Word Meanings - INSTILL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To

Additional info about word: INSTILL

To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To infuse; impart; inspire; implant; inculcate; insinuate.

Related words: (words related to INSTILL)

• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• INSTILL
  To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• IMBIBITION
  The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the post- mortem imbibition of poisons. Bacon.
• INSTILLATOR
  An instiller.
• IMPARTIAL
  Not partial; not favoring one more than another; treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just. Shak. Jove is impartial, and to both the same. Dryden. A comprehensive and impartial view. Macaulay.
• IMBIBE
  1. To drink in; to absorb; to suck or take in; to receive as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes moisture. 2. To receive or absorb into the mind and retain; as, to imbibe principles; to imbibe errors. 3. To saturate; to
• INSTILLER
  One who instills. Skelton.
• SLOWLY
  In a slow manner; moderately; not rapidly; not early; not rashly; not readly; tardly.
• IMPARTIALIST
  One who is impartial. Boyle.
• IMPARTANCE
  Impartation.
• INFUSER
  One who, or that which, infuses.
• IMPARTIBILITY
  The quality of being impartible; communicability. Blackstone.
• IMPARTER
  One who imparts.
• BYRONIC
  Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron. With despair and Byronic misanthropy. Thackeray
• IMPARTIALNESS
  Impartiality. Sir W. Temple.
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• IMPARTIALLY
  In an impartial manner.
• MALICE
  Any wicked or mischievous intention of the mind; a depraved inclination to mischief; an intention to vex, annoy, or injure another person, or to do a wrongful act without just cause or cause or excuse; a wanton disregard of the rights or safety
• CAUSERIE
  Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• SELF-IMPARTING
  Imparting by one's own, or by its own, powers and will. Norris.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• UNCAUSED
  Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.
• THENCE
  see -wards) thennes, thannes , AS. thanon, thanan, thonan; akin to OHG. dannana, dannan, danan, and G. 1. From that place. "Bid him thence go." Chaucer. When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Mark