(v. t.) To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth.
(v. t.) To make clear to the intellect or conscience; to shed the light of truth and knowledge upon; to furnish with increase of knowledge; to instruct; as, to enlighten the mind or understanding.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Kalachakra Puja takes place in the eastern state of Bihar at the holy Bodhgaya site, where the Buddha gained enlightenment.
(2) As Justices Stewart and White famously said, "the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power in the areas of national defence and international affairs may lie in an enlightened citizenry – in an informed and critical public opinion which alone can here protect the values of democratic government".
(3) Society now takes a more enlightened, community-based approach for people like my daughter.
(4) The study was aimed at the enlightenment of intracortical spreading mechanisms in focal epileptic seizures produced by local application of Acetylcholine.
(5) Surjit S Bhalla, a Delhi-based consultant and former World Bank economist, said the British decision was "enlightened".
(6) With careful and enlightened use, pesticide toxicity, to both man and the environment, could be significantly reduced.
(7) Marginalised and wronged groups have been able to use online campaigns to usher us all forward into a more enlightened era in which we are more open-minded about the LGBQT community, disability, race, religion and so forth.
(8) These data provide further enlightenment regarding the mechanisms of the well-preserved functional capacity noted in these patients.
(9) We were enlightened by this therapeutic experience, so we attempted combination therapy using pepleomycin suppositories to supplement intra-cavitary irradiation, for the 11 selected patients who were suffering from uterine fluor.
(10) In the time of enlightenment more and more people thought, that very much cases of suicide were committed in severe illness.
(11) Possible causes have to be seen in long time of hospitalisation (average = 304 days), and apparent inadequate enlightenment of patients and in functionally and cosmetically insufficiencies.
(12) Our purpose is to enlighten the central position of competence in cognitive structures and coping systems of the patients.
(13) in 1991, French philosophy enjoyed a golden age akin to classical Greece or Enlightenment Germany.
(14) I haven't felt this enlightened since extraordinary rendition.
(15) People don’t have sex within only one borough – an example of why balkanisation is more expensive than collectivism The immediate anxiety was that elected officials are often not public health experts: you might get a very enlightened council, who understood the needs of the disenfranchised and prioritised them; or you might get a bunch of puffed-up moralists who spent their syphilis budget on a new aqua aerobics provision for the overweight.
(16) Daud Naji, an Enlighten Movement leader, said on Sunday that they had been told only that there was a “heightened risk” of attack and had subsequently cancelled nine of 10 planned routes.
(17) Beverage price increases were regarded to be the least effective approach by nurses and clerical employees, while physicians felt that the press was the least likely source of enlightenment.
(18) The first museums on history of nature were opened in early Enlightenment and had originated from baroque curio galleries at most of the European courts.
(19) But then the dislocations and traumas caused by industralisation and urbanisation accelerated the growth of ideologies of race and blood in even enlightened western Europe.
(20) Had English rulers taken a more enlightened view of gender issues they might not have got into such a mess.
Inculcate
Definition:
(v. t.) To teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; to urge on the mind; as, Christ inculcates on his followers humility.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have to, as a nation, understand that the hate we allow to go unchecked and the fear we inculcate in the next generation of professionals and leaders causes them great damage and ultimately damages all of us.
(2) The original intent of the program was to increase the acceptance of quality assurance activities among student physicians, inculcating in them the importance of peer review at an early stage in professional development.
(3) The scheme described was inculcated in the All-Union Research Center for Haematology, Ministry of Health, USSR, Moscow, Research Institute for Obstetrics and Gynecology, Leningrad, Institute of Medical Genetics, Greifswald, DDR.
(4) While there was support for some elements of simple deterrence theory, the findings are more fully accommodated by the inculcation process implied in general deterrence theory.
(5) Occasionally, parents should be invited to these discussions as well so that the inculcation can continue at home.
(6) Schools, community leaders, and family members should help inculcate norms of respect.
(7) At the same time, the Observer believes Mr Cameron's renowned lack of attention to detail, and a casual disregard for consequences (perhaps his wealth has immured him from the habit), means that the very values that the big society is intended to inculcate and cherish are being rapidly undermined, widening inequality and accelerating social injustice.
(8) However, inculcating computer competency in faculty and student repertoires is not an easy task.
(9) In an open letter to the General Medical Council this independent group, drawn from several branches of the profession, expressed the belief that undergraduate medical education was failing in two respects; first, in the extent to which it equips doctors with the capacity to think critically for themselves; and secondly, in the degree to which it inculcates a broad and sensitive outlook towards the health of both individuals and communities.
(10) Analyzed cross-cultural child inculcation data from Barry, Josephson, Lauer, & Marshall (1976) by testing a hypothesis derived from natural selection theory: The ways in which boys are trained (vs. those for girls) should correlate with male and female reproductive strategies prevalent in each society.
(11) Clinical observations and results of laboratory test indicate that only early diagnosis of DIC syndrome and thereby an instant inculcation of heparin therapy allow to gain complete remission of hemostatic disturbances in acutely intoxicated persons.
(12) This difference may be due to a modesty inculcated by the social milieu of girls from less traditional backgrounds.
(13) Education secretary Michael Gove has attacked universities for turning out young social workers inculcated with "idealistic left-wing dogma" who wrongly see parents as disempowered "victims of social injustice".
(14) These principles are best inculcated by the proper exposure of medical students to substance-abuse problems and by the availability of appropriate courses and studies in this area to practising physicians.
(15) Appreciation of the role of the environment in maintaining functional capacity should be inculcated in practitioners treating the elderly.
(16) Our findings further suggest that to inculcate the relaxation response reliably across different situations, specific training to enhance generalization may be needed.
(17) Principles and procedures are usually deeply inculcated in students by their teachers, which has a wide-spread effect on the future of dentists and patients.
(18) An overview of popular approaches to values education includes inculcation, value clarification, moral development, and value analysis.
(19) It is postulated that as government and public become increasingly involved in health care, it is of paramount importance that medical education should provide a clear understanding of what a profession is and inculcate a determination to maintain true professional status.
(20) Gove says that in the aftermath of the Birmingham schools "Trojan horse" controversy, schools must inculcate British values , and that governors must demonstrate "fundamental British values".