Word Meanings - INCULCATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; to urge on the mind; as, Christ inculcates on his followers humility. The most obvious and necessary duties of life they have not yet had authority enough to enforce and inculcate upon

Additional info about word: INCULCATE

To teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; to urge on the mind; as, Christ inculcates on his followers humility. The most obvious and necessary duties of life they have not yet had authority enough to enforce and inculcate upon men's minds. S. Clarke. Syn. -- To instill; infuse; implant; engraft; impress. (more info) pref. in- in, on + calcare to tread, fr. calx the heel; perh. akin to

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INCULCATE)

• Impress Stamp
• print
• imprint
• inculcate
• fix deeply
• Instil
• Pour
• infuse
• introduce
• import
• implant
• insinuate
• Press Urge
• crowd
• compel
• force
• squeeze
• crush
• compress
• express
• constrain
• hurry
• instigate
• impress
• throng
• encroach
• lean
• weigh
• harass
• Teach
• Impart
• tell
• direct
• instruct
• inform
• counsel
• admonish
• educate
• enlighten
• advise
• indoctrinate
• train

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INCULCATE)

• Learn
• be impressed
• be studious
• be mindful

Related words: (words related to INCULCATE)

• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• ADMONISHER
  One who admonishes.
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• ENCROACHER
  One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• INSTILL
  To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
• TEACHABLENESS
  Willingness to be taught.
• INFORMOUS
  Of irregular form; shapeless. Sir T. Browne.
• PRINTLESS
  Making no imprint. Milton.
• IMPRINT
  to imprint, fr. L. imprimere to impres, imprint. See 1st In-, Print, 1. To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp. And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands. Prior. 2. To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates,
• HARASS
  To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature
• IMPORTUNELY
  In an importune manner.
• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• CROWD
  1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas
• IMPORTUNATOR
  One who importunes; an importuner. Sir E. Sandys.
• DIRECT ACTION
  See BELOW
• LEARN
  linon, for lirnon, OHG. lirnen, lernen, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l to teach, OS. lerian, OHG.leran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted ; all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf.
• INSTILLATOR
  An instiller.
• ENSTAMP
  To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• WELL-INFORMED
  Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent.
• MISADVISE
  To give bad counsel to.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• PREINSTRUCT
  To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• HOTPRESSED
  Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t.