单词 | ollendorffian |
释义 | Ollendorffianadj. Now rare. Characteristic of the foreign-language textbooks of Ollendorff of his methodology for learning foreign languages; (also, more widely) representing or using stilted language of a kind characteristic of that found in some foreign-language phrasebooks. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > laboured or pedantic tricked1549 pedantical1592 laboured1613 pedantic1631 laborious1657 stiff1664 long-nebbed1818 stiltified1820 stiltish1824 overwrought1839 uncolloquial1840 stilty1845 Ollendorffian1848 literose1859 stilted1874 Hisperic1904 1848 Southern Q. Rev. 14 374 Thus the..word-building system of Germany, the revived Locke-and-Ascham plan of interlinear translation, and the Ollendorfian pet-parrot scheme..have been severally thrust forward. 1869 Putnam's Mag. July 125/2 Many a beginner will rejoice at being freed from the everlasting repetitions of the Ollendorfian systems, to be led so pleasantly up the steeps (for they are steeps) of the German language. 1892 New Rev. Feb. 252 But the characters have as much individuality as the Ollendorffian prattlers about the gardener. 1900 Sketch 21 Feb. 191/2 She persisted in firing off Ollendorfian French at the waiters. 1935 ‘G. Orwell’ Clergyman's Daughter iv. 224 A few Ollendorffian French sentences such as ‘Passez-moi le beurre, s'il vous plait’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1848 |
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