单词 | vocabularize |
释义 | vocabularizev. rare. transitive. To provide with a vocabulary; to record the vocabulary of (a language); †to give a name to (something) (obsolete). Later also: to give a name to or find words to express (something). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [verb (transitive)] vocabularize1815 1815 Crit. Rev. Aug. 159 As we do not find many of the respective organs in any dictionary, we shall now proceed to vocabularize them, and point out their pretended residence in the brain. 1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. 51 The vernacular French of the Capital,..amply vocabularized from the other languages of the mixed hosts whom Napoleon had assembled. 1895 Monthly Packet Jan. 50 If there would only arise a Samuel Johnson to vocabularise the language once and for ever, with final authority. 1907 Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archaeol. Soc. 30 52 There were still islands and mountain ranges to be discovered, new languages to vocabularise, [etc.] 1980 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 3 Aug. (Mag.) 4 Steaming libations of delicious, aromatic coffee! Afrikaners have enshrined their deep attachment to it by vocabularising it as ‘Boeretroos’ (Boer's solace). 2012 Afr. Amer. Rev. 45 242 Malcolm was enormously gifted at ‘vocabularizing’ the conditions, needs, oppressions, false beliefs, and hopeful potential future steps and courses of action of the Black Majority. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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