单词 | grope |
释义 | gropen.1ΘΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > intellectual command, mastery > [noun] gropeOE sciencea1387 mastery1585 mastership1612 grasp1683 grip1861 masterhood1869 OE Guthlac A 407 Wæron hy reowe to ræsanne gifrum grapum. OE Beowulf 555 Me..fæste hæfde grim on grape. a1225 Leg. Kath. 855 Esculapies creftes, & Galienes grapes [L. sagacissimas latentium rerum inventiones]. 2. The action or an act of groping. literal and figurative. ΘΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > touching with the hand > [noun] palpation1483 grope?a1513 tractation1578 pertractation1598 attrectation1615 contrectation1624 tripotage1958 a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 113 Schou is..lyk a gangarall onto graep. 1894 Kingdom (Minneapolis) 20 Apr. The grope of a stricken soul. 1899 Speaker 2 Sept. 237/1 A step and a grope would tell me. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † gropen.2α. Middle English grap, Middle English grop, Middle English 1700s grope. β. Middle English grip. Obsolete. A kind of nail. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > nail > other nails scotsem nail1273 scotnail1293 foot nail1406 seam1406 sharpling1415 grope1425 cannel-nail1566 boss-nail1697 common nail1698 cut nail1795 1411 in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (1882) (modernized text) III. 546/3 50 grope & 1 c clout nails.] 1425 in W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. (1818) II. 253 In clavis carectat., gropys, et aliis ferramentis..xii sol. iv den. 1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. v. x. 193/1 The length and breadth of the Gropes belonging to the Wheels of the Carts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021). gropev.ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > touching with the hand > touch or feel with the hand [verb (intransitive)] gropec825 handlea1300 taste1377 grappe1382 grasp1382 grubblea1690 c825 Vesp. Ps. cxiii. 15 [cxv. 7] Honda habbað & ne grapiað. OE Beowulf 2085 He mægnes rof min costode, grapode gearofolm. OE Riddle 45 3 On þæt banlease bryd grapode, hygewlonc hondum, hrælge þeahte þrindende þing þeodnes dohtor. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 15107 He grapede [c1300 Otho gropede] an his nebbe he wende þat hit bledde. ?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 170 Ihc [emended in ed. to Ich] ne mai no more Grope vnder gore. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Wisd. xv. 15 The maumetis of naciouns..to the whiche nouther siȝte of eȝen is to seen..ne fingris of hondis to gropen. c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 683 Look what ther is, put in thyn hand and grope. c1440 W. Hylton Scala Perfeccionis (1494) i. lv Now may þou grope [L. palpare] that this ymage is not nought. 1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy v. xliv, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 159 Fyrst examyn, grope and taste. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) x. 37 They grope over where is no felynge. 1568 Ballad Good Counsel 19 in Kingis Quair (1834) 52 Graip or thow slyd, and creip furth on the way. 2. a. To attempt to find something by feeling about as in the dark or as a blind person; to feel for (or after) something with the hand (or other tactile organ, rarely with an instrument); to feel about in order to find one's way. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > make a search [verb (intransitive)] > search with the hand grope971 feela1382 971 Blickl. Hom. 151 Hie grapodan mid heora handum on þa eorþan, & nystan hwyder hie eodan. c1000 Ælfric Deut. xxviii. 29 Þæt þu grapie on midne dæg, swa se blinda deð on þistrum. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 302 She gropeth alwey forther wt hir hond And foond the bed. c1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes iii. vi. 16 With her handes for to fele his hede, And to grope after both his eares twayne. c1440 York Myst. xlvi. 238 Go we groppe wher we graued hir, If we fynde ouȝte þat faire one in fere nowe. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ruth iii. 8 Now whan it was midnight, the man was afrayed, and groped aboute. 1565–73 in J. Raine Depositions Courts Durham (1845) 211 Robson groped about his girdle for his key. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 11 Groaping with our hands in the sand. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 121 A covered way that..is..so dark, that one must groap along as they go in it. 1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 96 [They] searched our Boat very narrowly, and then with their Hooks groped all round the outside. 1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 154 They steek their een, an grape an' wale, For muckle anes, an' straught anes. 1792 J. Barlow Conspiracy of Kings 82 Dim, like the day-struck owl, ye grope in light. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xv. 138 Hats and bonnets being groped for under the tables. