ˈdoctrinate, v. arch.
[f. med.L. doctrīnāre, -īnāt- to teach, instruct, f. doctrīna: see -ate3 5.]
trans. To teach or instruct; = doctrine v. a.; absol. To give instruction (on a subject).
| 1631 Heywood Eng. Eliz. (1641) 33 They were doctrinated and instructed, either in language, or some of the liberall sciences. 1638 Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 46 They are of Pythagora's doctrinating..in beleeving the Metempsychosis of the soule. 1651 Fuller's Abel Rediv., Chytraeus 421 Most profoundly by him doctrinated. 1840 Marryat Olla Podr. (Rtldg.) 282 On that..you have not yet doctrinated. |