŋ|
[f. grope v. + -ing1. In OE. grápung.]
The action of the verb grope in its various senses; † in early use, touch, the sense of touch; in groping, to the touch (obs.).
c1000ælfric Hom. I. 234 Forðan ðurh his [sc. St. Thomas's] grapunge we sind ᵹeleaffulle. a1225Ancr. R. 206 Mid luue speche, cos, unhende gropunges. Ibid. 314 Unneaðe, þauh a last, þuruh þen abbodes gropunge, he hit seide. c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 249 Þese [fyve] wittis ben clepid siȝte, and heering, smelling and taist, wiþ groping. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. iii. xxi. (1495) 69 The wytte of gropynge. Ibid. xvii. lii. (Tollem. MS.), Ebenus..is playne and smoþe in gropynge. c1440Jacob's Well 219 Wyht mowth in kyssyng, wyth hand in gropyng. c1560A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) iv. 52 Thair followis thingis thre To gar thame ga in gucking, Brasing, graping, and plucking. 1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 549 Euery Spirit always searcheth after God as a blind man goeth by groaping. 1791Burke App. Whigs 84 They lost their way by groping about in the dark, and fumbling among rotten parchments and musty records. 1830D'Israeli Chas. I, III. vii. 119 Feeling our way..in these cautious gropings after truth. 1847Halliwell, 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. 1855Lynch Rivulet xl. i, Is life a groping and a guess, A vain cry in a wilderness? 1888Athenæum 1 Dec. 739/1 The tentative mathematical gropings of the Egyptians and Phœnicians.
▪ II. groping, ppl. a.|ˈgrəʊpɪŋ|
[f. grope v. + -ing2.]
That gropes, in senses of the vb.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 591 He is þe gropande god. 1599Marston Sco. Villanie i. iii. 184 Shall Curio streake his lims on his daies couch, In Sommer bower? and with bare groping touch Incense his lust? 1691Hartcliffe Virtues 309 The groping World had so bewildred it self in an endless Maze of Errour. 1714Gay Trivia ii. 51 The groaping Blind direct. 1861Tulloch Eng. Purit. i. 75 Amidst its wild and groping earnestness, it sheds a vivid light upon the inward man.
absol.1850Mrs. Browning Poems II. 168 Or, that a hundred of the groping Like himself had made one Homer. |