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/stˈɛriətˌaɪpt/ /stˈɛrioʊtˌaɪpt/ Listen

verb

Stereotype v. t. (past & past part. stereotyped; pres. part. stereotyping)

To prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the Bible.

Fig.: To make firm or permanent; to fix. "Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions."

adjective

Stereotyped adj.

Formed into, or printed from, stereotype plates.

Fig.: Formed in a fixed, unchangeable manner; as, stereotyped opinions. "Our civilization, with its stereotyped ways and smooth conventionalities."

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Etymology of 'Stereotyped'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stereotyped" Quotes from Famous Books

... all this your old stereotyped system of education takes no note. Physical science, its methods, its problems, and its difficulties, will meet the poorest boy at every turn, and yet we educate him in such a manner that he shall enter ...

— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley

... think that if, by some such "general understanding" as the reports speak of in legislation daily, every member of Congress might leave a double to sit through those deadly sessions and answer to roll-calls and do the legitimate party-voting, which appears stereotyped in the regular list of Ashe, Bocock, Black, etc., we should gain decidedly in working-power. As things stand, the saddest State prison I ever visit is that Representatives' Chamber in Washington. If a man leaves for an hour, twenty "correspondents" may be howling, "Where was Mr. Pendergrast ...

— If, Yes and Perhaps - Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact • Edward Everett Hale

... Again the conditions stereotyped themselves into that nerve racking ordeal known to the civilian public as "nothing to report"—the type of warfare recognised by all who have any experience of modern active service life as calling for ...

— The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) - Record of War Service, 1914-1918 • Various

... when the stereotyped phrase, "a fair young English girl," meant the ideal of womanhood; to us, at least, of home birth and breeding. It meant a creature generous, capable, and modest; something franker than a Frenchwoman, more to be trusted than an ...

— Modern Women and What is Said of Them - A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) • Anonymous

... faculties of man. Christian Ethics, though deduced from scripture, is not a cut and dry code of rules prescribed by God which man must blindly obey. It has to be thought out, and intelligently applied to all the circumstances of life. According to the Protestant view, at least, Ethics is not a stereotyped compendium of precepts which {34} the Church supplies to its members to save them from thinking. Slavish imitation is wholly foreign to the genius of the Gospel. Christ Himself appeals everywhere to ...

— Christianity and Ethics - A Handbook of Christian Ethics • Archibald B. C. Alexander

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