Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indoctrinate \In*doc"tri*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indoctrinated; p. pr. & vb. n. Indoctrinating.] [Pref. in- in + L. doctrina doctrine: cf. F. endoctriner.]
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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.
A master that . . . took much delight in indoctrinating his young, unexperienced favorite.
--Clarendon. 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To teach with a biased, one-sided or uncritical ideology. 2 To brainwash.
WordNet
v. teach doctrines to; teach uncritically; "The Moonies indoctrinate their disciples"
Usage examples of "indoctrinate".
Western liberalism and democracy, the Meiji government in its critical education policy had determined to indoctrinate a social ideology derived mainly from the Shinto-Confucian concepts that had evolved as a new orthodoxy of thought in the late Tokugawa period.
Some are indoctrinated for additional codewords, such as Gamma, which means that the information comes from a particularly sensitive source, such as internal foreign communications systems or cipher systems that NSA was able to defeat.
An hour, and a considerable number of cuffs, slaps and punches later, Phaid found himself sprayed, shaved, sterilised, retina printed and brain scanned for a second time, indoctrinated, inspected, assigned to a hall and weighed down by a pile of clothing and bedding.
The technicians in the road service are indoctrinated constantly with the idea that their job is a sacred trust.
Remember, the degenerates on the left who want to sell Americans on the idea that homosexuality, bisexuality, transexuality, even sex with animals is normal are using porn as a way to indoctrinate the sheeple - while making their fortunes.
Kruschev sends his sloganeering robots into the bracero community, where they spout Commie rebop and corrupt a youth group that Big Pete has been indoctrinating into Americanism.
In may of the large cities, in Paris, Lyons, Aix and Bordeaux, there are two clubs in partnership,[23] one, more or less respectable and parliamentary, "composed partly of the members of the different branches of the administration and specially devoted to purposes of general utility," and the other, practical and active, made up of bar room politicians and club-haranguers, who indoctrinate workmen, market-gardeners and the rest of the lower bourgeois class.
Of course, Thor, at thirteen, was much too smart, and had been too indoctrinated by his father on the evils of cults, to even consider this invitation.
Furthermore, she was of the Raven Clan, bom into a tremendously talented family, carefully indoctrinated and trained to assume an execu tive role as the influence of Federated Worlds ex panded into new star systems, needing more Prime Talents.
The sole comfort she derived from the situation was the realization that POPPA wasn't succeeding in totally indoctrinating all of Jefferson's children.
She was no longer limited to those sterling souls, fresh and eager from Academy training, fully indoctrinated in Central Worlds' ethos, conditioned to a set way of thinking and acting, molded according to predetermined physical, intellectual, spiritual, psychological requisites, and not what she had in mind.
We haven't even been able to teach, really, we've just been indoctrinating students in a static field.
These same farmers were then indoctrinated in the care of the laaaddis orchards, reduced to serfs under the yoke of the invaders.