单词 | obliviate |
释义 | obliviatev. Now rare. transitive. To forget, commit to oblivion. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > deliberate forgetting, condoning > [verb (transitive)] > consign to oblivion defacec1386 to strike by1457 efface1490 unlearna1500 obliterate1548 delete1563 oblivionize1593 dismiss1594 bury1595 oblivion1659 obliviate1661 erase1695 to go into the discard1927 cancel1990 1661 J. Gadbury Britains Royal Star To Rdr. They [sc. Artists] will rather, then take notice hereof, hang down their heads like Bull-rushes, and obliviate their Art. 1701 Stars & Planets 5 Nor can we (without being guilty of ingratitude) obliviate the Memory of the Ingenious Dr. George Sinclar. 1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest III. xxii. 288 She withdrew..and tried to obliviate her anxieties in sleep. 1792 T. Odiorne Progress of Refinement iii. 117 To bury all its grandeur in the dust, Or, rather else, to obliviate its crimes. 1838 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (ed. 4) xxii. 207 They obliviated their arrand and left her. 1853 Centurial Hist. Mendon Assoc. of Congregational Ministers 12 Some who love to boast of a Puritanic descent for the sake of their legacies, studiously obliviate the fact of the high Calvinism of those worthies. 1867 R. M. Devens Pict. Bk. Anecd. War Rebellion (new ed.) 7 The attempt would be almost equally futile to discover the family circle or individual upon whom those events have not fallen, either directly or indirectly, with a shock which memory will never efface nor time obliviate. 1975–6 18th-cent. Stud. 9 175 The need for both painter and playwright to obliviate the beholder, to neutralize and if possible to negate his presence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1661 |
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