parrotise
English
Verb
parrotise (third-person singular simple present parrotises, present participle parrotising, simple past and past participle parrotised)
- Alternative form of parrotize
- 1842, The Monthly Review, page 505:
- Indeed, I am not acquainted with any system, whether intended or not to intellectualise, that does positively anything else than parrotise the pupil.
- 1995, A. G. Khan, Canadian Literature and Indian Literature: New Perspectives, page 10:
- How can a community threatened with loss of identity and an endangered survival afford to "parrotise", "A book of verse underneath the spreading bough" - the natural response is "to hack with the wine and loaf (65).
- 1995, Osarẹn S. B. Ọmọregie, Stem, Steps and Caps: A History of Christ's Chosen Church of God, →ISBN:
- The divers tongues are not intended to be studiously learnt or dramatically parrotised as some church leaders would want to drag adherents into.
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