indoctrinate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INDOC'TRINATE, verb transitive [Latin in and doctrina, learning.] To teach; to instruct in rudiments or principles. He took much delight in indoctrinating his young unexperienced favorite.
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