See Also: Otto(dictionary)
Otto I(encyclopedia)
Otto III(encyclopedia)
Otto IV(encyclopedia)
Otto(medicine)
Dix, Otto(encyclopedia)
Meyerhof, Otto(medicine)
Madelung, Otto(medicine)
Hahn, Otto(encyclopedia)
Lubarsch, Otto(medicine)

ground(2) (iou) and Otto IV (sh)


ground(2) (iou)



ground ppl adjective. LME.
[pa. pple of GRIND verb.]
Reduced to fine particles by grinding or crushing. Also foll. by down. LME.
b. fig. Foll. by down: exhausted, worn out. E20.
c. Of meat: minced. Chiefly N. Amer. E20.
Shaped or sharpened by grinding; having the surface abraded or polished by grinding. L16.
Special collocations & comb.: ground-down a short thick pointed Sewing-needle. ground glass (a) powdered glass; (b) glass made semi-opaque by having its surface roughened. ground wood wood pulp.

Otto IV (sh)




or Otto of Brunswick

born 1175/1182
died May 19, 1218, Harzburg Castle, Lower Saxony

German king and Holy Roman emperor.

He was elected German king (1198) by the Guelph faction (see Guelphs and Ghibellines) but was opposed by the Hohenstaufens, who elected Philip of Swabia. The two factions were at war for several years, but after Philip's murder in 1208 a new election gave the throne to Otto. He was crowned emperor (1209) by Pope Innocent III after agreeing not to claim Sicily. When he violated this pact and conquered southern Italy (1210), the German princes invited Frederick II to replace him. With his uncle, John of England, Otto invaded France, Frederick's ally; defeated at the Battle of Bouvines, he was deposed in 1215.