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Indoctrinate v. t. (past & past part. indoctrinated; pres. part. indoctrinating)

To instruct in the rudiments or principles of learning, or of a branch of learning; to imbue with learning; to teach; often followed by in. "A master that... took much delight in indoctrinating his young, unexperienced favorite."

To instruct in, or imbue with, doctrines, principles or ideologies, especially from a specific point of view which may be partisan or biased; to strongly press one's own point of view upon.

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Etymology of 'Indoctrinate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Indoctrinate" Quotes from Famous Books

... nominal Republic a Constitutional Monarchy. Thus, in a highly characteristic way, all through the tortuous course of the Japanese negotiations, to which he was supposed to be devoting his sole attention in order to save his menaced fatherland, Yuan Shih-kai was assisting his henchmen to indoctrinate Peking officialdom with the idea that the salvation of the State depended more on restoring on a modified basis the old empire than in beating off the Japanese assault. It was his belief that if some scholar of national ...

— The Fight For The Republic in China • Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale

Words linked to "Indoctrinate" : teach, revolutionize, brainwash, instruct, revolutionise, inspire, doctrine