单词 | to school away |
释义 | > as lemmasto school away to school away 1. transitive. To remove or eradicate by education or self-control. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > [verb (transitive)] > unteach (a person) > unteach (a thing) unteach1562 to school away1758 1758 O. Goldsmith tr. J. Marteilhe Mem. Protestant II. 87 What will not Men do, who have, if I may be allowed the Expression, schooled away every Principle. 1833 T. Chalmers On Power Wisdom & Goodness of God I. i. v. 194 It may at least school away those prepossessions of the fancy or of the taste that would lead us to resist or to dislike such evidence when offered. 1992 C. Bernstein A Poetics 176 Our mutual incomprehensibility to each other is not a matter that can be legislated, or schooled, away. 2003 D. Durgin Angel: Impressions 174 It was her turn to frown. She quickly schooled away the bumpy brow effect. 2. transitive. To direct (a person) away from a habit, attitude, etc., by education or training. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > [verb (transitive)] > unteach (a person) unteach?1533 unlearn1615 unschool1820 unscholar1823 to school away1917 1917 Rec. Christian Work Feb. 155/1 We need to accept the mastery of Christ's conception of duty. We are being slowly schooled away from it to-day. 1934 M. Cowley Exile's Return (1994) Prol. 9 The generation..was uprooted, schooled away and almost wrenched away from its attachment to any region or tradition. 2007 P. S. Fass Children of New World iii. vii. 209 State officials increasingly insisted that the children..needed to be schooled away from their parents' habits and language. < as lemmas |
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