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inculcated

[in-kuhl-keyt, in-kuhl-keyt]

Origin

verb (used with object), -cat·ed, -cat·ing.

to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually followed by upon or in): to inculcate virtue in the young.

to cause or influence (someone) to accept an idea or feeling (usually followed by with): Socrates inculcated his pupils with the love of truth.

Origin:
1540–50; < Latin inculcātus past participle of inculcāre to trample, impress, stuff in, equivalent to in- in-² + culc- (variant, in noninitial position, of calc-, stem of calx heel) + -ātus -ate¹

Related forms

in·cul·ca·tion, noun

in·cul·ca·tive

[in-kuhl-kuh-tiv] , in·cul·ca·to·ry, adjective

in·cul·ca·tor, noun

Can be confused: inculcate, indoctrinate.

Synonyms
1. instill, infix, ingrain.

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Word Origin & History

inculcate

1540s, from L. inculcatus, pp. of inculcare "force upon, stamp in," from in- "in" + calcare "to tread, press in," from calx (1) "heel."

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"There is a species of scepticism antecedent to all study and philosophy, which is much inculcated by Descartes and others, as a sovereign preservative against error and precipitate judgment. It recommends an universal doubt, not only of all our former opinions and principles, but also of our very faculties; of whose veracity, say they, we must assure ourselves, by a chain of reasoning, deduced from some original principle, which cannot be fallacious or deceitful.... The Cartesian doubt, therefore, were it ever possible to be attained by any human creature (as it plainly is not) would be entirely incurable; and no reasoning could ever bring us to a state of assurance and conviction upon any subject."

-David Hume

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