teachn.
/tiːtʃ/, U.S. /titʃ/ colloquial.
= teacher n. 2a.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun]
schoolmasterc1225
pedagoguea1387
pedanty1573
pedanta1586
dominiea1625
Khoja1625
schoolteachera1691
knight of the grammar1692
boy farmer1869
schoolkeeper1871
faki1872
professor1880
beak1888
schoolie1889
grade teacher1906
master teacher1931
chalk-and-talker1937
sir1955
teach1958
1958 F. Norman Bang to Rights iii. 90 ‘Now now give him a chance,’ said the teach.
1976 A. Hill Summer's End i. 6 ‘I always suspected it, Hill,’ Teach had called across the classroom.
1976 A. Hill Summer's End i. 9 The Teach with the cardboard box stopped in front of each kid and gave him or her a paper bag.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
teachv.
/tiːtʃ/, U.S. /titʃ//tɔːt/;α. Old English getǽhte, Old English táhte (northern), Old English–Middle English tǽhte, Middle English tacht (Scottish), Middle English tachte, Middle English taght, Middle English taghte, Middle English taghtte, Middle English taȝt, Middle English taȝte, Middle English tahhte, Middle English tahte, Middle English taughte, Middle English tauȝt, Middle English tauȝte, Middle English tauht, Middle English tauhte, Middle English taut, Middle English taute, Middle English tawght, Middle English tawghte, Middle English tawȝt, Middle English tawht, Middle English tawhte, Middle English tawt, Middle English tochte, Middle English toght, Middle English towght, Middle English–1500s taucht (Scottish), Middle English–1500s tawcht (Scottish), Middle English– taught, 1500s tought. a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iii. viii. [x.] 180 Him mon setl tæhte.c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Mark xii. 38 And tahte vel lærde ðæm vel him [L. et docebat eis]. [So 975 Rushw. Gosp.]c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 68 Symle ðu tæhtest mildheortnysse.c1050 Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia (1885) 8 304 An snotor wita me getæhte þisne cræft.c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1071 Hiss boc himm tahhte.a1200 Vices & Virtues 27 Ðis ne tahte ðe non eorðlic mann.a1200 Moral Ode 268 Al þet þe laþe gast hechte to and tachte.a1225 Juliana 62 Þat te engel to þe tahten.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 404 Brutus heom taute [c1300 Otho tehte].a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3292 God tagte hem weie.c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 196 God þat þam it tauht.c1386 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale 36 As thilke hooly Iew oure eldres taughte [v.rr. taghte, tauȝt, tauȝte, tauht].1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 285 Nature..tawht hem so.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 741 Graitli taght [Fairf. 14 taȝt, Trin. Cambr. tauȝte] he him þe gin.1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 12 And tawth hyr the feyth of Crist Jesu.c1450 (c1400) Emaré (1908) 973 Emare thawȝte her sone ȝynge.1451 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert 87 He taute hem ferþermor oþir vertues.c1460 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Laud) l. 17074 Ther tawghtyst [a1400 Trin. Cambr. tauȝtest] þou vs the way.c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 42 Þus He tawt hem to do.1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ii. 130 He taucht him siluer to dispend.c1500 King & Hermit in M. M. Furrow Ten 15th-cent. Comic Poems (1985) 260 And tauȝht hym priuely to a sted To feche þe hors corne and bred.1569 R. Grafton Chron. I. ii. 15 Those also he taught his inuention.
β. Middle English taihte, Middle English taite, Middle English têhte, Middle English teiȝte, Middle English teihte, Middle English teite. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 107 He us tehte.c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 83 Þe tehte..alle wise witeȝe here wisdom.c1200 Moral Ode 272 in Trin. Coll. Hom. 228 Al þat þe loðe gost hem tihte to and taihte.a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 70 He teihte us openliche.a1275 Prov. Ælfred 634 in Old Eng. Misc. 136 Wel worþe þe wid, Þad þe first taite.c1290 Christopher 173 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 276 Cristofre heom teiȝte þe riȝte bi-leue.c1300 Harrow. Hell (Digby MS.) 233 Þou teitest me þene riȝte wey.
