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byheart en · VERB

Etymology

From the phrase by heart.

Meanings

1. (India, transitive) To recite from memory.
   • While playing the kruthi, in the veena, the students have to byheart swara, sahitya in vocal then try to play it with the help of the masters to get all the gamakas in the form of sahitya. 1989, Gurikar Nanjundasastry Subramanyam, Veena:
2. (India, transitive) To commit to memory; memorise.
   • Another glaring disparity was that the Indian Veterinarian was then forced to byheart the doses of medicines, meant for European cattle and other domestic animals. 1967, N. B. Sen, Progress of education in free India:
   • They said that they had 'byhearted' all the pages. ln ancient times there was great emphasis on memorisation and memory training as word of mouth was the only means of transmitting texts in the absence of faculty of reproduction of […] 1980, Debi Prasanna Pattanayak, Jennifer Marie Bayer, H. L. N. Bharati, Literacy education:

Forms

Deriveds

byhearting

Translations (5)

pl nauczyć się na pamięć (to memorise) · pl wyrecytować z pamięci (to recite by memory) · te వల్లించు (to recite by memory) · pl uczyć się na pamięć (to memorise) · pl recytować z pamięci (to recite by memory)