Inculcate vs Inoculate - What's the difference?
inculcate | inoculate |
To teach by repeated instruction.
To induce understanding or a particular sentiment in a person or persons.
(immunology) To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body, as to produce immunity to a specific disease.
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(by extension) To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation.
To add one substance to another; to spike.
To graft by inserting buds.
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(figurative) To introduce into the mind (used especially of harmful ideas or principles); to imbue.
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As verbs the difference between inculcate and inoculate
is that inculcate is to teach by repeated instruction while inoculate is to introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body, as to produce immunity to a specific disease.inculcate
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(inculcat)Quotations
{{timeline, 1900s=}} * 1932': Wordless conditioning ... cannot '''inculcate the more complex courses of behaviour. — ''Brave New World , Aldous Huxley * 1943': The right defense against false sentiments is to '''inculcate just sentiments. — ''The Abolition of Man , C. S. Lewisinoculate
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Alternative forms
* innoculateVerb
- The culture medium was inoculated with selenium to investigate the rate of uptake.
- to inoculate the bud of one tree or plant into another
- to inoculate a tree
- to inoculate someone with treason or infidelity