[UN-1 8 c + ROOT v.1 6.] Not rooted out.
1550. Bale, Image both Churches, xiv. II. N j. Nothinge shalbe vnrooted out that the heauenly father hath not planted.
1567. Satir. Poems Reform., vi. 108. Leif nathing that belangis to the Paip Unrutit out as it had neuer bene.
1649. Milton, Eikon., xvii. 155. So long as they remain’d in any of his three Kingdoms unrooted out.
1661. Arnway, Tablet (ed. 3), 154. Can you imagine … The rooters up of Religion and Monarchy can be unrooted out; seeing the Loppers of the branches brak their neckes?
1859. Sala, Twice round Clock, 384. Gambling dens in Leicesterian slums, yet unrooted out by lynx-eyed policemen.
