What's the difference between imbue and inculcate?

Imbue


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.
  • (v. t.) To tincture deply; to cause to become impressed or penetrated; as, to imbue the minds of youth with good principles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She has imbued me with the confidence of encouraging other girls to dream alternative futures that do not rely on FGM as a prerequisite.
  • (2) According to Deborah Mattinson, his pollster, Brown " loved slogans and believed them to be imbued with a mystical power capable of persuading the most intransigent voter", and therefore went a bundle on them – not least " A future fair for all ", the surreal dud with which Labour went to the country in 2010, following 2005's equally idiotic " forward not back ".
  • (3) Second, the thymus imbues T cells with the property of H-2-restricted recognition of antigen, that is, the capacity of T cells to react with foreign antigens presented in association with self H-2 gene products.
  • (4) Therefore, roentgenographic evidence of bone destruction or skeletal stigmata of hyperparathyroidism imbues laboratory data with greater significance.
  • (5) They share language, values and attitudes, all imbued during a common childhood and youth.
  • (6) But Fulham were unshackled, imbued with enhanced belief and, when Dejagah crossed low from the right, Richardson, an integral part of West Bromwich Albion's great escape round these parts in 2005, dispatched a fierce, left-footed shot into the far top corner from the edge of the penalty area.
  • (7) And whatever else happens, get some teachers and school leaders on this committee – people from the chalkface imbued with common sense and the experience to make the right decisions.
  • (8) He is convinced that the legends’ sporting training has imbued them with values such as humility, discipline and the tenacity to succeed.
  • (9) Physiognomic perception, a cognitive style dimension through which people imbue objects with varying degrees of affect, was measured by a standardized and validated instrument known as the Stein Physiognomic Cue Test.
  • (10) A clean and thorough audit was integral to the imbuing the new administration with full legitimacy, he added.
  • (11) It would be imbued with nostalgia for the prelapsarian America, and it would capture the sense of community that Walt Disney spent his whole life trying to distil, bottle and sell.
  • (12) He could take the most pitiful souls – his CV was populated almost exclusively by snivelling wretches, insufferable prigs, braggarts and outright bullies – and imbue each of them with a wrenching humanity.
  • (13) The struggle against the enemy is imbued in people from the earliest age.
  • (14) Some people – often due to earlier, familial experiences of loving an unavailable person such as an absent or depressed mother – tend to find themselves in adult relationships where they continue to remain imbued with longing.
  • (15) Biology engineers structures on the molecular scale but biomolecules do not seem to be imbued with useful electronic properties.
  • (16) The days when many members of mainstream parties, particularly on the left, refused to share a platform with extremists to avoid imbuing them with political legitimacy appear to be over.
  • (17) In fact, I would be Hayley, had a troop of philanthropic Guardianistas not adopted me from a Yates's Wine Lodge car park in the late-90s, weaned me on a diet of polenta chips, broad bean-based mezze and exemplary goose eggs, and then imbued me with a love of special "Tandem Riding In Andalucia" travel supplements and freeing Burma or boycotting Burma, or whatever we're doing with Burma this week (I'm never sure).
  • (18) There is only loveliness, along with a puppy in mittens, a palpable respect for tradition and a gentle, hand-drawn tale so imbued with the wonder of childhood it will charm baubles from trees and coax tears from coffee tables.
  • (19) Significantly, perhaps, having witnessed the failure of two bright new dawns - those of postwar communism and post-cold war capitalism - the Leipzig painters are seen as having an atmosphere of disillusionment in common; their work is imbued with a deep melancholy.
  • (20) Recalling the year's challenges – sporting, logistical and meteorological — she spoke of the sense of achievement and demonstration of public-spiritedness that had imbued the nation during 2012.

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".