0 to put a feeling, idea, or principle gradually into someone's mind, so that it has a strong influence on the way that person thinks or behaves:
It is part of a teacher's job to instil confidence in/into his or her students.
The series seemed to instil documentary and humanitarian characteristics into each film of its own accord, as though a matter of course.
Her mere presence appeared to instil a needed sense of guilt and shame in the children she assumed as her moral burden.
The imposition of bourgeois values, traditionally associated with this sort of activity, and ambitions to instil habits of religious observance, had been modified.
These religious and political value suppliers sought to instil horizontal co-operation and solidarity in a social fabric thoroughly pervaded by clientelism.
It's photocopied and it doesn't exactly instil people to read it.
How to instil greater confidence among older people and the public at large is a considerable challenge.
Control over territory is not enough, however, to instil civility in rebels who are used to terror and predation.
Yet stubborn purists will still try to instil a pre-eminent appreciation for the original written works.