0 to fix beliefs or ideas in someone's mind, especially by repeating them often:
1 to cause someone to have particular beliefs or values by repeating them frequently:
Other writers inculcated similar principles of mapping in encouraging attendance at the exposition.
These tensions were exacerbated by management's desire to inculcate a regimented work ethic and to increase productivity.
The interest in hygiene intersected with a maternalist discourse that inculcated the values of domesticity and celebrated the virtues of motherhood.
How strange it is for books to inculcate one set of ideas, while experience of the world stamps them with all the flagrancy of falsehood.
The movement also aimed to discourage smoking and other offensive habits, to inculcate moral values in children and to encourage regular attendance at church services.
Together they tried to force a literal, dogmatic orthodoxy on believers instead of the true spiritual faith, which could not be inculcated by force.
Ceasing to employ various service groups-for instance at weddings-would inculcate habits of frugality and remove religious impurity, frivolity and vulgarity.
If anything, it was to inculcate as many points of view as possible.
