▪ I. † inˈculcate, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. inculcātus, pa. pple. of inculcāre: see next.]
Inculcated, taught. (Const. as pa. pple. or adj.)
| 1608 Willet Hexapla Exod. 308 Wee had neede to haue the word of God often inculcate and beaten vpon vs. 1643 Sir J. Spelman Case of Affairs 22 The duty which..hath both by Law and Christian Religion been inculcate to him. 1647 H. More Poems 154 Phansie? that's so swayd..By botched inculcate paradigms made By senses dictate. 1653 ― Conject. Cabbal. (1662) 175 Long inculcate Precepts..mistaken for connate Principles. |
▪ II. inculcate, v.
(ˈɪnkəlkeɪt, ɪnˈkʌlkeɪt)
[f. L. inculcāt-, ppl. stem of inculcāre to stamp in with the heel, tread in, cram in, press in, impress upon (the mind), f. in- (in-2) + calcāre to tread, f. calc-, calx heel. As to the pronunciation, see contemplate.]
1. trans. To endeavour to force (a thing) into or impress (it) on the mind of another by emphatic admonition, or by persistent repetition; to urge on the mind, esp. as a principle, an opinion, or a matter of belief; to teach forcibly. Const. upon, on; † formerly in, into, unto, to.
| 1550 Coverdale Spir. Perle xxviii. O iv, This practyse dyd the holy elect of god in the olde time not onli inculcate and teach with words, but also expresse and performe in dede. 1559 Bp. Scot Sp. in Strype Ann. Ref. (1824) I. ii. App. vii. 418 The aucthoritie of the bisshoppe of Rome..some inculcate against us, as a matter of great weight. 1594 Hooker Eccl. Pol. iii. xi. §11 That commandement which Christ did so often inculcate vnto Peter. 1633 T. Stafford Pac. Hib. ii. iii. (1810) 251 Yet was not hee ashamed..to inculcate into the eares of the Pope..that shee was more tyranicall than Pharaoh. 1678 R. Barclay Apol. Quakers vii. viii. 225 He presses this exhortation upon them, and inculcates it three times. 1700 Prior Carmen Sec. 165 And still the Sire inculcate to his Son, Transmissive Lessons of the King's Renown. 1736 Butler Anal. ii. i. 142 A standing Admonition, to remind them of it, and inculcate it upon them. 1741 Middleton Cicero xii. II. 518 This is the notion that he inculcates everywhere of true glory. 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 210 The moralist will begin with striving to inculcate this desire of happiness into himself and others as deeply as possible. 1792 Anecd. W. Pitt II. xxxv. 263 These three words..deserve to be inculcated in our minds. 1792 Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 3 You cannot too often inculcate to your chief friends, that this affair..cannot possibly be the work of a single day. 1802 M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1816) I. xi. 89 An opinion..difficult to inculcate upon the minds of others. 1809 Susan I. 155 The conception..had inculcated itself..into her mind. 1866 Felton Anc. & Mod. Gr. II. i. iii. 47 All these teachers inculcate..the duties of order, obedience and fidelity, on the slaves. 1874 Green Short Hist. viii. §2 These..inculcated passive obedience to the monarch as a religious obligation. |
† 2. To tread upon, trample, press with the feet.
| 1597 A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. *iij, The earth which with our feete we inculcate and treade one. 1657 Tomlinson Renou's Disp. iii. ii. v. 127 A certain Cloth..is often dipped and inculcated [L. inculcatur] in a fit Emplaister already made up. |