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Wrack4. World English Historical Dictionary

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Wrack4. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Wrack4 freq. erron. f. RACK v.3

1 1553–5.  Latimer, in Strype, Eccl. Mem. (1721), III. App. xxxv. 98. The Martyrs in the old Time were wracked.

2 1622.  Fletcher, Sea Voy., I. i. The Money I ha wrackt by usury.

3 a. 1637.  B. Jonson, Discov., Wks. (1641), 118. Doubtfull writing hath wrackt mee beyond my patience.

4 1674.  N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., To Rdr. As the one had wrackt and limm’d my thoughts, with endless tenters.

5 1683.  Cave, Ecclesiastici, Eusebius, 33. The Church rather expounds the Opinion … into a favourable sence, than nicely weighs and wracks their words.

6 1720.  Welton, Suffer. Son of God, II. xiv. 370. What great Concern wracks the Spirit of a faithful Servant of God.

7 1721.  Strype, Eccl. Mem., II. II. xiv. 353. Landlords had now so wracked their rents.

8 1756.  Monitor, No. 72. II. 197. If they wrack their brains … to find out [etc.].

9 1785.  Burns, Scotch Drink, i. Let … Crabbit names an’ stories wrack us, An’ grate our lug.

10 1895.  Parkhurst, in Advance (Chicago), 7 March, 808/2. Sin … wracks the machinery of the mind.

11 1893.  Daily News, 31 Aug., 5/3. They themselves are wracking their busy brains.

12   absol.  1607.  Shaks., Cor., V. i. 16. A paire of Tribunes, that haue wrack’d for Rome, To make Coales cheape.

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