γ. Middle English teched, Middle English techid, Middle English–1500s techit (Scottish), 1500s teiched (Scottish), 1500s teichet (Scottish), 1500s teichit (Scottish), 1500s–1600s (1800s– dialect) teached. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12180 Maister leui, þat ald man, Teched [Gött. Techid] him a letter þan.c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 35 [He] techit the folk of that contree, to mak housis.1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 232 (margin) Godlie men..quha..teiched the Scotis.1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 242 Sigenie, a Scotis Preist..teichet his peiple.1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 714 They were taught, and teached not.1890 ‘W. A. Wallace’ Only a Sister x. 75 Old Mary Morley teached me that when I was growed up.
5. Past participle.α. Old English getǽht, Middle English itaȝt, Middle English itaught, Middle English itauȝt, Middle English itawt, Middle English taght, Middle English taȝt, Middle English tahht, Middle English taht, Middle English tauȝt, Middle English tauht, Middle English taut, Middle English tauwȝt, Middle English tawcht (Scottish), Middle English tawȝt, Middle English tawht, Middle English toght, Middle English towght, Middle English ytawȝt, Middle English y-tawȝtte, Middle English–1500s taucht (Scottish), Middle English– taught, 1500s tought. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 18741 He þuss haffde uss tahht.a1300 Floriz & Bl. 404 Floris hath iwroȝt As daris him haþ itaȝt [v.r. itawt].1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 217 We weren tauht Of oure doctourus dere.1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xx. 185 Euelytawȝte elde.c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 157 No man schulde here goddis lawe tauwȝt.c1386 G. Chaucer Melibeus ⁋300 Whiche of hem han..taught yow best conseil.1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 118 The king hath..His brother tawht.c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. xi. 169 I grette..his wyf..And tolde hire þe tokenes þat me I-tauȝt were.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 24243 Ik haf him taht [Fairf. 14 taȝt, Gött. taght, Vesp. tagh] to þi seruis.14.. Six Ballads (Percy Soc. No. 50) 14 I wyll nowyse be towght.c1480 (a1400) St. Paul 201 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 34 To thre knychttis þane wes he tawcht.a1500 Whate-ever thow Sey (Trin. Cambr. O.9.38) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 357 The wyse man hath hys sone y-tawȝtte.c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 881 The tokyn hym taght.c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 9232 When he hade..toght hym to go.1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome i. f. 6v That Christ himselfe had tought.1573 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlii. 20 His toung weill taucht.1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires ii. vii. 125 But should not you with heavier Stripes be taught?
β. Middle English teched, Middle English techid, 1500s techit (Scottish), 1500s teichit (Scottish), 1500s–1600s (1800s– dialect) teached. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18760 Quen iesus had..teched þam al þat he wild.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 6450 Grete chargis..þat fell to gastlines, Suld techid be thoru moyses.1544 R. Tracy Supplycacion to Kynge Henry VIII sig. Biijv He hathe enstructe and teached the people.1578 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 31 Is this ȝour sone..[That] hes bene teichit.
Signification.
I. To show, etc. [Old English or early Middle English (except sense 3b).] † 1. transitive. To show, present or offer to view.† 2. To show or point out (a thing, the way, a place, etc.) to a person. Obsolete.† 3. † 4. To show what is to be observed or done; to direct, appoint, prescribe, decree, enjoin. Const. as in II. Obsolete or absorbed in II.
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a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. iv. i. §2 (MS. T) Tæhte þa þam biscope..sumne gedefne munuc, þæs noma wæs Andreas.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > indication > pointing out > point out [verb (transitive)]
teacha900
showa1225
brevea1377
ensign1477
point1477
note1521
demonstrate1534
appointa1547
to put (also lay) one's (also the) finger on1574
remark1592
outpoint1595
finger1619
clewa1625
notice1627
denote1632
indicate1651
to index outa1796
a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. iii. viii. [x.] Him mon setl tæhte, and he sæt mid him æt þæm symble.
a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. v. xvii. [xix.] §4.
