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the place where something begins, where it springs into being
communism's Russian root
Jupiter was the origin of the radiation
the Italian beginning of the Renaissance
Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River -
fixedness by or as if by roots
strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith - a developed system of roots
How To Use rootage In A Sentence
- It had a pointed roof of some rough material, dull under the sun, and gave rootage in places to vines, even a small tree. Galactic Derelict
- strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith
- This morainial deposit which offered rootage for the trees and bushes was but a narrow streak -- a sort of an island on the glacier. On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake
- Springing from the twin rootage of Magna Charta and the Declaration of Independence, his judicial statesmanship finds no parallel in the salient features of its achievement outside our own annals. John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court
- They have left their homes, they have left their kindred, they have broken all the nearest and dearest ties of human life in order to come to a new land, take a new rootage, begin a new life, and so by self-sacrifice express their confidence in a new principle; whereas, it cost us none of these things. America First Patriotic Readings
- Its flatiron-shaped pebble-beach jutted out from the lake's west shore and was covered with fine old forest trees garlanded with vines; and from their graveled rootage there gurgled a limpid spring of sweet waters. James Fenimore Cooper
- After such fashion and with thorough rootage in country life must the minister of today turn to spiritual account the wealth-producing methods of farming. The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work
- By this trained personality -- the heart that has been led to live with Christ awhile, and then go forth in his name and filled with his love to the hearts that have place for that love and rootage for that life -- this wonderful product of our Christian civilization has everywhere been produced. The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 12, December, 1889
- The effect of different hormone concentration on the multiplication and rootage of Dutch gardenia was studied using the asepsis seedlings of Dutch gardenia as explants.
- Yet it must be observed that even the stablest of them are essentially the creatures of the political leaders and that at no time have they exhibited the broadly national rootage of political parties in other states of western Europe. The Governments of Europe
