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Definition of Instil
1. Verb. Enter drop by drop. "Instill medication into my eye"
Generic synonyms: Enter, Infix, Insert, Introduce
Derivative terms: Instilment, Instillation, Instillation, Instillator, Instillment
Definition of Instil
1. Verb. (alternative spelling of instill) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Instil
1. to instill [v -STILLED, -STILLING, -STILS] - See also: instill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Instil
Literary usage of Instil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Haste therefore, and instil ambrosia sweet 410 (Lest he should faint) and nectar
on his lips." He spoke, and kindled in Athene's breast The love, ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1891)
"... filling also from 1822 the chair of Hebrew in the collegiate department of
the instil u- tion till the establishment of the Queen's College in Is li». ..."
3. A Selection of Leading Cases in Equity: With Notes by Frederick Thomas White, Owen Davies Tudor, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace (1877)
"But I must differ from Mr Justice Eyre, as to sending the infant to a public
school, which may be thought likely to instil into him notions of slavery.1 ..."
4. The New Laokoon: An Essay on the Confusion of the Arts by Irving Babbitt (1910)
"The power of poetry is, by a single word, perhaps, to instil energy into the
mind, which compels the imagination to produce the picture. ..."
5. Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge by Sara Coleridge Coleridge, Edith Coleridge (1873)
"I. Early Training—How to instil right Principles of Conduct; and teach a Child
the use of his Mind—A Little Boy's notion of Parental Discipline. ..."
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