Parrotize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Parrotize is a verb meaning To parrot; to repeat what one has been told.
Meaning
To parrot; to repeat what one has been told.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To cause to behave like a parrot.
Example Sentences
Gray Gravity it selfe can well beteam, That Language be adapted to the Theme. He that to Parrots speaks, must parrotize: He that instructs a foole, may act th' unwise.
Children learn to parrotize on the subject; and young people imagine that the superstructure of their religion is complete, when even the first stone of the building is not firmly laid.
Thinking and speaking thus demand an unduly prolonged effort and, subconsciously, he would rather fall back on his old habit and parrotize than do any thinking at all, much less think originally.
Although you "know" you know this subject, you may at times be guilty of talking some of the same parrotized nonsense (of either the right or the left) of which you sometimes accuse your friends.
Word Forms
- parrotizes
- parrotizing
- parrotized
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include parrotise, repeat, quote, retell, rehearse, echo.
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