| 单词 | root and rind |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroot and rind P5. root and rind: utterly, completely, altogether; esp. with reference to destruction. Cf. crop and root at crop n. 5, root and branch adv. rare after 17th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] high and low1397 every (also ilk, ilka) stick?a1400 root and rind?a1400 hair and hide?c1450 stout and routc1450 bane and routc1480 overthwart and endlonga1500 (in) hide and hairc1575 right out1578 horse and footc1600 flesh and fella1616 root and branch1640 stab and stow1680 stoop and roop1728 stick, stock, stone dead1796 rump and stump1824 stump and rump1825 rump and rig1843 good and1885 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 3261 (MED) Every man and bridd and beste, And flour and gras and rote and rinde..Schal sterve, and Erthe it schal become.] ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 333 Toward þe North he schoke, To chace kyng Robyn,..destroie him rote & rynde. c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Fabula Duorum Mercatorum (Harl.) 271 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 495 (MED) The[i] were ful besy to fynd oute, roote and rynde, Of what humour was causyd his dissese. c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 66 (MED) He breketh hem [sc. trees] asondre or rendeth hem roote & rynde Out of the erthe. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) l. sig. Kiiiv The monster ranne to a tree..and..tare it vp rote and rinde. 1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job (new ed.) lxxvii. 397/1 God will plucke them [sc. the wicked] vp roote and rinde. 1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 60 Druina's Soveraigne Monarch, with his Royall Consort, and Princely Imps, Root and Rinde, Stemme and Stock, Bud and Blossome, had all beene blasted. 1827 A. J. Jardine Fragm. Church Hist. 76 To cut up heresy root and rind was the object of the Church. 1981 Mag. Fantasy & Sci. Fiction July 133/1 My mother was locked root and rind to the holder and wielder of that power. < as lemmas |
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