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Teaching someone to accept doctrines uncritically
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indoctrination
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, noun of action from indoctrinate .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. teaching someone to accept doctrines uncritically
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of indoctrinate, or the condition of being indoctrinated 2 Instruction in the rudiments and principles of any science or belief system; information.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Indoctrination , or thought reform , is the process of forcibly inculcating ideas , attitudes , cognitive strategies or a professional methodology (see doctrine ) by coercion . Conspiring institutions such as police and mental hospitals have been widely ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indoctrination \In*doc`tri*na"tion\, n. The act of indoctrinating, or the condition of being indoctrinated; instruction in the rudiments and principles of any science or system of belief; information. --Sir T. Browne.
Usage examples of indoctrination.
I was considering something that, prior to my indoctrination in Alaskan values, would have been out of the question.
This, coupled with the ceaseless indoctrination in their home country served to equip the Argentinean officers for a covert war against the masses.
As such they arc also presumed to be susceptible to manipulation by the counterinsurgent through the psychological warfare techniques of propaganda and indoctrination, through incentive programs, and through fear.
Weekends there is one hell of a lot of traffic in the area of the Meadows Center, guided tours and indoctrination, and movies about the Eternal Church and all that, to say nothing of the services and the panel shows and those little carnival things they put on for the kids.
Japanese were able to throw off a decade and a half of the most intense militaristic indoctrination, for instance, offers lessons in the limits of socialization and the fragility of ideology that we have seen elsewhere in this century in the collapse of totalitarian regimes.
The ease with which the great majority of Japanese were able to throw off a decade and a half of the most intense militaristic indoctrination, for instance, offers lessons in the limits of socialization and the fragility of ideology that we have seen elsewhere in this century in the collapse of totalitarian regimes.
When people nowadays respond to their indoctrination into scientific materialism with despair, as did William James, they can treat this affliction with an ever-growing arsenal of drugs that affect the neurophysiological basis of depression.
It had been Altair during indoctrination in the planetarium at Fremont State.
At the beginning of the six-month indoctrination, Deke Slayton, lean and mean, appeared before the astronauts with a stack of basic manuals and specific flight plans twenty-seven inches thick.
The International Regulations on Sigint govern the actions of the multinational cyberspies, from the wording of their indoctrination oaths to the format of their intercept forms to their unique cryptospeak of codewords and covernames.
In other words, contemplative practice entails no genuine inquiry or observation, for it is nothing more than self-inflicted indoctrination.
The two were model rangers and April June had assigned the new recruit, riding with them today, for indoctrination.
Desi Romero and his cousin, Desi Gonza ez, who defected from "the intolerable situation in our homeland," will head up a Special Forces unit being formed at Benning after linguistic indoctrination and orthodontal treatment.
As for Cang Hai, she clearly needed indoctrination into the pleasures of sex.
The film projectors, stereos, audio mixers and video machines would help establish another indoctrination center for young psychopaths and criminals in another city, away from here.