单词 | root-stroke |
释义 | > as lemmasroot-stroke root-stroke n. a decisive stroke; a fatal blow.Apparently only in or with reference to the works of the theologian and Church of Scotland minister Thomas Boston of Ettrick. ΚΠ a1732 T. Boston Mem. (1776) xi. 375 The gospel-doctrine has got a root-stroke by the condemning of that book. 1752 Boston's Sovereignty & Wisdom of God 78 Even when the Root-Stroke is given in Believers, the Rod of Pride buds again. 1895 A. Thomson Thomas Boston of Ettrick xi. 212 The two courses formed an elaborate system of evangelical theology,..giving many a ‘root-stroke’ to crude thoughts which were the growth of half knowledge. < as lemmas |
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