| 单词 |
remediate |
| 释义 |
▪ I. reˈmediate, a. arch.
[? f. L. remediāt, ppl. stem of remediāre to remedy.]
Remedial.
(Perh. an error for remedial or remediant.)
1605Shakes. Lear iv. iv. 17 (Qq.), All you vnpublisht vertues of the earth Spring with my teares, be aydant, and remediat [1st Fol. -ate] In the good mans distress. 1906G. G. Coulton tr. Pearl 33 And washed me in blood remediate.
▪ II. reˈmediate, v.2
[Back-formation from remediation.]
trans. To remedy or redress.
1969Word Study Feb. 2/1, I encountered the phrase ‘teachers remediating speech difficulties’ (my italics again). Another patent neologism, I thought, derived obviously from a transitive weak verb to remediate, itself a back-formation on the analogy of the often-heard to orientate ‘back-formed’ from the noun orientation. 1973Black World Mar. 31 Without supportive services to..remediate their academic deficiencies,..the students experienced an extremely high failure rate the first year. 1976Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics Spring 92 The effect of expansion was to increase the time allowed for segment analysis, thus remediating such falling behind. |
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