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English
Etymology
From in- + doctrine + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French endoctriner.
Pronunciation
Verb
indoctrinate (third-person singular simple present indoctrinates, present participle indoctrinating, simple past and past participle indoctrinated)
- To teach with a biased, one-sided or uncritical ideology; to brainwash.
- (obsolete) To teach; to instruct.
Derived terms
Translations
teach with a biased or one-sided ideology
Further reading
- “indoctrinate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “indoctrinate”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.