Edify vs Indoctrinate - What's the difference?
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To build, construct.
* , III.i:
To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.
* Gibbon
* 1813 , The Connecticut Evangelical Magazine, Vol. VI , page 455
To teach with a biased, one-sided or uncritical ideology.
To brainwash.
Edify is a related term of indoctrinate.
As verbs the difference between edify and indoctrinate
is that edify is to build, construct while indoctrinate is to teach with a biased, one-sided or uncritical ideology.edify
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* (archaic)Verb
(en-verb)- That Castle was most goodly edifyde , / And plaste for pleasure nigh that forrest syde
- It does not appear probable that our dispute [about miracles] would either edify or enlighten the public.
- That they ought to edify one another by maintaining and promoting the knowledge of truth.
- (Francis Bacon)