Indoctrinate

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  • transitive verb. To instruct in a body of doctrine or principles.
  • transitive verb. To imbue with a partisan or ideological point of view.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To imbue with learning, or with a particular doctrine or principle; cause to hold as a doctrine or belief; instruct.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to teach with a biased , one-sided or uncritical ideology.
  • verb. to brainwash.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. teach doctrines to; teach uncritically
  • Word Usage
    "The word indoctrinate is quite often used to point out how the other group whose ideas are in opposition to one's own, are cloaking their motives as "proper" education; yet, in actuality, a certain amount of indoctrination is required in order to establish and maintain societal norms."
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