parrotizes

Verb

parrotize (third-person singular simple present parrotizes, present participle parrotizing, simple past and past participle parrotized)

1. To parrot; to repeat what one has been told.
   • How often is the nonsense and error of the common translation, the rudeness and dulness of the metre of some Psalms, as Psal. vii. 13, as also the cold formality with which that ordinance is performed by many who do but parrotize?1820, John Flavel, The whole works of John Flavel
2. (transitive) To cause to behave like a parrot.
   • To deal, then, in verbal abstractions, and to attempt the communication of ideas to children who have yet to become acquainted with their prototypes in nature, is, indeed, (in the language of our author) to parrotize them.1842, The Athenaeum, page 187