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Definition of Instilment
1. Noun. The introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop.
Generic synonyms: Insertion, Introduction, Intromission
Specialized synonyms: Infusion
Derivative terms: Instill, Instill, Instil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Instilment
Literary usage of Instilment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald by Thomas Moore (1831)
"... first instilment of those principles into his mind, every reader, 1 think, of
the foregoing letter will be inclined to allow. ..."
2. The Educator: Prize Essays on the Expediency and Means of Elevating the by John Lalor (1839)
"The mode of instilment is, to make habit and authority the sole basis of character
and of attainment; " to write line upon line, and precept upon precept," ..."
3. The Twentieth Century by Caroline Farrar Ware (1908)
"But even if its disparaging view ia right, the note is a violence ; for, abandoning
the true mode of intellectual action—persuasion, the instilment of ..."
4. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone (1800)
"With regard to the canons, they feem to have as little weight <'.' the instilment
drawn from the convocation ; for thry prove nothing by proving too much ..."
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