Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
- transitive verb To teach (others) by frequent instruction or repetition; indoctrinate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To impress by frequent admonitions, or by forcible statement or argument; enforce or stamp upon the mind.
- Synonyms Ingraft, Instil, etc. See
implant .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; to urge on the mind.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
teach byrepeated instruction. - verb transitive To
induce understanding or a particularsentiment in a person or persons.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In a roundabout way Hernández teaches upper-middle-class kids a lesson that refined mothers used to inculcate from the cradle onward: If you've got it, don't flaunt it.
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In a roundabout way Hernández teaches upper-middle-class kids a lesson that refined mothers used to inculcate from the cradle onward: If you've got it, don't flaunt it.
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Baqwa told Sapa the essence of the day was to "inculcate" a culture of human rights.
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Southern Command significantly broadened the school's core curriculum around the military doctrine of counterinsurgency warfare and expanded enrollment to train -- "inculcate" is the word Gill uses more than once -- Latin American militaries in the cause of anticommunism.
Booman Tribune 2010
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A central purpose of the schools, as stated in the basic curriculum written by Lynd, was to inculcate values in black children that were antithetical to white middle-class life.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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He was unparalleled in his ability to inculcate two worlds as divergent as "church" and "state."
Bishop T.D. Jakes: Honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Bishop T.D. Jakes 2012
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Brown returned to a theme he raised during his surprise visit to the State Board of Education in January of the importance of education not only to deliver academic excellence, but also to "inculcate character."
Louis Freedberg: Brown Attacks Testing and Data as Measures of School Success Louis Freedberg 2011
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Brown returned to a theme he raised during his surprise visit to the State Board of Education in January of the importance of education not only to deliver academic excellence, but also to "inculcate character."
Louis Freedberg: Brown Attacks Testing and Data as Measures of School Success Louis Freedberg 2011
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Newly-minted Information, Communications and Culture Minister, Dr Rais Yatim, has called on Malaysian bloggers to help inculcate the 1Malaysia concept, as espoused by new Prime Minister, Mr. Najib Razak.
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Pronunciation: One of the biggest difficulties a teacher faces when teaching English as a second language is to inculcate proper pronunciation in native speakers.
jimtoole commented on the word inculcate
how can you not love this word? it is has the warmth and smell of an all day sunday dinner, but for education.
October 29, 2007
festivemanb commented on the word inculcate
I read inculcate in a textbook and didn't know what it meant, but loved it anyway because it sounded like milk & honey - I walked around dropping it into sentences here and there, because yeah - it sounds like a smell of an all-day Sunday dinner, so says jimtoole. Then one day a cruel friend inculcated me into the true meaning of inculcate and I was crushed. It seriously has a discrepancy between how cool it sounds and how cool it is.
November 29, 2007
sionnach commented on the word inculcate
Now I'm curious what Weirdnet will say about the word imbued. Guess there's only one way to find out.
November 29, 2007
john commented on the word inculcate
WeirdNet is silent on imbued, but weirdly normal on imbue.
November 29, 2007
reesetee commented on the word inculcate
There's no escaping it--WeirdNet is just...bizarre.
November 29, 2007
minivet commented on the word inculcate
Nice etymology: from Latin "incalcare," stamp in, press upon, itself from "calcare," tread, so ultimately from "calx," heel, and therefore possibly cousin to "caliga," boot, and to the Roman Emperor Caligula (nickname meaning "little boot").
September 27, 2010
qroqqa commented on the word inculcate
Also a surprising etymology, because of the vowel change. The Old Latin rule for unstressed vowels would give incelc- from calc-. Then the dark l rounds and backs and raises the vowel (as in the set velle, volo, vult).
September 28, 2010