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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



... association has been quite definitely set forth in my "Historical Sketch"[1] and in my report for 1912. From these the following statement is very largely borrowed. The fundamental purpose of the Intercollegiate Peace Association is to instill into the minds and hearts of the young men of our colleges and universities the principle that the highest ideals of justice and righteousness should govern the conduct of men in all their international affairs quite as much as in purely individual and social matters, ...
— Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association • Intercollegiate Peace Association
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... experienced our only answer to the latter possibility. While providing man with everything to which he has aspired for milleniums, we instill in him, through the media of entertainment, knowledge of all the survival practices known to the backtimers who painfully nurtured civilization from an embryonic idea to its present pinnacle. We can ...
— DP • Arthur Dekker Savage
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... not ask a man: "Would you like to do such-and-such a task?" when he has already made up his mind to assign him to a certain line of duty. Orders, hesitatingly given, are doubtfully received. But the right way to do it is to instill the idea of collaboration. There is something irresistably appealing about such an approach as: "I need your help. Here's ...
— The Armed Forces Officer - Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 • U. S. Department of Defense
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... Edison is doing an enormous amount of work in steadily plodding away at the electric light business. He has solved the question as far as New York is concerned and as far as central station lighting is concerned; and all we want on this side is to instill more confidence into our capitalists, to try and induce them to unbutton their pockets and give us money to carry out ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 • Various
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Words linked to "Instill" :   tincture, din, insert, add, introduce, move, impress, lend, breathe, enter, strike, fill, infix, bring, impregnate, inculcate, affect, fill up, make full, contribute, drill, impart, instil, bestow


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