Inculcation - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: inculcationInculcate
To teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions to urge on the mind as Christ inculcates on his followers humility...
Inculcator
One who inculcates...
Confucianism
The political morality taught by Confucius and his disciples which forms the basis of the Chinese jurisprudence and education It can hardly be called a religion as it does not inculcate the worship of any god...
Ghost dance
A religious dance of the North American Indians participated in by both sexes and looked upon as a rite of invocation the purpose of which is through trance and vision to bring the dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits of departed friends The dance is the chief rite of the Ghost dance or Messiah religion which originated about 1890 in the doctrines of the Piute Wovoka the Indian Messiah who taught that the time was drawing near when the whole Indian race the dead with the living should be reunited to live a life of millennial happiness upon a regenerated earth The religion inculcates peace righteousness and work and holds that in good time without warlike intervention the oppressive white rule will be removed by the higher powers The religion spread through a majority of the western tribes of the United States only in the case of the Sioux owing to local causes leading to an outbreak...
Inculcation
A teaching and impressing by frequent repetitions...
Inculk
To inculcate...
Judaize
To conform to the doctrines observances or methods of the Jews to inculcate or impose Judaism...
Judaizer
One who conforms to or inculcates Judaism...
Moralist
One who moralizes one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties...
New Thought
Any form of belief in mental healing other than 1 Christian Science and 2 hypnotism or psychotherapy It was practised in the 19th century and its central principle was affirmative thought or suggestion employed with the conviction that man produces changes in his health his finances and his life by the adoption of a favorable mental attitude As a therapeutic doctrine it stands for silent and absent mental treatment and the theory that all diseases are mental in origin As a cult it has its unifying idea the inculcation of workable optimism in contrast with the ldquoold thoughtrdquo of sin evil predestination and pessimistic resignation The term is essentially synonymous with the term High Thought used in England...
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