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Definition of Memorising
1. memorise [v] - See also: memorise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Memorising
Literary usage of Memorising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psychological Principles by James Ward (1919)
"Such is the case in the process commonly called memorising or ' learning by
heart,' and again in the process of reading ..."
2. The Psychology of Learning: An Advance Text in Educational Psychology by William Henry Pyle (1921)
"In the similar memorising, the improvement was 16 per cent, ... One group was
trained in memorising poetry, and the transfer to memory for prose material in ..."
3. Musical Interpretation, Its Laws and Principles, and Their Application in by Tobias Matthay (1913)
"In a word, the act of memorising fingering consists in associating a certain set
of fingers with a certain set of notes; this precisely defines the process, ..."
4. The Mind of Man: A Text-book of Psychology by Gustav Spiller (1902)
"memorising THE FACTS. (1) In learning to write, various facts came to the child's
notice, and these he was asked to retain. Through instruction, through ..."
5. The School, the Child and the Teacher: Suggestions for Students in Training by Ellen Winifred Adamson (1915)
"General experience goes to prove that, to average students, studying is a process
of learning in which mechanical memorising plays the leading part—in which ..."
6. Essays on Educational Reformers by Robert Hebert Quick (1890)
"memorising poetry. Composition. for Young Children), and requiring the learner
silently to gel at the question and then give the answer aloud § 13. ..."
7. School Management: Including Organisation, Discipline, and Moral Training by Joseph Landon (1889)
"To persons who possess the ability in a marked degree of memorising a form of
words, the temptation is very great to save themselves trouble, by relying on ..."
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