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1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) iii. ii. 223/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The like order is taken with vs for our vermines, as with them also for the rootage out of their wild beasts.

1823 Lit. Examiner 27 Sept. 203 Since rootage at court is not..to be expected in any country,..both Nature and Philosophy would direct it..to follow the example of those British oaks..whose intuitive property it is..to..cling to the hardy gravel.

1874 A. G. Murdoch Sandy M'Tartan 22 The thistle-flow'r o' Scotland!—It finds fit rootage there.

1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion iii. i. 101 Our seeds of total life Find rootage, and..Redeem this desolation.

1885 Homiletic Rev. Sept. 232 Being destitute of rootage in the soil of faith.

1917 Trans. Wagner Free Inst. Sci. (Philadelphia) 8 42 Other forms would find suitable rootage in the deep alluvial soils of stream bottoms.

1961 Sci. News-Let. 79 176/2 If the white clover is the true shamrock, it is not found uniquely in Ireland... It grows wherever a chalk or limestone soil gives it favorable rootage.

2006 C. P. Lutz & R. O. Smith Christians & Land called Holy i. 25 Since 1967 the policies of Israeli governments have increasingly found rootage in divine authorization.

1855 Eclectic Rev. May 552 It is here that the loftiest flowers of life may be seen springing from the lowliest rootage of love.

1893 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 14 14 The later language has a host of such words, all of more or less spurious rootage.

1927 H. E. Fosdick Pilgrimage to Palestine 60 The very rootage from which came Aaron's rod that budded..the solemn monks still show to the visitor.

1977 L. H. Gunnemann Shaping of United Church of Christ vi. 163 The primal Puritan rootage of so much of American Protestantism.

1994 H. L. Gustafson Bonsai Workshop iii. 32 Surface rootage, as in all styles, must be well distributed around the trunk.