[with obj.]teach (a person or group) to accept a set of beliefs uncritically 向(人,群体)灌输思想 broadcasting was a vehicle for indoctrinating the masses. 广播是向大众灌输思想的媒介。 ■(archaic)teach or instruct (someone) (古)教,教导(某人) he indoctrinated them in systematic theology. 他用系统的神学教导他们。
early 17th cent.: formerly also as endoctrinate): from en-, in- 'into' + doctrine + -ate, or from obsolete indoctrine (verb), from French endoctriner, based on doctrine 'doctrine'