1Teach (a person or group) to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.
‘broadcasting was a vehicle for indoctrinating the masses’
‘Has an atheist who practices religion in Borneo overcome the beliefs he was indoctrinated with?’
‘She begs him to teach and indoctrinate her into the ways of what he does.’
‘According to theologian, we are all indoctrinated in the myth of redemptive violence: The basic belief that violence can create peace.’
‘I dropped my belief in a god several years ago and I was indoctrinated in one of the most religiously oriented states in America.’
‘Would they brainwash and indoctrinate me with utopian, sci-fi visions of an alternate reality?’
‘In some societies children are indoctrinated in religious beliefs and values.’
‘‘If our aim is to indoctrinate students with unpatriotic beliefs,’ he said, ‘we're obviously doing a very poor job of it’.’
‘Her character talks about how having a baby indoctrinates you, like it or not, into a great big club.’
‘If the attempts are successful, students will be indoctrinated with pseudoscientific beliefs and will leave school with warped and restricted views of reality.’
‘At school, like my peers, I was indoctrinated in the mysteries of original and venal sin, virgin birth, the respective criteria for entry to limbo, purgatory, and heaven.’
‘But both parties must realise that marriage is a far less definitive, far less protective and far less stable force than we are indoctrinated to believe.’
‘At 10 he was shipped off to a Roman Catholic military academy in Los Angeles where he was indoctrinated by ‘tough Irish nuns’.’
‘But feminism has too fully indoctrinated us in the idea that the female position is necessarily the weaker one.’
‘Once you are indoctrinated into these organizations, there's no turning back.’
‘Nurses have been indoctrinated with the belief that doctors are capable of exercising only a cold, scientific medical model.’
‘Each episode their singing slowly indoctrinated me into the religion known as modern music.’
‘I was born into a staunch Roman Catholic family and was indoctrinated with those beliefs as I grew up.’
‘The consumer media culture indoctrinates us into believing that what we do for work and the success we have there is a measure of our worth as individuals.’
Early 17th century formerly also as endoctrinate): from en-, in-‘into’ + doctrine+ -ate, or from obsolete indoctrine (verb), from French endoctriner, based on doctrine ‘doctrine’.
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