971 Blickl. Hom. 109 Þa men þe bearn habban..him tæcean lifes weg.
c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) xxviii. 173 Ic tæce sumum men his weg.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3292 God tagte hem weie, wis and pert.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 7836 He..went with þo worthy, & þe way taght.
a. To show (a person) the way; to direct, conduct, convoy, guide (to, from a place); to send away; also, to direct or refer (to something). Obsolete.Originally with dative of person and prep. (to, into, over, from), as if elliptical for teach him (the way) to a place.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > show (the way) [verb (transitive)] > lead back
teachc893
forleadOE
to lead the wayc1175
kenc1200
dressc1330
lerec1330
guy1362
guidec1374
reduce?a1425
tell1485
way lead1485
arrect1530
reconduct1566
reduct1580
c893 tr. Orosius Hist. iii. iii. §1 Ic gehwam wille þærto [= to þinum bocum] tæcan þe hiene his lyst ma to witanne.
925–35 Laws of Athelstan ii. c. 22 Non mon ne tæce his getihtledan mon from him.
OE Genesis 2901 On þære stowe þe him se stranga to, wærfæst metod wordum tæhte.
OE Rule St. Benet (Corpus Cambr.) lviii. 97 Tæce him mon siððan to nigcumenra manna huse.
c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 129 I shal my self to herbes techen yow That shul been for youre hele.
a1400 K. Alis. 5206 He hem tauȝtte ouer a wode.
a1400 K. Alis. (Bodl.) 5204 He shulde hem teche to sum Ryuere.
c1425 Cast. Persev. 553 in Macro Plays 93 Þou art a nobyl knawe to techyn men fyrst fro goode!
a1440 Sir Degrev. 914 Damesel..Teche me to that ylke place.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xx. 316 Oo hym taught in-to a chamber wher thei were.
c1500 King & Hermit in M. M. Furrow Ten 15th-cent. Comic Poems (1985) 253 Late þi knaue go To teche me a myle or two.
b. Shipbuilding. (absol.) Of a line: To point in a particular direction.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [verb (intransitive)] > point in certain direction (of line)
teach1850
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 155 We say, ‘let the line or mould teach fair to such a spot’.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. To Teach, in marine architecture, is applied to the direction which any line or curve seems to point out.
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society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > ordain, prescribe, or appoint
asetc885
teachc897
deemc900
ashapea1000
i-demeOE
setc1000
shiftc1000
stevenOE
redeOE
willOE
lookc1175
showc1175
stablea1300
devise1303
terminea1325
shapec1330
stightlea1375
determinec1384
judgea1387
sign1389
assize1393
statute1397
commanda1400
decree1399
yarka1400
writec1405
decreetc1425
rule1447
stallc1460
constitute1481
assignc1485
institute1485
prescribec1487
constitue1489
destinate1490
to lay down1493
make?a1513
call1523
plant1529
allot1532
stint1533
determ1535
appointa1538
destinec1540
prescrive1552
lot1560
fore-appoint1561
nominate1564
to set down1576
refer1590
sort1592
doom1594
fit1600
dictate1606
determinate1636
inordera1641
state1647
fix1660
direct1816
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xxi. 161 Eft he him tæhte to fultome ðæt he him gename ane iserne hearstepannan.
c1000 Ælfric Exodus xix. 12 Þu tæcst Israhela folce gemæro abutan þone munt.
a1023 Wulfstan Homilies xxxiii. 165 Þæt hy betan heora misdæda, swa swa bec tæcan.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 107 Uten don elmessen swa he us tehte, gode to luue.
c1250 Long Life 23 in Old Eng. Misc. 156 Do ase he [Solomon] þe tahte [v.r. tauhte].
