单词 | to con by rote |
释义 | > as lemmasto con by rote b. transitive. to con by heart: to learn by heart. Also † to con by rote (obsolete). Cf. earlier to can by heart at can v.1 Phrases 3, to can by rote at can v.1 Phrases 3.In quot. c1449 probably still perceived as can v.1: compare discussion in the etymology section. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > memorization > memorize, learn by heart [verb (transitive)] record?c1225 renderc1380 to can by rotec1405 con?a1425 to con by heartc1449 can1496 to bear away1530 get1540 commend to memory1550 commit?1551 to con over1605 rotea1616 lodge1622 to get off by heart1709 memorize1834 rehearse1902 memorate1983 c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 89 Manye..kunnen suche textis bi herte. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement iii. f. cclxxiiiv/2 I can konne more by herte in a daye than he can in a weke. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes Pref. sig. ***iii These thynges must in any wyse bee cunned by herte, to thende that ye maye haue theim euer readie at hande. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxx. 554 Not to cun by heart, nor to write out. 1590 J. Greenwood Answere Giffords Def. 15 Conning phrases and formes of prayer by roate. 1624 A. Leighton Speculum Belli Sacri xxvii. 128 He had cunned by heart, the lesson of Q. Metellus, and had it often in his mouth. a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 56 To conn by heart these prayers. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 211 To con the Authors Names by rote. 1746 G. Ridley Constit. in Church & State iii. 69 Christian Apostolical Lessons, which the Successors of St. Peter would do well to con by heart. 1881 Pop. Sci. Monthly Mar. 667 Education, which consisted, not of investigating new phenomena, but of conning by rote what their ancestors had taught them. 1997 D. Nokes Jane Austen (1998) ii. ii. 78 He had already conned by heart the villain's soliloquies. < as lemmas |
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