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Definition of By heart
1. Adverb. By committing to memory. "She knew the poem by heart"
Definition of By heart
1. Adverb. (idiomatic) Knowing completely; as having committed completely to memory. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of By Heart
Literary usage of By heart
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... all ecclesiastics to learn by heart the Apostles' Creed and the Athanasian
Creed, and this seems to be the earliest mention of the latter in France. ..."
2. American Journal of Education (1862)
"The learning by heart of (he middle ages, ... The German expression for learning
by heart, or outward learning ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1851)
"To learn by memory" (or by " rote") conveys to my own mind a very difi'erent
notion from what I conceive to be expressed by the words "Tolearn by heart. ..."
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