parrotise

English

Verb

parrotise (third-person singular simple present parrotises, present participle parrotising, simple past and past participle parrotised)

1. Alternative form of parrotize
   • 1842, The Monthly Review, page 505:

     Indeed, I am not acquainted with any system, whether intended or not to intellectualise, that does positively anything else than parrotise the pupil.

   • 1995, A. G. Khan, Canadian Literature and Indian Literature: New Perspectives, page 10:

     How can a community threatened with loss of identity and an endangered survival afford to "parrotise", "A book of verse underneath the spreading bough" - the natural response is "to hack with the wine and loaf (65).

   • 1995, Osarẹn S. B. Ọmọregie, Stem, Steps and Caps: A History of Christ's Chosen Church of God, →ISBN:

     The divers tongues are not intended to be studiously learnt or dramatically parrotised as some church leaders would want to drag adherents into.

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