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 93 He groped as blind, and seem'd Always about to fall. b. Applied to the catching of fish, esp. trout, by feeling for them in the water. Const. for; also in indirect passive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (intransitive)] > catch fish with hands gropea1616 guddle1881 a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. ii. 0 + 6 Groping for Trowts, in a peculiar Riuer. View more context for this quotation 1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Author's Apol. sig. A4 Fish must be grop't for, and be tickled too. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cxxxi. 121 A Boy was Groping for Eles, and layd his hand upon a Snake. 1834 W. S. Landor Citation & Exam. Shakespere in Wks. (1846) II. 272 Every carp from pool, every bream from brook, will be groped for. c. figurative. To behave as if blind or in the dark; to search blindly, tentatively, or uncertainly (for, after); †to make a blind guess at. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > make a search [verb (intransitive)] > search as if blind or in dark gropec1386 gripea1599 c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 126 Ay we han good hope It for to doon, and after it we grope. c1390 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 142 Þi Concience schal þe saue and deme, Wheþer þat þou beo ille or good; Grope aboute and tak good ȝeme. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 13590 Whenne þei had stryuen as I telle þei groped & coude no cause fynde. 1558 J. Knox First Blast against Monstruous Regiment Women f. 47 Greate wonder it is, that in so greate light of Goddes truthe, men list to grope and wander in darknes. 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet B ij b It was well groapt at. 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. To Rdr. sig. b2 If they will but grope after him, in whom we all liue mooue and haue our being. 1682 J. Dryden Religio Laici 2 As blindly grop'd they for a future State. 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 423 O wretched impotence of human mind! We..darkling grope, not knowing we are blind. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1779 II. 289 [Johnson:] Mallet, I believe, never wrote a single line of his projected Life of the Duke of Marlborough. He groped for materials and thought of it. a1832 F. D. Maurice Moral & Metaphysical Philos. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) II. 600/1 The scientific principle which Parmenides had been groping after. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam liv. 79 I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope . View more context for this quotation 1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. App. 650 A minute knowledge..which certainly cannot be got by the dull process of groping in the Chronicles. 1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars vii. 325 The prophets had been groping after a formula which might be their strength. d. to grope one's way: to find one's way by feeling about or groping; to feel one's way; to proceed in a tentative manner. literal and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move forward or advance [verb (intransitive)] > effect forward movement in specific way > tentatively or by feeling to grope one's way1574 to feel (out) one's way1638 to fumble one's way1801 the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > try experiments or make experiment [verb (intransitive)] > proceed tentatively to feel (out) one's waya1450 to grope one's way1862 1574 J. Baret Aluearie G 537 To proue, trye, or feele the way as he goeth: to grope the way. 1716 J. Gay Trivia iii. 68 Hence wert thou doom'd in endless Night to stray Through Theban Streets, and cheerless groap thy Way. a1794 E. Gibbon Autobiogr. (1896) 227 I groped my way to the chappel and the communion-table by the dim light of my catechism. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 93 I groped my way out of the room. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxviii. 149 We..groped our way down stairs in the pitch dark. 1862 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. II. i. 7 With our limited capacities, we are compelled..to grope our way as well as we can. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > touching with the hand > touch or feel with the hand [verb (transitive)] > examine by gropec1000 handleOE tastec1290 feela1400 grob1654 explore1689 grubblea1690 pouter1808 palpate1850 fingle1907 c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 134 Se cuma his cneow grapode mid his halwendum handum. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 278 Ach is for sum þe schal rede þis inoch raðe þe grapeð hire to softe. noðeles. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1544 Ysaac wende it were esau, For he grapte him and fond him ru. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 449 He by~clipped þe deed body and gropeþ the woundes. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18694 Thomas..he lete To put his hand in at his side, Al for to grape his wond wide. c1440 York Myst. xlii. 57 Se þat I haue flessh and bone, Gropes me nowe. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 850 It [an animal] walde of him be graped and fedde. c1480 (a1400) St. Mary Magdalen 459 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 269 Þe child cane..grape þe modyr pape, for fud to tak. ?