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Definition of Indoctrinate
1. Verb. Teach doctrines to; teach uncritically. "The Moonies indoctrinate their disciples"
Generic synonyms: Instruct, Learn, Teach
Derivative terms: Doctrine, Indoctrination
Definition of Indoctrinate
1. v. t. To instruct in the rudiments or principles of learning, or of a branch of learning; to imbue with learning; to instruct in, or imbue with, principles or doctrines; to teach; -- often followed by in.
Definition of Indoctrinate
1. Verb. to teach with a biased , one-sided or uncritical ideology. ¹
2. Verb. to brainwash. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Indoctrinate
1. [v -NATED, -NATING, -NATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indoctrinate
Literary usage of Indoctrinate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Examination of President Edwards's Inquiry on the Freedom of the Will by Jeremiah Day (1841)
"The philosophy contained in the Bible itself—Meeting the authors of erroneous
theories upon their own ground—Undertaking to indoctrinate plain uneducated ..."
2. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge by ed Andrew Findlater, John Merry Ross (1868)
"... in the gradually increasing band of French ^ ------- •_ т_ ,n*. i ------ ij
t- ---- i* _^i_ Free-traders, who are attempting to indoctrinate manners, ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"School, va I. Instruct, teach, educate, traía, drill, exercise* indoctrinate. 2.
Tutor, discipline, control, govern, chide, admonish, reprove, ..."
4. An Examination of President Edward's Inquiry on the Freedom of Will by Jeremiah Day (1841)
"The philosophy contained in the Bible itself—Meeting the authors of erroneous
theories upon their own ground—Undertaking to indoctrinate plain uneducated ..."
5. Truman Marcellus Post,D.D.: A Biography, Personal and Literary by Truman Augustus Post (1891)
"We need to indoctrinate them beyond the idea that indifferentism is liberality
... We need to indoctrinate our people with the idea that while liberty is to ..."
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