单词 | re-educate |
释义 | re-educatev. 1. transitive. To educate again or afresh; spec. to educate or train (a person) in order to change his or her beliefs or behaviour. ΘΚΠ society > education > [verb (transitive)] > re-educate re-educate1779 1779 D. Williams Nature & Extent Intellect. Liberty 13 It is the business of great numbers of persons here, whom the university might affect to despise, to re-educate those who have been at Oxford, or to direct them in methods of obtaining knowledge. 1807 Crit. Rev. 3rd Ser. 10 488 The education of Catinat had been neglected; and he determined to re-educate himself. 1852 W. Hamilton Discuss. Philos. & Lit. 322 These tutors, educated in the older system, were unable or unwilling to re-educate themselves for teachers of the new. 1916 Times 14 Sept. 7/ There are great camps in which disabled men are re-educated so that they may be made fit again for service. 1955 Treatment of Brit. P.O.W.'s in Korea (H.M.S.O.) 4 ‘Re-educating’ the prisoners. The Chinese technique of ‘re-education’ embraced every phase of daily life in the prison camps. 1967 Listener 18 May 653/1 The aim..is to re-educate the prisoner rather than to punish him. 2005 M. Lewycka Short Hist. Tractors in Ukrainian xxvi. 273 We will teach you to raise children not to steal. You will be re-educated. 2. transitive. To restore (muscles, nerves, etc.) to (some degree of) normal function, esp. after injury; to redevelop (movement or other function). ΚΠ 1852 H. Holland Chapters Mental Physiol. x. 231 I have often obtained many curious facts from the paralytic patient, thus occupied in re-educating his muscles. 1868 Lancet 1 Feb. 158/1 The process of gradually re-educating my eyes was not devoid of scientific interest. 1946 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 46 117/2 Some of the principles which should be kept in mind in re-educating muscles..are: A weak muscle cannot contract unless its antagonist relaxes in conformity. 1991 M. Lynch & V. Grisogono Strokes & Head Injuries (BNC) 113 The primary aim of modern physiotherapy treatment is to re-educate normal movement. 2005 New Yorker 21 Nov. 10/2 A technique known as stress loading can reëducate the nervous system through the use of added weight to the extremity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1779 |
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