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In the book I'm reading, Michael Connelly's Echo Park from 2006, the main character, Harry Bosch, an LAPD detective, is getting drunk on vodka and ice after he's learnt that he made a very costly mistake in an investigation 12 years before. He calls his former partner to let him know about it, hangs up and there follows this bit in the novel:

• He got up off the floor and hung the phone on the wall. Before returning to the back deck he educated the ice in his glass once more with vodka. (p.89)

I've checked for meanings of educate that could account for its use here but couldn't find any. I wonder what it means.

Here are the other passages involving the vodka and ice before the one that baffled me:

• He was drinking vodka sprinkled liberally over ice, the first time he'd gone with hard liquor since coming back on the job the year before. (p.85)


• He shook the ice and vodka and took another deep drink until he finished the glass. How could anything so cold burn so intensely hot on the way down? He walked back inside the house to put more vodka on the ice. (p.85)


• Bosch shook his glass and took a drink before answering. The ice tumbled against his mouth, and vodka spilled down his cheek. He wiped it with sleeve of his jacket and then brought the phone back to his mouth. (p.86)

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  Maybe there is some more on "educate" prior this point. My guess to the meaning: he has drunk all the vodka, all that is left is ice, so he adds more vodka.
  
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  Looks like a nonce. I am not familiar with the writer, but possibly they are looking for a noir feel.
  
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  @GEdgar I've given more context and I guess the passage three pages before goes some way in explaining the use of "educate". I didn't have it in mind any more when I came to the bit I asked the question about.
  
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  @Cascabel He had received bad news (of making a mistake in a past investigation), although the drink may well have helped. The passage is available in Google Books
  
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In the book I'm reading, Michael Connelly's Echo Park from 2006, the main character, Harry Bosch, an LAPD detective, is getting drunk on vodka and ice after he's learnt that he made a very costly mistake in an investigation 12 years before. He calls his former partner to let him know about it, hangs up and there follows this bit in the novel:

• He got up off the floor and hung the phone on the wall. Before returning to the back deck he educated the ice in his glass once more with vodka. (p.89)

I've checked for meanings of educate that could account for its use here but couldn't find any. I wonder what it means.

Here are the other passages involving the vodka and ice before the one that baffled me:

• He was drinking vodka sprinkled liberally over ice, the first time he'd gone with hard liquor since coming back on the job the year before. (p.85)


• He shook the ice and vodka and took another deep drink until he finished the glass. How could anything so cold burn so intensely hot on the way down? He walked back inside the house to put more vodka on the ice. (p.85)


• Bosch shook his glass and took a drink before answering. The ice tumbled against his mouth, and vodka spilled down his cheek. He wiped it with sleeve of his jacket and then brought the phone back to his mouth. (p.86)

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  Maybe there is some more on "educate" prior this point. My guess to the meaning: he has drunk all the vodka, all that is left is ice, so he adds more vodka.
  
  – GEdgar
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


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  Looks like a nonce. I am not familiar with the writer, but possibly they are looking for a noir feel.
  
  – Cascabel
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


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  @GEdgar I've given more context and I guess the passage three pages before goes some way in explaining the use of "educate". I didn't have it in mind any more when I came to the bit I asked the question about.
  
  – petitrien
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


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  Does "He got up off the floor" mean he had fallen down in a drunken stupor?
  
  – Cascabel
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


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  @Cascabel He had received bad news (of making a mistake in a past investigation), although the drink may well have helped. The passage is available in Google Books
  
  – Andrew Leach♦
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

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show 3 more comments

In the book I'm reading, Michael Connelly's Echo Park from 2006, the main character, Harry Bosch, an LAPD detective, is getting drunk on vodka and ice after he's learnt that he made a very costly mistake in an investigation 12 years before. He calls his former partner to let him know about it, hangs up and there follows this bit in the novel:

• He got up off the floor and hung the phone on the wall. Before returning to the back deck he educated the ice in his glass once more with vodka. (p.89)

I've checked for meanings of educate that could account for its use here but couldn't find any. I wonder what it means.

Here are the other passages involving the vodka and ice before the one that baffled me:

• He was drinking vodka sprinkled liberally over ice, the first time he'd gone with hard liquor since coming back on the job the year before. (p.85)


• He shook the ice and vodka and took another deep drink until he finished the glass. How could anything so cold burn so intensely hot on the way down? He walked back inside the house to put more vodka on the ice. (p.85)


• Bosch shook his glass and took a drink before answering. The ice tumbled against his mouth, and vodka spilled down his cheek. He wiped it with sleeve of his jacket and then brought the phone back to his mouth. (p.86)

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The meaning is certainly that he added more vodka to the remaining ice in the glass.

The use of the word educate is interesting. The only vaguely-related definition I could find is listed as obsolete in OED. The entry was updated in 2012 and the last citation for this usage is from 1806.

†b. To bring up, look after, or rear (a child or animal) with respect to food and other physical needs. Obsolete.

