inculcated

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Instinct had effaced all that art had inculcated, and Mâdou understood and spoke nothing save his savage dialect.

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  1. transitive verb To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill: inculcating sound principles.
  2. transitive verb To teach (others) by frequent instruction or repetition; indoctrinate: inculcate the young with a sense of duty.

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  • It is no longer a racism based a deliberately-inculcated mass ideological basis for imperialism, which I noticed in an uncle sent to Korea in the early 1950s to shoot at gooks, for instance. —  Dave's Part
  • While these political concepts are socially available - inculcated by particular dimensions of social experience - their application is truncated by the perception that certain phenomena - revealed in Marx's analysis to arise from human customs - instead derive from "objective" characteristics of material objects or processes. —  Roughtheory.org
  • In the sixteenth century the rule and usage of the church had inculcated, as a deep popular prejudice, the notion that a priest could not be married. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
  • How shall liberality be inculcated, and extravagance denounced? —  A Domestic Problem : Work and Culture in the Household
  • Setting aside for the present the consideration of the moral virtues which are thus inculcated, and which are so consistent with a proper devotion to this 'benign art of peace,' we mention a few facts which carry the argument for their worth in themselves The birds and toads devour insects, worms, and grubs, and wherever they are absent, grubs, worms, and insects are greatly multiplied, and the crops suffer. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
 

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