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rooted, ppl. a.|ˈruːtɪd|
[f. root v.1 and n.1]
1. a. Having roots; furnished with roots. spec. Having been made to grow roots.
Chiefly of plants, but also in transf. uses.
1557Recorde Whetst. G iij b, Now will we..intreate more of rooted nombers. 1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 160 The best way of planting Woods, is to do it with rooted Plants. 1786Abercrombie Gard. Assist. 78 Plant either in full plants, or rooted slips. 1839Penny Cycl. XV. 509/2 Grinders simple or compound, rooted. 1852G. W. Johnson Cottage Gardener's Dict. 304/2 A rooted cutting is not a new plant, it is only an extension of the parent. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life 4 The Squirrels..live on seeds and have, like most Muridae, rooted molars. 1882Vines tr. Sachs' Bot. 848 We assume..that the..shoot is rooted. 1969P. Thrower Every Day Gardening viii. 196/2 Give the rooted cuttings as much light as possible to prevent them from becoming drawn.
b. With qualifying adj. or adv. prefixed.
See also bulbous-, fibrous-, tuberous-rooted.
1611Cotgr. s.v. Fendu, Radis fendu, the..many-rooted Raddish. 1699Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXI. 293 The Radishes, both Garden and Spanish, (which is the large Black-rooted;)..and the round and long Rooted Turnep. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 160 They shoot out during the Summer many well-rooted Suckers. 1731Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Adonis, The Hellebore-rooted Pheasant's-eye. a1822Shelley Ess. & Lett. (1886) 58 The bare boughs of the marble-rooted fig-tree. 1883Grove's Dict. Music III. 158/2 To decide whether G or F or D is the root, or whether indeed it is even a double-rooted chord.
2. a. Planted in the ground; attached or fixed by roots; firmly implanted; having taken root.
1390Gower Conf. I. 86 Ther was nevere rooted tre, That stod so faste in his degre. 1718Pope Iliad xiv. 578 Full in his eye the weapon chanced to fall, And from the fibres scoop'd the rooted ball. 1784Cowper Task ii. 100 The fixt and rooted earth, Tormented into billows, heaves and swells. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede xlix, There's no more moving you than the rooted tree.
fig.1878T. L. Cuyler Pointed Papers 171 Nor will the drought affect a well-rooted Christian.
b. transf. Of habits, opinions, etc.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. De W. 1531) 263 b, To be a conquerour of vyce, by holy roted loue & assured hope of y⊇ kyngdome of god. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. IV, 29 b, Nor roted malice is not in hast plucked up. 1605Shakes. Macb. v. iii. 41 Can'st thou not..Plucke from the Memory a rooted Sorrow? 1693Apol. Clergy Scot. 38 Single Acts may grow into rooted Habits. 1710Berkeley Princ. Hum. Knowl. §124 Ancient and rooted prejudices. 1777Burke Addr. to the King Wks. 1842 II. 396 This scheme being..set up in direct opposition to the rooted and confirmed sentiments and habits of thinking of an whole people. 1825Scott Jrnl. 28 Nov., He..never moved from his rooted opinion, blow as it listed. 1883F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius iii, Have you a very strong and rooted dislike to the society of women?
c. Of maladies: Deep-seated, chronic.
1744Berkeley Siris §119 Though not a perfect recovery from my old and rooted illness. 1807Med. Jrnl. XVII. 270 Her complaint every day gained ground, and appeared of a very rooted nature.
3. Torn up by the roots.
1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVI. 252/2 These would have represented the river-gods as seated on ruins, brandishing rooted-up trees. |