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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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... so promising field. Returning, he brings tokens of the royal favor to both the missionaries and Legazpi. That officer concludes to remove his seat of government to Luzon, especially to secure the valuable Chinese trade, of which Medina gives some account—not failing to reiterate the stereotyped complaint that all the silver ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXIII, 1629-30 • Various

... successful revolution inaugurated by Prim is worth relating, as it deals with an episode of Spanish politics which is repeated almost every other year with slender variations. The play is the same; the scene and the dramatis personae are merely shifted. One of the stereotyped military risings was to be initiated at Algeciras on the arrival of Prim from England. The intimation that he was at hand was to be made by the firing of two rockets from the ship which carried him. On a certain night at the close of August, ...

— Romantic Spain - A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) • John Augustus O'Shea

... glorious days of the Indian Summer, the perfect season for military operations, were gliding by as tranquilly as if there were not a great war on hand, and still the citizen at home read each morning in his newspaper the stereotyped bulletin, "All quiet on the Potomac;" the phrase passed into a byword and a sneer. By this time, too, to a nation which had not European standards of excellence, the army seemed to have reached a high state ...

— Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I. • John T. Morse

... Bible and methods of dealing with it which have long become impossible to those who have really tried to follow the manifold discoveries of modern inquiry with perfectly open and unbiased minds. There are a certain number of persons who, when their minds have become stereotyped in foregone conclusions, are simply incapable of grasping new truths. They become obstructives, and not infrequently bigoted obstructives. As convinced as the Pope of their own personal infallibility, their attitude ...

— God and my Neighbour • Robert Blatchford

... you found out about that missing switch-engine?" This had come to be the stereotyped query, vocalizing itself every time the trainmaster showed his face in ...

— The Taming of Red Butte Western • Francis Lynde

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