The usage is transferred to the inanimate ice, which presumably is thought of as having a physical need for vodka similar to his own.

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  could this possibly relate to the same duc-t (induct, produce, aquaeduct, ...). I sense a bit of a word play around the intelectual aspect of drinking, or the lack thereof.
  
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  Well, the -duc- certainly comes from the Latin "to lead", but education in the sense of meeting physical needs (to lead to adulthood) rather than instilling knowledge (leading out of ignorance) is long dead.
  
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  Unsurprisingly, the obsolete usage still has currency in Spanish.
  
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  It's certainly being used metaphorically, and I don't think it has the same esoteric meaning you're straining to assign to it. I've kept a picture on my phone I found somewhere of a liquor store somewhere in the States with a sign that read the liver must be punished, indicating that it had been bad and needed to have liquor applied to it. The use here is very similar, but it's using educated rather than punished. With educated, the ice cubes are, metaphorically, gaining maturity and wisdom.
  
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As Jason said in a comment, "educated" is being used metaphorically. Here's what the sentence means:

Before returning to the back deck he improved the ice in his glass once more with vodka.

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The meaning is certainly that he added more vodka to the remaining ice in the glass.

The use of the word educate is interesting. The only vaguely-related definition I could find is listed as obsolete in OED. The entry was updated in 2012 and the last citation for this usage is from 1806.

†b. To bring up, look after, or rear (a child or animal) with respect to food and other physical needs. Obsolete.

The usage is transferred to the inanimate ice, which presumably is thought of as having a physical need for vodka similar to his own.

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  could this possibly relate to the same duc-t (induct, produce, aquaeduct, ...). I sense a bit of a word play around the intelectual aspect of drinking, or the lack thereof.
  
  – vectory
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Well, the -duc- certainly comes from the Latin "to lead", but education in the sense of meeting physical needs (to lead to adulthood) rather than instilling knowledge (leading out of ignorance) is long dead.
  
  – Andrew Leach♦
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Unsurprisingly, the obsolete usage still has currency in Spanish.
  
  – Cascabel
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  It's certainly being used metaphorically, and I don't think it has the same esoteric meaning you're straining to assign to it. I've kept a picture on my phone I found somewhere of a liquor store somewhere in the States with a sign that read the liver must be punished, indicating that it had been bad and needed to have liquor applied to it. The use here is very similar, but it's using educated rather than punished. With educated, the ice cubes are, metaphorically, gaining maturity and wisdom.
  
  – Jason Bassford
  6 hours ago
  
  
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

3

The meaning is certainly that he added more vodka to the remaining ice in the glass.

The use of the word educate is interesting. The only vaguely-related definition I could find is listed as obsolete in OED. The entry was updated in 2012 and the last citation for this usage is from 1806.

†b. To bring up, look after, or rear (a child or animal) with respect to food and other physical needs. Obsolete.

The usage is transferred to the inanimate ice, which presumably is thought of as having a physical need for vodka similar to his own.

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  could this possibly relate to the same duc-t (induct, produce, aquaeduct, ...). I sense a bit of a word play around the intelectual aspect of drinking, or the lack thereof.
  
  – vectory
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Well, the -duc- certainly comes from the Latin "to lead", but education in the sense of meeting physical needs (to lead to adulthood) rather than instilling knowledge (leading out of ignorance) is long dead.
  
  – Andrew Leach♦
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Unsurprisingly, the obsolete usage still has currency in Spanish.
  
  – Cascabel
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  It's certainly being used metaphorically, and I don't think it has the same esoteric meaning you're straining to assign to it. I've kept a picture on my phone I found somewhere of a liquor store somewhere in the States with a sign that read the liver must be punished, indicating that it had been bad and needed to have liquor applied to it. The use here is very similar, but it's using educated rather than punished. With educated, the ice cubes are, metaphorically, gaining maturity and wisdom.
  
  – Jason Bassford
  6 hours ago
  
  
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

The meaning is certainly that he added more vodka to the remaining ice in the glass.

The use of the word educate is interesting. The only vaguely-related definition I could find is listed as obsolete in OED. The entry was updated in 2012 and the last citation for this usage is from 1806.

†b. To bring up, look after, or rear (a child or animal) with respect to food and other physical needs. Obsolete.

The usage is transferred to the inanimate ice, which presumably is thought of as having a physical need for vodka similar to his own.

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As Jason said in a comment, "educated" is being used metaphorically. Here's what the sentence means:

Before returning to the back deck he improved the ice in his glass once more with vodka.

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As Jason said in a comment, "educated" is being used metaphorically. Here's what the sentence means:

Before returning to the back deck he improved the ice in his glass once more with vodka.

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answered 1 hour ago

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As Jason said in a comment, "educated" is being used metaphorically. Here's what the sentence means:

Before returning to the back deck he improved the ice in his glass once more with vodka.

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answered 1 hour ago

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