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GROPE, v.i.

1. To feel along; to search or attempt to find in the dark, or as a blind person, by feeling.

We grope for the wall like the blind. Is.59.

The dying believer leaves the weeping children of mortality to grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities of a worldly life.

2. To seek blindly in intellectual darkness, without a certain guide or means of knowledge.

GROPE, v.t. To search by feeling in the dark.

We groped our way at midnight.

But Strephon, cautious, never meant

The bottom of the pan to grope.
1913 Definition
Grope (grope)
v. i.(gr1913 webster dictionaryp)
Grope
[imp. *** p. p. Groped (gr&omacr]pt); p. pr. *** vb. n. Groping.] [OE. gropen, gropien, grapien, AS. gr&amacr]pian to touch, grope, fr. gr***imacr]pan to
  1. To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
    [Obs.]
  2. To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see.

    We grope for the wall like the blind. Is. lix. 10.

    To grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities ot a worldly life. Buckminster.

  3. To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight.
  4. To examine; to test; to sound.
    [Obs.] Chaucer.

    Felix gropeth him, thinking to have a bribe. Genevan Test. (Acts xxiv. ).

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