Meanings
present singular third person indoctrinizes · participle present indoctrinizing · participle past indoctrinized · past indoctrinized · alternative indoctrinise
- To indoctrinate.
Turner was sent to an aunt at Brentford; and there received, as London boys do at country schools, both health and learning -—being at once oxygenized and indoctrinized.
2013, Walter Thornbury, The Life of J. M. W. Turner, page 192 more examples
But again, I repeat, if Southern Baptists ever expect to evangelize and indoctrinize the people of the South we must go out to the 25,000,000 and more round about our country churches, before the floodtide of isms engulfs these little churches and the unionizers compromise and eliminate them.
1922, Southern Baptist Handbook, page 328Their first attempt in this line will be to liquidate Christian schools and alienate Christian atmoshere in education and indoctrinize the youth as is traditional with Communist party in every country.
1962, Antony Pudichery, A Challenge to Educational Rights in Kerala State, India
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