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 431 Cerimonyes of þe olde lawe..ben tauht to be left.
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. ii. 7 I lokede on þe luft half as þe ladi me tauhte.
c1420 Chron. Vilod. 3838 Þe whyche tauȝt hym euer to don amys.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 45 Syne he did his Apostillis teiche Throw all the warld for to pas.
II. To show by way of information or instruction. (Now the leading sense.)In this group the original construction had an accusative of the thing imparted, with dative of the person or recipient when expressed. The loss of the dative inflexion, or, as in the pronouns, its identification with the accusative, was sometimes replaced by the preposition to, but oftener left two objects, of which the indirect, denoting the recipient, became more and more viewed as the direct object, and as such was made the subject of the passive voice, not only when the original direct object was an infinitive, as he was taught to dance, but even when it was a n., as he was taught Latin, in preference to Latin was taught him.
5. to teach a thing: To impart or convey the knowledge of; to give instruction or lessons in (a subject); †to make known, deliver (a message). With simple object or object clause.
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society > education > teaching > [verb (transitive)] > teach (a thing)
to teach a thing971
learnc1175
kena1225
informa1393
showa1400
informc1400
precept?a1475
instruct?1520
to take forth1530
to take out1586
grind1815
971 Blickl. Hom. 43 Þa mæsse-preostas..sceolan heora scrift-bec mid rihte tæcan and læran.
?a1000 K. Ælfred's Boeth. xxxiv. §9 (MS. B.) Þæt þu..ne forgite þæt þæt ic ær tæhte.
c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 322 Se Halga Gast ðe tæhð rihtwisnysse.
a1175 Cott. Hom. 229 [Christ] tochte richwisnesse and soðfestnesse.
1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 1077 Þis kariede sonde Þat þus tiþinge tolde & tauhte þis wordus.
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 235 Crist & his apostlis tauten neuere..siche profession.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1485 Þou hatȝ for-ȝeten ȝederly þat ȝisterday I taȝtte.
c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 12 He cam first hom..and þer taute he gramer.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xlij The Preachers shall teache the Gospell.
1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 85 Quhy tech ȝe that thai are all indifferentlie of ane efficacitie?
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler To Rdr. 4 To teach the Art of Fencing. View more context for this quotation
1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ xvi He was convinced of the truth of what he taught.
1910 N.E.D. at Teach Mod. What subjects does he teach in the school?
6. to teach a person a thing, a thing to a person (or agent):figurative.c1400 Rom. Rose 3319 He tought it [my heart] so hym for to obey.1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 126 To teach dangers to come on, by ouer early Buckling towards them, is another Extreme.1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island xi. iv. 146 Thou..taught'st his heart to frame his Canto's best.1717 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad III. ix. 723 Is it for him these Tears are taught to flow?1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 62 James's lank hair..was taught to curl gracefully à la Brutus.
a. To communicate something to a person, by way of instruction; †to inform.
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society > communication > information > action of informing > give (information) [verb (transitive)] > inform (a person)
to teach a person a thingc888
meanOE
wiseOE
sayOE
wittera1225
tellc1225
do to witc1275
let witc1275
let seec1330
inform1384
form1399
lerea1400
to wit (a person) to saya1400
learn1425
advertise1431
givec1449
insense?c1450
instruct1489
ascertain1490
let1490
alighta1500
advert1511
signify1523
reform1535
advise1562
partake1565
resolve1568
to do to ware1594
to let into one's knowledge1596
intellect1599
possess1600
acquainta1616
alighten1615
recommenda1616
intelligence1637
apprise1694
appraise1706
introduce1741
avail1785
prime1791
document1807
to put up1811
to put a person au fait of1828
post1847
to keep (someone) straight1862
monish1866
to put next to1896
to put (one) wise (to)1896
voice1898
in the picture1900
to give (someone) a line on1903
to wise up1905
drum1908
hip1932
to fill (someone) in on1945
clue1948
background1961
to mark a person's card1961
to loop in1994
c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxviii. § 3 Ic þe mæg giet tæcan oðer þing.
a1050 in Sax. Leechd. III. 256 Eac gewisse dægmæl us swa tæcað.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 99 Ure helende sat ofte and tahte wisdom þan þe him folȝeden.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 4827 Ȝif ȝe nolle englissemen godes lawes teche.