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) i. l. 744 in Shorter Poems (1967) 52 Oft I wald my hand behald to se Gyf it alteryt, and oft my vissage grape [1579 Edinb. graip]. 1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle iii. iv. sig. Ciiiiv Ichould twenty pound, your neele is in her throte Grope her ich say, me thinkes ich feele it. 1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. ii. iv. 36 Grope the pulse of euerie mangie wrest. a1643 J. Shute Sarah & Hagar (1649) 88 Those that grasp and grope all that they can pretend any right to..shall finde God blowe upon it, and make it uncomfortable. 1647 J. Hall Poems ii. 98 They grope but Aire. 1730 J. Swift Lady's Dressing-room 93 But Strephon, cautious, never meant The Bottom of the Pan to grope. 1738 S. Johnson London 151 Slaves that..Can Balbo's eloquence applaud, and swear He gropes his breeches with a monarch's air. b. transitive. To touch or fondle (a person or part of the body) clumsily or forcefully for one's sexual gratification, (in later use) esp. without consent.ⓘ ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > other types of sexual activity or intercourse > engage in other types of sexual activity or intercourse [verb (transitive)] > stimulate genitals of (a person) gropec1275 feel1569 goose1879 to play with ——1879 fingerc1890 to bring off1916 to feel up1926 to jack off?1927 reef1962 fingle1996 c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) l. 1496 (MED) Hu mai þar eni luue beo War swuch man gropeþ hire þeo? c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) l. 3105 Þow gropedest þe wif aniȝt to lowe. c1390 (?c1350) St. Bernard l. 133 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 43 Heo lay stille a luytel whil, Þen heo groped him atte laste. ?1557 Deceyte Women sig. E.iiiv He loste all hys power, and fayled, and it was not in his power to doo her swerely, and groped her round breestes. 1664 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 3 Kissed her and groped her and felt her brests. c1890 My Secret Life III. xv. 243 Down went my hand to her cunt, I groped it, she awoke. 1903 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VI. ii. 369/1 To play at stinkfinger,..to grope a woman. 1997 E. White Farewell Symphony (1998) ii. 45 Two fellows were even groping each other in the doorway. 1997 A. Smith Like (2001) 277 Someone had groped me on the tube and then I'd got soaked on my way to work. 2014 Sun (Nexis) 1 July 33 During a fire drill he groped Diana's bottom while walking upstairs behind her. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > rear poultry [verb (transitive)] > handle to detect eggs grope1590 1590 ‘C. Curry-Knave’ Almond for Parrat 5 Groaping his owne hennes, like a Cotquean. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Apprendre aux poissons à nager, to teach fishes to swimme; (an idle, vaine, or needlesse labour) we say, to teach his grandame to grope ducks. ΚΠ 1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. xcv. 383 Then grope the hoofe with a paire of pinsons round about vntill you haue found the place grieued. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > search for or seek [verb (transitive)] > search a place or receptacle thoroughly asearch1382 searcha1387 ransacka1400 ripea1400 upripe?a1400 riflec1400 ruffle1440 gropea1529 rig1572 rake1618 rummage1621 haul1666 fish1727 call1806 ratch1859 to turn over1859 to go through ——1861 rifle1894 rancel1899 to take apart1920 fine-tooth comb1949 the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > search for or seek [verb (transitive)] > search (a person) ransacka1325 search1474 frisk1789 to rub down1825 grope1837 to run the rule over1865 fan1927 to pat down1943 screen1951 a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Gii Nay I know well Inough ye are bothe well handyd To grope a gardeuyaunce though it be well bandyd. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iii. v. 181 All men in black, spite of their Tickets of Entry, are clutched by the collar, and groped. ΚΠ c1225 (?c1200) Sawles Warde (Bodl.) (1938) 12 Se þicke is þrinne þe þosternesse þet me hire mei grapin. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 23242 Þe sext paine [of hell]..Es suilk mercknes men mai it grape. a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 6566 Swa mykel myrknes, Þat it may be graped, swa thik it es. a. To apprehend as something palpable. Often with clause as object. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > understand [verb (transitive)] > reach understanding of conceive1340 grope1390 tellc1390 catchc1475 reacha1500 make1531 to make sense of1574 to make outa1625 apprehend1631 realize1742 finda1834 reify1854 recognize1879 to get (something) straight1920 to pick up1946 to work out1953 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 205 This king hath spoke with the pope And tolde all that he couthe grope, What greveth in his conscience. a1425 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Linc. Inn) (1952) l. 5351 Monye buþ þeo merueilles..