instil

It can also be challenging to instil culture into the hearts and minds of new starters.
Businesses grapple to maintain company culture for their distributed workforces|Jessica Davies|March 2, 2021|Digiday
Thus you will be able to control his mind and to instil within his mind pure and upright desires.
The value of a praying mother|Isabel C. Byrum
It fills me with courage now, and will instil valour into every Irish heart until the crack of doom.
The Whale and the Grasshopper|Seumas O'Brien
I will confess to you I have thought myself hitherto an abler master to instil vice than to teach virtue.
The love letters of Abelard and Heloise|Peter Abelard

What monstrous ingratitude was hers, to endeavor to instil it into her from whom I expected my greatest consolation?
The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete|Jean Jacques Rousseau
I know not how it was, but the appellation, 'my friend,' seemed to instil fresh vigour into me. '
Bentley's Miscellany, Volume II|Various

British Dictionary definitions for instil

instil

US instill

/ (ɪnˈstɪl) /

verb -stils, -stills, -stilling or -stilled (tr)

to introduce gradually; implant or infuse

rare to pour in or inject in drops

Derived forms of instil

instiller, nouninstilment, US instillment or instillation, noun

Word Origin for instil

C16: from Latin instillāre to pour in a drop at a time, from stillāre to drip

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