13.. K. Alis. (Linc. Inn MS.) 3141 Bote he beo wel ytauȝt, Wiþoute skorn passiþ he nouȝt.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 24306 To techen þaim quat tai sul do[n].
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 36 Thynges that I shal teche the.
1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 38v I praie you teache me one or twoo kindes of Pilles.
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. L8 Thinking how all doth flee Whatever we have painfully ytaught.
1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. vi. 108 Thou Hector to the Town retire, And teach our Mother what the Gods require.
a1771 T. Gray Agrippina in Poems (1775) 133 Wrinkled beldams Teach it their grandchildren.
1820 W. Scott Monastery III. x. 248 I see it is ill done to teach the cat the way to the kirn.
1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. xii. 667 It was English literature which taught the lessons of political liberty, first to France, and through France to the rest of Europe.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §1. 352 The sufferings of the Protestants had failed to teach them the worth of religious liberty.
b. The subject of the passive voice was originally the thing taught; it is now usually the person or indirect object.
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1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 363 Upon the pointz, as we ben taught, Stant sacrilege.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16324 Qui askes þou, it es þe forthwit taght.
1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 13v As huswiues are teached, in stead of a clock, how winter nights passeth, by crowing of cock.
1637 (title) Romvlvs and Tarqvin. First Written in Italian by the Marques Virgilio Malvezzi: And now taught [= translated into] English, by H. C[arey].
1745 Bp. J. Butler Serm. in Wks. (1874) II. 276 It is true..children may be taught superstition, under the notion of religion.
1825 R. H. Froude Remains (1838) I. 190 I am being taught French.
c. With the thing taught expressed by an infinitive (or noun clause): To show or make known to a person (how to do something, etc.).
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971 Blickl. Hom. 43 Þa lareowas sceolan synnfullum mannum eadmodlice tæcan and læran þæt, hie [etc.].
?a1000 K. Ælfred's Boethius Final Prayer (MS. B.) Tæc me þinne willan to wyrcenne.
c1250 O. Kentish Serm. in Old Eng. Misc. 35 Ne apostle ne prechur..ne hem tachte hu [h]i solde [etc.].
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 2197 Ȝe beþ men bet iteiȝt [v.rr. ytaȝt, ytauȝt] to ssofle & to spade.
a1352 L. Minot Poems (1914) ix. 3 Þe north end of Ingland teched him to daunce.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15373 I sal yow teche him for to knau.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur vii. xvii. 238 His [the red knight's] wyly fyghtyng taughte syr Beaumayns to be wyse.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 342v For which we saie in Englyshe to teache our dame to spynne.
1616 Withal's Dict. 575 You teach your good Maister: teach your grandam to grope her duck.
1751 T. Gray Elegy xxi. 9 Many a holy text..that teach the rustic moralist to dye.
1868 J. Ruskin Let. in Pall Mall Gaz. 31 Jan. 3/1 Education..means teaching children to be clean, active, honest, and useful.
d. Used by way of threat: To let one know the cost or penalty of something. Also without direct object.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten (evil, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > make threats against > let (one) know the penalty of something
to teach a person a thing1575
larn1790
I'll learn you1822
1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle iii. iii. sig. Ciiiv & I get once on foote..ile teach the what longs to it.
a1625 J. Fletcher Mad Lover iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Cv/2 Ile teach ye to be treacherous.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 13 I'll teach you how to brag another time.
1778 F. Burney Evelina II. v. 53 She will..teach you to know who she is.
?1863 T. Taylor Ticket-of-leave Man ii. 33 Sam! is it? Confound him! I'll teach him.
