Clipping:The meaning of 'to root'

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Date Thursday, July 25, 1889
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The verb “to root”... is entirely modern and is limited in circulation. It concerns an art invented by and practised chiefly by sporting men. This is the concentration of individual or aggregate psychic force upon the accomplishment of some particular effect desired by the rooter.

Source Brooklyn Eagle
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
Origin Initial Hershberger Clippings

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