v. Only in pa. pple. Also 5 enrot, 9 inroot. [f. EN-1 + ROOT.] trans.
1. To fix by the root.
1490. Caxton, Eneydos (1889), 17. Smalle busshes or lytyll trees, by humydite and hete, depely enroted in the erthe.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., III. iii. 22. And eke enrooted deepe must be that Tree, Whose big embodied braunches shall not lin Till they to hevens hight forth stretched bee.
1836–9. Todd, Cycl. Anat., II. 553/1. In old persons close to the entrance [of the ear] hairs … are enrooted.
b. fig. To implant deeply in the mind; to fix firmly in custom or habit.
1596. Spenser, Hymn Heav. Love, 24. The guilt of that infected cryme which was enrooted in all fleshly slyme.
1688. Jas. II., Let. Feversham, in 4th Coll. Papers Pres. Juncture Affairs, 28. Your former Principles are so enrooted in you.
1805. Ann. Rev., III. 255. It has not the courage of the antient parliaments, because it is less inrooted.
2. To entangle root with root.
1597. Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., IV. i. 207. His foes are so en-rooted with his friends, That plucking to vnfixe an Enemie, Hee doth vnfasten so, and shake a friend.
