indoctrinise

English

Verb

indoctrinise (third-person singular simple present indoctrinises, present participle indoctrinising, simple past and past participle indoctrinised)

1. Alternative form of indoctrinize
   • 1968, A. A. Khan, The Despot, page 40:

     They have successfully indoctrinised them to consider me as the only person in this country deserving to rule;

   • 1989, Siddhārtha, page 50:

     The Brahmins did not worry about their conversion as they indoctrinised the country through their powerful media, press, that the buddhism was not an alien religion but rather a part of Hinduism.

   • 1995, Seamus Finnegan, James Joyce and the Israelites, page 59:

     I particularly use the word "content" with life in the diaspora because the image with which we are indoctrinised is that life in the diaspora cannot be "content".

   • 2015, Bernadette M. Winslow, Maddison – a Close Change:

     Being indoctrinised into a womanhood of putting up with things and men that would not listen to a woman .....was not a womanhood at all ...... it had merely forced me to accept a man with a Brain Injury and make a living at the same time.

Anagrams

• indirections, indiscretion