Definition of Instil

1. Verb. Enter drop by drop. "Instill medication into my eye"

Exact synonyms: Instill
Generic synonyms: Enter, Infix, Insert, Introduce
Derivative terms: Instilment, Instillation, Instillation, Instillator, Instillment

Definition of Instil

1. Verb. (alternative spelling of instill) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Instil

1. to instill [v -STILLED, -STILLING, -STILS] - See also: instill

Lexicographical Neighbors of Instil

instep
insteps
instigant
instigate
instigated
instigates
instigating
instigatingly
instigation
instigations
instigative
instigator
instigators
instigatour
instigatrix
instil (current term)
instill
instillation
instillations
instillator
instilled
instiller
instillers
instilling
instillment
instillments
instills
instilment
instils
instimulate

Literary usage of Instil

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Haste therefore, and instil ambrosia sweet 410 (Lest he should faint) and nectar on his lips." He spoke, and kindled in Athene's breast The love, ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1891)
"... filling also from 1822 the chair of Hebrew in the collegiate department of the instil u- tion till the establishment of the Queen's College in Is li». ..."

3. A Selection of Leading Cases in Equity: With Notes by Frederick Thomas White, Owen Davies Tudor, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace (1877)
"But I must differ from Mr Justice Eyre, as to sending the infant to a public school, which may be thought likely to instil into him notions of slavery.1 ..."

4. The New Laokoon: An Essay on the Confusion of the Arts by Irving Babbitt (1910)
"The power of poetry is, by a single word, perhaps, to instil energy into the mind, which compels the imagination to produce the picture. ..."

5. Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge by Sara Coleridge Coleridge, Edith Coleridge (1873)
"I. Early Training—How to instil right Principles of Conduct; and teach a Child the use of his Mind—A Little Boy's notion of Parental Discipline. ..."

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