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Definition of indoctrinate in English: indoctrinateverb ɪnˈdɒktrɪneɪtɪnˈdɑktrəˌneɪt [with object]1Teach (a person or group) to accept a set of beliefs uncritically. broadcasting was a vehicle for indoctrinating the masses Example sentencesExamples - According to theologian, we are all indoctrinated in the myth of redemptive violence: The basic belief that violence can create peace.
- She begs him to teach and indoctrinate her into the ways of what he does.
- In some societies children are indoctrinated in religious beliefs and values.
- Would they brainwash and indoctrinate me with utopian, sci-fi visions of an alternate reality?
- At school, like my peers, I was indoctrinated in the mysteries of original and venal sin, virgin birth, the respective criteria for entry to limbo, purgatory, and heaven.
- Her character talks about how having a baby indoctrinates you, like it or not, into a great big club.
- If the attempts are successful, students will be indoctrinated with pseudoscientific beliefs and will leave school with warped and restricted views of reality.
- But feminism has too fully indoctrinated us in the idea that the female position is necessarily the weaker one.
- Once you are indoctrinated into these organizations, there's no turning back.
- Each episode their singing slowly indoctrinated me into the religion known as modern music.
- Has an atheist who practices religion in Borneo overcome the beliefs he was indoctrinated with?
- I was born into a staunch Roman Catholic family and was indoctrinated with those beliefs as I grew up.
- At 10 he was shipped off to a Roman Catholic military academy in Los Angeles where he was indoctrinated by ‘tough Irish nuns’.
- Nurses have been indoctrinated with the belief that doctors are capable of exercising only a cold, scientific medical model.
- I dropped my belief in a god several years ago and I was indoctrinated in one of the most religiously oriented states in America.
- The consumer media culture indoctrinates us into believing that what we do for work and the success we have there is a measure of our worth as individuals.
- But both parties must realise that marriage is a far less definitive, far less protective and far less stable force than we are indoctrinated to believe.
- ‘If our aim is to indoctrinate students with unpatriotic beliefs,’ he said, ‘we're obviously doing a very poor job of it’.
Synonyms brainwash, propagandize, proselytize, inculcate, re-educate, persuade, convince, condition, discipline, mould instruct, teach, school, drill, ground - 1.1archaic Teach or instruct (someone)
he indoctrinated them in systematic theology
Derivatives noun And of course some indoctrinators are more thorough and thought-preventive than others are. Example sentencesExamples - It favours those who have never made a mistake, or never dared to challenge their indoctrinators.
- If that is that case, the indoctrinators, like Aldous Huxley's controllers, become all-powerful.
- Religious indoctrinators of every denomination must be salivating: all those innocent minds to corrupt, sorry, convert - and all on state money.
- The indoctrinators have very organized steps and styles that correspond to the levels and types of control.
adjective Religious instruction can be single-faith and indoctrinatory; religious education is usually multi-faith, and relatively balanced and objective. Example sentencesExamples - Most of the current history textbooks in the district contain a good deal of indoctrinatory propaganda.
- There is an inference here that teaching is somehow indoctrinatory and it's a perspective I've suspected behind many a grab for classroom hegemony.
Origin Early 17th century: formerly also as endoctrinate): from en-1, in-2 'into' + doctrine + -ate3, or from obsolete indoctrine (verb), from French endoctriner, based on doctrine 'doctrine'. Definition of indoctrinate in US English: indoctrinateverbɪnˈdɑktrəˌneɪtinˈdäktrəˌnāt [with object]1Teach (a person or group) to accept a set of beliefs uncritically. broadcasting was a vehicle for indoctrinating the masses Example sentencesExamples - She begs him to teach and indoctrinate her into the ways of what he does.
- If the attempts are successful, students will be indoctrinated with pseudoscientific beliefs and will leave school with warped and restricted views of reality.
- I was born into a staunch Roman Catholic family and was indoctrinated with those beliefs as I grew up.
- ‘If our aim is to indoctrinate students with unpatriotic beliefs,’ he said, ‘we're obviously doing a very poor job of it’.
- Would they brainwash and indoctrinate me with utopian, sci-fi visions of an alternate reality?
- According to theologian, we are all indoctrinated in the myth of redemptive violence: The basic belief that violence can create peace.
- But feminism has too fully indoctrinated us in the idea that the female position is necessarily the weaker one.
- At school, like my peers, I was indoctrinated in the mysteries of original and venal sin, virgin birth, the respective criteria for entry to limbo, purgatory, and heaven.
- Nurses have been indoctrinated with the belief that doctors are capable of exercising only a cold, scientific medical model.
- In some societies children are indoctrinated in religious beliefs and values.
- The consumer media culture indoctrinates us into believing that what we do for work and the success we have there is a measure of our worth as individuals.
- Her character talks about how having a baby indoctrinates you, like it or not, into a great big club.
- Once you are indoctrinated into these organizations, there's no turning back.
- I dropped my belief in a god several years ago and I was indoctrinated in one of the most religiously oriented states in America.
- Has an atheist who practices religion in Borneo overcome the beliefs he was indoctrinated with?
- At 10 he was shipped off to a Roman Catholic military academy in Los Angeles where he was indoctrinated by ‘tough Irish nuns’.
- But both parties must realise that marriage is a far less definitive, far less protective and far less stable force than we are indoctrinated to believe.
- Each episode their singing slowly indoctrinated me into the religion known as modern music.
Synonyms brainwash, propagandize, proselytize, inculcate, re-educate, persuade, convince, condition, discipline, mould - 1.1archaic Teach or instruct (someone)
he indoctrinated them in systematic theology
Origin Early 17th century: formerly also as endoctrinate): from en-, in- ‘into’ + doctrine + -ate, or from obsolete indoctrine (verb), from French endoctriner, based on doctrine ‘doctrine’. |