GROPE,
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. Isaiah 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, 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.
The King James Bible has stood its ground for nearly 400 years. However, during that time the English language has changed, and with it the meanings of some words it used. Here are more than 6,500 words whose definitions have changed since 1611.Wikipedia
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