indoctrinize

English

Alternative forms

• indoctrinise

Etymology

in- +‎ doctrine +‎ -ize

Verb

indoctrinize (third-person singular simple present indoctrinizes, present participle indoctrinizing, simple past and past participle indoctrinized)

1. To indoctrinate.
   • 1922, Southern Baptist Handbook, page 328:

     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.

   • 1962, Antony Pudichery, A Challenge to Educational Rights in Kerala State, India:

     Their 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.

   • 2013, Walter Thornbury, The Life of J. M. W. Turner, page 19:

     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.