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▪ I. † ˈeducate
obs. and Sc. pa. pple. of next.
1536Act 27 Hen. VIII, xlii. in Oxf. & Camb. Enactm. 11 Where yowth and good wyttes be educate and norysshed. 1861Ramsay Remin. v. (ed. 18) 118 The hospital where Eppie was educate.
▪ II. educate, v.|ˈɛdjʊkeɪt|
[f. L. ēducāt- ppl. stem of ēducāre to rear, bring up (children, young animals), related to ēdūcĕre to lead forth (see educe), which is sometimes used nearly in the same sense.]
trans. or absol.
†1. To rear, bring up (children, animals) by supply of food and attention to physical wants. Obs.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 229 The Epirotan & Siculian horses are not to be despised, if they were well bred & educated. 1651Wittie tr. Primrose's Pop. Err. 292 A boy of a good habit of body, with large veines, well and freely educated. 1690[see educated]. 1818[see 2].
2. To bring up (young persons) from childhood, so as to form (their) habits, manners, intellectual and physical aptitudes.
1618Bolton Florus i. i. 3 Himselfe delighting in the Rivers and Mountaines, among which he had beene educated. 1818Cruise Digest VI. 336 A devise..to the intent that with the profits he should educate his daughter. 1839tr. Lamartine's Trav. East 168/1 The principal amongst them [Greeks] have their children educated in Hungary. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 40 The youth of a people should be educated in forms and strains of virtue.
b. To instruct, provide schooling for (young persons).
1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. i. 84 Do you not educate youth at the Charg-house on the top of the Mountaine? 1863M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer's Greece I. i. 13 It has educated, and it educates to this day, a great portion of the Athenian female youth of all classes. 1863A. Tylor Educ. & Manuf. 40 It costs 8d. per week to educate a child.
3. To train (any person) so as to develop the intellectual and moral powers generally.
1849Kingsley Lett. (1878) I. 198 In my eyes the question is not what to teach, but how to Educate. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 120 Elder men, if they want to educate others, should begin by educating themselves. 1886Pall Mall G. 10 July 4/2 Our artists are not educated at all, they are only trained.
4. To train, discipline (a person, a class of persons, a particular mental or physical faculty or organ), so as to develop some special aptitude, taste, or disposition. Const. to, also inf.
1841–4Emerson Ess. Hist. Wks. (Bohn) I. 11 And the habit of supplying his own needs educates the body to wonderful performances. 1847― Repr. Men. v. Shaks. ibid. I. 359 Our ears are educated to music by his rhythm. 1867Disraeli in Scotsman 30 Oct., I had to prepare the mind of the country, and to educate,—if not too arrogant to use such a phrase,—our party. Mod. He is educating himself to eat tomatoes.
b. To train (animals).
1850Lang Wand. India 2 No horses, except those educated in India, would crawl into these holes cut out of the earth and rock. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxix. 389 The dogs of Smith's Sound are educated more thoroughly than any of their more southern brethren. |