1889 A. Lang Prince Prigio ii. 10 I'll teach you to be too clever, my lad.
e. teach yourself phr. (a subject): verbal phrase used attributively to designate a textbook or manual intended for use without the assistance of a teacher.The phrase is derived from the titles of books in the Teach Yourself series, published from 1938.
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society > communication > book > kind of book > textbook or book of instructions > [adjective]
manual1504
institutional1765
textual1862
teach yourself1938
1938 M. Thomas (title) Teach yourself embroidery.
1960 G. Butler Death lives Next Door He was..going through the Catalogue issued with the Teach Yourself Everything Series.
1961 Guardian 4 Feb. 14/6 As I was taught in a teach-yourself book.
1978 P. O'Donnell Dragon's Claw ii. 29 I usually spend a few hours with the tape recorder and a Teach Yourself Russian course.
7.
a. to teach a person or agent (with personal object only): To impart knowledge to, give instruction to; to inform, instruct, educate, train, school. to teach (a) school: see school n.1 Phrases 1a.
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society > education > teaching > [verb (transitive)]
i-taechec888
lerec900
iwisseOE
to teach a personc1000
wisc1000
ylereOE
avayc1315
readc1330
learna1382
informc1384
beteacha1400
form1399
kena1400
redec1400
indoctrinea1450
instructc1449
ensign1474
doctrine1475
introduct1481
lettera1500
endoctrinec1500
to have (a person) in schooling?1553
lesson1555
tutor1592
orthographize1596
pupil1599
con1612
indoctrinate1621
art1628
doctrinate1631
document1648
verse1672
documentizea1734
form1770
intuit1776
skill1809
indoctrinize1861
c1000 Laws Eccl. Instit. 20 in B. Thorpe Anc. Laws Eng. (1840) II. 414 Hig sceolon swiðe lustlice his onfon, and him estlice tæcan.
c1250 Hymn Virg. 34 in Trin. Coll. Hom. 256 Maide dreiȝ & wel itaucht.
a1275 Prov. Ælfred 442 in Old Eng. Misc. 129 He sal banne þat wiȝt Þat him first taȝte.
c1325 Spec. Gy Warw. 570 Houre swete lord..Hise deciples began to teche.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. i. 120 Ȝe sholde be here fadres and techen hem betere.
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope iii He whiche will teche and lerne some other, ought first to corryge & examyne hym self.
1558 Peebles Burgh Rec. (1872) 244 The haill inqueist ordanis Walter Haldane to teche thair Grammare Scoill.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 110 A wyfe..weil taucht and brocht vp.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 446 All Nations they shall teach. View more context for this quotation
1722 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 75 A charity school..for teaching and instructing poor children in.
1877–9 J. Ruskin St. Mark's Rest ii. §18 There is nothing like a little work with the fingers for teaching the eyes.
1908 E. Fowler Between Trent & Ancholme 21 Master Teanby..taught him and others.
b. With prepositional complements ( to teach of, etc.). †to teach to: to train to, to accustom to the use or practice of (obsolete).
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society > education > teaching > training > train [verb (transitive)]
to teach of1297
exercec1374
informc1384
schoolc1456
break1474
instruct1510
nuzzle1519
train1531
train1542
frame1547
experience?c1550
to trade up1556
disciplinea1586
disciple1596
nursle1596
accommodate1640
educate1643
model1665
form1711
to break in1785
scholar1807
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (transitive)] > accustom (a person)
weanc960
wonc1175
to teach to1297
usec1300
usec1405
accustom1422
wontc1440
custom?c1450
enure1489
inure1489
induce1490
habituate1530
ure1530
usage1530
trade1539
to trade up1556
exercise1558
flesh1591
habit?1615
habitate1621
occasion1684
usen1715
usen1861
ethize1876
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 2197 Men bet iteiȝt to ssofle & to spade.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xxi. 17 There he dwelte, and tauȝte hem of the kyngdam of God.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 6659 A clerke..Þat couthe teche his men to faythe.
