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Instill   /ɪnstˈɪl/   Listen
Instill

verb
(past & past part. instilled; pres. part. instilling)  (Written also instil)
1.
Impart gradually.  Synonym: transfuse.  "Transfuse love of music into the students"
2.
Enter drop by drop.  Synonym: instil.
3.
Produce or try to produce a vivid impression of.  Synonyms: impress, ingrain.
4.
Teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions.  Synonyms: inculcate, infuse.
5.
Fill, as with a certain quality.  Synonyms: impregnate, infuse, tincture.



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"Instill" Quotes from Famous Books



... Use and Advantage such Things, and from such a Person as Erasmus, may be, and how much they may conduce to the extirpating those Seeds of Popery, that may have been unhappily sown, or may be subtilly instill'd into the Minds of uncautious Persons, under the specious Shew of Sanctity, will, I presume, easily appear. Tho' the Things before-mention'd may be Reason sufficient for the turning these Colloquies of Erasmus into English, that so useful a Treatise may not be ...
— Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. • Erasmus

... foretell, distill, instill and fulfill retain the double ll of their primitives. Derivatives of dull, skill, will and full also retain the double ll when the accent falls on these words; ...
— The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing - A Manual of Ready Reference • Joseph Triemens

... the religious atmosphere of Senator Dilworthy's house had been sufficient to instill into Laura that deep Christian principle which had been somehow omitted in her training. Indeed in that very house had she not heard women, prominent before the country and besieging Congress, utter sentiments that fully justified the course she ...
— The Gilded Age, Part 5. • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner

... being assisted from France, though our Commander neglected no Pains to instill such a Belief into the Generality of the Soldiers, in order to prolong his Reign in that honourable Post he enjoy'd, yet I read it plainly in my old Captain's Forehead, that France was not accustom'd to open their Treasures in countenancing Chimerical Adventures, ...
— Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718) • Daniel Defoe

... children, the father counts only the boys. Boys are clothed in the finest material the family can afford; girls, in rags. Parents may destroy their children, but only girls are ever sacrificed. The mother can seldom read and write, her chief duty being to instill into her children the two cardinal Chinese virtues—politeness and obedience. The relation of parents and children is the highest and purest representation of the relation between the Creator and the creature, and to venerate the parents is the first and holiest of all ...
— History of Education • Levi Seeley


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