parrotize
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2VERB + PARROTIZE
learn, speaks
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To parrot; to repeat what one has been told.
How often is the nonsense and error of the common translation, the rudeness and dulness of the metre of some Psalms, as Psal. vii. 13, as also the cold formality with which that ordinance is performed by many who do but parrotize?
Children learn to parrotize on the subject; and young people imagine that the superstructure of their religion is complete, when even the first stone of the building is not firmly laid.
To cause to behave like a parrot.
To deal, then, in verbal abstractions, and to attempt the communication of ideas to children who have yet to become acquainted with their prototypes in nature, is, indeed, (in the language of our author) to parrotize them.
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3How often is the nonsense and error of the common translation, the rudeness and dulness of the metre of some Psalms, as Psal. vii. 13, as also the cold formality with which that ordinance is performed
WiktionaryChildren learn to parrotize on the subject; and young people imagine that the superstructure of their religion is complete, when even the first stone of the building is not firmly laid.
WiktionaryGray Gravity it selfe can well beteam, That Language be adapted to the Theme. He that to Parrots speaks, must parrotize: He that instructs a foole, may act th' unwise.
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