Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The process of taking root, or the state of being rooted.
- noun In botany, the manner in which roots grow or are arranged.
- noun In zoology, fixation at the base, as if rooted; the state of being radicate or radicated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The process of taking root, or state of being rooted.
- noun (Bot.) The disposition of the roots of a plant.
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- noun The process of
taking root , or state of beingrooted . - noun botany The
disposition of theroots of aplant .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Gazing upon them, my heart softened and I almost forgave the gums their manifold iniquities, their diabolical thirst, their demoralizing aspect of precocious senility and vice, their peeling bark suggestive of unmentionable skin diseases, and that system of radication which is nothing short of a scandal on this side of the globe ....
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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Mthimkhulu, Hlengwa "was a radication of poverty and underdevelopment in the province".
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How do we link the land restitution, land redistribution to deal with the poverty, job creation and to make sure that the people whom the land has been given/return to them is sustainable and they are able to live, eat, feed their families, school, cloth children as part of poverty and radication, we need to eradicate poverty, feed poor South Africans.
SPEECH BY DLALI DURING THE AGRICULTURE AND LAND AFFAIRS DEBATE: BUDGET VOTE NO'S 26 & 30 2004
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So that an essential increase of charity means nothing else but that it is yet more in its subject, which implies a greater radication in its subject.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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Reply Obj. 3: Some have said that charity does not increase in its essence, but only as to its radication in its subject, or according to its fervor.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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But that was not acknowledged, nor could have been, we could see no misery as a hypothesis except in these two modes: First, as a radication in man by means of something else, some third thing.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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