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Definition of Engrains
1. engrain [v] - See also: engrain
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Literary usage of Engrains
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1. Mental Science: A Compendium of Psychology, and the History of Philosophy by Alexander Bain (1870)
"... characterized neither by pleasure nor by pain, detains the mind upon the cause
of it tor a considerable time, and engrains it as a durable recollection, ..."
2. Outlines of Evolutionary Biology by Arthur Dendy (1912)
"There are, then, two distinct sets of factors which determin. the individual
development of any organism, first the inherit-,: tendencies, or " engrains," ..."
3. Human Behavior: In Relation to the Study of Educational, Social, and Ethical by Stewart Paton (1921)
"... the same sensory impressions in the brain, and (3) by anomalies occurring in
the mechanisms of reproduction or the recall of engrains (disturbances of ..."
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