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instil

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in⋅stil

  [in-stil]
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–verb (used with object), -stilled, -stil⋅ling.
instill.
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in·still also in·stil   (ĭn-stĭl')   
tr.v.   in·stilled, in·still·ing, in·stills also in·stils

  1. To introduce by gradual, persistent efforts; implant: "Morality . . . may be instilled into their minds" (Thomas Jefferson).

  2. To pour in (medicine, for example) drop by drop.


[Middle English instillen, from Latin īnstīllāre : in-, into; see in-2 + stīllāre, to drip, drop (from stīlla, drop).]
in'stil·la'tion (ĭn'stə-lā'shən) n., in·still'er n., in·still'ment n.
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