instiller

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noun

One who instills.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

nouninstiller (plural instillers)

plural instillers

  1. One who instills.

    As is th' instiller of divinest love Unchang'd by time immortal maugre death.

    1601, John Marston, What you Will
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    Never was there such a juggle as was played in my mind, nor so artful an instiller of loose principles, as my Tutor

    1749, Philip Skelton, Ophiomaches: Or, Deism Revealed

    This faithful advisor or instiller of doubts about the religion states: the religion's goal on earth contradicts the government's goal on earth.

    2012, Simon A. Wood, Christian Criticisms, Islamic Proofs

    Whilst many believed that he was only an accessory and had not been involved in any active killing, Major Royale, increasingly through his inebriate haze, believed that this man was the generator, the instiller of planned thoughts, the procreator of violence.

    2013, Caroline Cressey, The Bluebell Wood, page 131
  2. obsoleteAn eyedropper.

    While on the subject of eye instruments, we must notice Dr. Lewis's instiller for collyria.

    1851, “The Great Exhibition”, in The Medical times

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