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) i. iii. sig. B.iiij I haue not bene taught to kissing and licking.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 166 These Lions..are taught to it, when they are young.
8. absol. or intransitive. To communicate knowledge; to act as a teacher; to give instruction.
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society > education > teaching > [verb (intransitive)]
teachc1000
c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 242 gif se lareow wel tæce..doð swa swa he tæcð.
1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 237 Folk þat fain is to teche.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xi. 1 Jhesus..passide fro thennes for to preche and teche in the citees of hem.
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xlv. 178 The whiche prophesied and tawte aȝenst synne.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Teache in a schole, didascolo.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvii. 158 One that teacheth by publique Authority.
1674 Warrant for appreh. Bunyan 15 Mar. One John Bunnyon..Tynker hath divers times within one month last past..preached or teached at a Conventicle meeteing or assembly.
1878 R. W. Dale Lect. Preaching (ed. 3) viii. 226 He must learn how to teach.
III. To hand over, commit, and related uses.† 9. † b. To commend or commit (a person) to God; to bid adieu to; to wish (good day) to: cf. beteach v. 4. Obsolete. rare.
a. To deliver, hand over, give; to give in trust, commit, entrust, commend to the keeping of some one. Obsolete.In Old English usually expressed by betǽcan, beteach v.; even quot. c1000 below is difficult to separate from sense 4.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > care for, protect, or have charge of [verb (transitive)] > commit to care or custody of another
givea1000
beteachc1000
teachc1000
betake1297
trust1340
bekena1375
commenda1382
putc1390
recommanda1393
commitc1405
recommendc1405
resignc1425
allot1473
commise1474
commanda1500
consign1528
in charge (of)1548
credit1559
incommend1574
entrusta1586
aret1590
be-giftc1590
concredit1593
betrust1619
concrede1643
subcommit1681
to farm out1786
confide1861
fide1863
doorstep1945
to foster out1960
c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 46 Ða gesetnysse ðe us Moyses tæhte [L. tradidit nobis Moyses].
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11277 Ich tache þe mine leofen sunen.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2214 Hauelok his sone he him tauhte, And hise two douhtres, and al his auhte.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15411 In handes yur i sal him teche.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15349 His bodi suld be taght His fas þat war felun.
c1420 Anturs of Arth. 605 Swylke a touche at þat tyme he taughte hym in tene.
c1480 (a1400) St. Lawrence 84 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 404 To sancte syxt þane tacht [he] It.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) x. 43 To the gud lorde of Douglas,..He taucht the archaris euirilkane.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use courteous actions or expressions to [verb (transitive)] > bid farewell to
beteachc1314
bid farewella1400
teacha1400
to beteach one good dayc1400
to bid (also say) adieu (to)c1425
farewella1586
lenvoy1596
adieu1602
speed1726
to tell a person goodbye1853
sayonara1883
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 8068 Þe kyng..tauȝte hem god & good day.
c1400 Rowland & O. 1268 Charlles..Taughte hym to godde.
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intransitive. Education (originally U.S.). to teach to (also for) the test: to teach students (only) the material likely to appear in a forthcoming (usually standardized or widely administered) exam, esp. when such teaching is regarded as superficial or inadequate.
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1959 N.Y. Times 17 Feb. 33/3 Both agreed that tests were valuable but that any one national test for all schools..would be harmful... Teachers might teach for the test and..curriculums might be adapted to it.
1963 D. A. Goslin Search for Ability i. iv. 93 We need to know to what extent teachers are ‘teaching to the test’ and how much administrators are tailoring curricula to match test requirements.
1988 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 19 Sept. 1 I'm sure somewhere out there are staff members who probably restrict their teaching (to what is covered in) testing. Teaching only to a test is very limiting.
2003 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 17 July 2 Learning at AS-level was perceived as rushed and superficial; teachers felt under pressure to teach to the test; pupils focused on maximising their grades at the expense of wider exploratory learning.
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