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Definition of Rootage
1. Noun. Fixedness by or as if by roots. "Strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith"
2. Noun. A developed system of roots.
3. Noun. The place where something begins, where it springs into being. "Communism's Russian root"
Specialized synonyms: Derivation, Spring, Fountainhead, Head, Headspring, Headwater, Wellhead, Wellspring, Jumping-off Place, Point Of Departure, Birthplace, Cradle, Place Of Origin, Provenance, Provenience, Home, Point Source, Trail Head, Trailhead
Generic synonyms: Point
Derivative terms: Originate, Root, Root
Definition of Rootage
1. a system of roots [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rootage
Literary usage of Rootage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readings on Parties and Elections in the United States by Chester Lloyd Jones (1912)
"only objects are distant and general objects, without local rootage or ...
His lieutenants do not expect national rewards: their vital rootage is the ..."
2. Readings on Parties and Elections in the United States by Chester Lloyd Jones (1912)
"only objects are distant and general objects, without local rootage or ...
His lieutenants do not expect national rewards: their vital rootage is the ..."
3. Readings in Civil Government by Percy Lewis Kaye (1910)
"His lieutenants do not expect national rewards: their vital rootage is the rootage
of local opportunity. Just because, therefore, there is nowhere else in ..."
4. Constitutional Government in the United States by Woodrow Wilson (1917)
"His lieutenants do not expect national rewards: their vital rootage is the rootage
of local opportunity. Just because, therefore, there is nowhere else in ..."
5. The English Rock-garden by Reginald John Farrer (1919)
"... yet there the Daphne roots deep down into nothing, sending its fat masses of
yellow rootage browsing far in, with only the lime of the rock to feed them ..."
6. The Literary Examiner: Consisting of the Indicator, a Review of Books, and by Leigh Hunt (1823)
"And since rootage at court is not, under circumstances so inauspicious, to be
expected in any country, for the nobler species of Painting, both. ..."
7. With Our Faces in the Light by Frederick Palmer (1917)
"He was only paying his debt to the mother earth of his rootage with his ...
How much we owe to this new land, fallow to our rootage, pliant to our shaping! ..."
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