þat Alisaundre haþ ygrope [c1400 Laud agrope]. c1470 J. Hardyng Chron. ccxlii. App. ix Your nauy maye receaue vytayle in that countre, A longest the water of Foorth, as I can grope. 1587 D. Fenner Def. Godlie Ministers sig. Kiiiv Which meaning.., if he could not grope it by the purpose wee had in answering the first obiection: yet it was maruelous hee espyed it not by our words. a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 561 This doctrin..is so evident that it is marvell that any can be so sencelesse as not to grope it. 1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. C3 Th'art familiarly acquainted there, I grope that. 1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. ii. viii. 329 So notorious is the originall corruption of mankinde, that sense gropes it, and nature feeles it. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 350 When you might have felt and groped the Lord in his manifest providence. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > engage the attention [verb (transitive)] exercisea1538 entertainc1540 replenish1548 rouse1583 catcha1586 amuse1586 detainc1595 attract1599 grope1602 concerna1616 take1634 stay1639 engage1642 meet1645 nudge1675 strike1697 hitcha1764 seize1772 interest1780 acuminate1806 arrest1835 grip1891 intrigue1894 grab1966 work1969 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida v. sig. H4v As I am a true knight, I feele honourable eloquence begin to grope mee alreadie. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > scrutinize [verb (transitive)] through-seekOE gropea1250 to search outa1382 ensearch1382 boltc1386 examinea1387 ransackc1390 ripea1400 search1409 overreach?a1425 considerc1425 perquirec1460 examec1480 peruse?1520 grounda1529 study1528 oversearch1532 perscrute1536 scrute1536 to go over ——1537 scan1548 examinate1560 rifle1566 to consider of1569 excuss1570 ripe1573 sift1573 sift1577 to pry into ——1581 dive1582 rub1591 explore1596 pervestigate1610 dissecta1631 profound1643 circumspect1667 scrutinize1671 perscrutatea1679 introspect1683 rummage1690 reconnoitre1740 scrutinate1742 to look through1744 scrutiny1755 parse1788 gun1819 cat-haul1840 vivisect1876 scour1882 microscope1888 tooth-comb1893 X-ray1896 comb1904 fine-tooth comb1949 a1250 (?a1200) [implied in: Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 142 Unneaðe þauh alast. þuruh þen abbodes gropunge he hit seide. (at groping n.)]. c1386 G. Chaucer Sompn. T. 109 Thise curatz been ful necligent and slowe To grope tendrely a conscience. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 645 Who so koulde in oother thyng hym grope Thanne hadde he spent al his philosophie. c1440 York Myst. xxiii. 104 I rede we..grope þam how þis game is begonne. c1450 J. Myrc Instr. to Par. Priests 912 When he seyþ I con no more Freyne hym þus and grope hys sore [i.e. sin]. 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid i. Prol. 502 Gif I haue failȝeit, bald[l]y repruif my ryme, Bot first, I pray ȝou, grape the mater clene. 1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 617 Sume fayne themselfe..medelynge spyes, by craft to grope thy mynde. 1542 H. Brinkelow Lamentacion sig. Dv Pryestes so long as they shall grope our particular synnes. 1557 Bible (Whittingham) Acts xxiv (contents) Felix gropeth him, thinking to haue a bribe. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 296 Ffenela, quhome nature had formet to deceiue, grapet the kingis mynd. a1651 D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1843) II. 313 Davie gropped their mindes, how they were affected to the banished lords. 5. to grope out: to find by feeling about. Chiefly figurative. To find by tentative effort; to search out. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > find out, discover [verb (transitive)] seeOE fanda1000 finda1200 kenc1330 lenda1350 agropea1393 contrive1393 to find outc1405 outsearch?a1439 ripec1440 inventc1475 disclose?a1500 fish1531 agnize?1570 discover1585 to grope out1590 out-find1590 expiscate1598 vent1611 to learn out1629 to get to know1643 develop1653 ascertain1794 stag1796 root1866 to get a line on1903 establish1919 the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by care or effort > by searching findOE forage1630 scrabble1657 to grope out1701 routc1776 1590 R. Hitchcock tr. F. Sansovino Quintesence of Wit f. 17 So muche lesse we doo gather and groape out the trueth. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (1 Cor. i. 21) Not the Jews by their deep Doctours, nor the Gentiles by their wits and wizards..could grope out God. 1701 C. Cibber Love makes Man iv. 37 At last I have grop'd out a Window, that will let me into the Secret. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. p. xxii Our Duty..is..set before us in the brightest Light, while theirs is to be groped out by the dark Glimmerings of very fallible Reason. c1820 Houlston's Juvenile Tracts No. 11 Hold Up your Head 12 He will grope it out, and brood over it. 1846 J. W. Croker Let. 4 Feb. in Croker Papers (1884) III. 265 You..enable me to grope out somewhat of the present posture of affairs. 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 150 I..began to hack frozenly at a log which I groped out. 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