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unˈteach, v.
[un-2 3.]
1. trans. To cause (a person) to forget or discard previous knowledge. Occas. const. to with inf.
1532Tindale Expos. Matt. v–vii, 36 b, Thou hast vntaught hir to feare God. 1650Baxter Saints' R. iii. 535 We have a double task; first to unteach them, and then to teach them better. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) I. 8 The peasant wants only to be taught, the lawyer to be untaught. 1833Q. Rev. XLIX. 72 Much of their time was employed in unteaching them to read. 1845Keble in A. Mozley Lett. Newman (1891) II. 473 You have taught me so, and I scarce think you can unteach me. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit. vii. 135 Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more art of the engineer,—unteaches him.
b. With double object. (Also in passive.)
1620Sir T. Matthew tr. St. Augustine's Confessions iii. xii. 121 To teach me that which was good, and to vnteach me that which was otherwise. 1661Boyle Style of Script. 148 The Complaint was ordinary, That the Reading of the Bible untaught them the Purity of the Roman Language. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. v. §24 Gentlemen are untaught by the world what they have been taught at the college. 1743Francis tr. Hor., Odes ii. ii. 19 But Virtue can the Croud unteach Their false, mistaken Forms of Speech. 1814Byron Lara i. iv, His faults..Might be untaught him by his varied lot.
2. absol. To undo previous knowledge or teaching.
1531Elyot Gov. i. xv, It is difficulte to put out of the mynde that whiche is ones settilled,..and verily moche more to unteache than to teache. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 63 To teach and vnteach in a schoole is vnmeete. a1589Palfreyman Baldwin's Mor. Philos. (1600) 74 The..burthen beeing..verily much more to vnteach then to teach. 1839Bailey Festus 317 Once—teach and unteach—nay, to use more arts Than would outdo the Devil of his throne.
3. To remove from the mind (something known or taught) by different teaching.
1562Turner Herbal ii. 57, I will be content..to vntech my error, whiche I haue taught before. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 12 That the holy Ghost should sit in the Chaire, to crosse and unteach their principles. 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. ii. §8 Wee doe but learne to day, what our better advanced judgements will unteach to morrow. 1709O. Dykes Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 92 Over-grown Habits may be untaught by diligent Care. 1801Monthly Mag. XII. 590 Must not the Anti-gallicans seek fresh sophists to unteach all their lessons of the last decennium? 1857Ellis & Blackburn Rep. Cases Q. Bench VII. 190 Reasons..instilled into her in the process of unteaching those prayers.
Hence unˈteaching vbl. n.
1876W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 414 The inevitable unteaching of young men, the purging from delusion. |