单词 | dementalize |
释义 | dementalizev. transitive. To deprive of the capacity for thought; to brutalize or dehumanize; to remove mind or a mental quality from. ΚΠ 1866 W. P. Atkinson in Lect. Amer. Inst. Instr. iv. 247 Take a child who has been ‘dementalized’ by the rote-learning of abstractions, of the rules of grammar, [etc.]. 1916 Bull. Amer. Libr. Assoc. July 378/2 Trashy novels, flashy magazines, yellow journals are doing what they can to demoralize and dementalize—if I may use the expression—the minds of the people of this country. 1936 R. G. Collingwood Human Nature & Human Hist. 24 Sciences of this type tend systematically to dementalize mind and convert it into nature. 2010 Trends Cognitive Sci. 14 385/1 People also dehumanize (or dementalize) specific disliked others, such as another person who rejects them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1866 |
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