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The corpus record — Latin

dedoceo

dedoceo

to unlearn

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Where it lives

What it meant

dē-dŏcĕo — Lewis & Short

dē-dŏcĕo, ēre,

I v. a., to cause one to unlearn something, to unteach, teach the opposite of (rare, but class.).
(a) With double acc.: aliquem geometriam, Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 20: regnorum gaudia temet, Stat. Th. 2, 409.—*
(b) With acc. pers. and inf.: (virtus) populum falsis Dedocet uti Vocibus, Hor. Od. 2, 2, 20.—
(g) Pass.: cum aut docendus is est aut dedocendus, Cic. de Or. 2, 17, 72: cum a Zenone fortis esse didicisset, a dolore dedoctus est, id. Tusc. 2, 25, 60. In the gerund absol.: onus dedocendi gravius quam docendi, Quint. 2, 3, 2: ut coercendi magis quam dedocendi esse videantur, id. Fin. 1, 16, 51.

In the wild

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Where it came from

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