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Part of Speech: verb transitive
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1.
To bring or guide the powers
of,
as a
child;
to develop and cultivate,
whether physically,
mentally,
or morally,
but more commonly
limited to the mental activities or senses;
to expand, strengthen,
and discipline,
as the mind, a
faculty, etc.,.
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Auxiliary to all this, and working hand in hand with it, the Nebraska doctrine, or what is left of it, is to educate and mould public opinion, at least Northern public opinion, not to care whether slavery is voted down or voted up. - "The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17", Charles Francis Horne.
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His mother, a widow, managed to educate him, but that was all; they were really very poor, and Stephen was hard at work before he was twenty. - "The Front Yard", Constance Fenimore Woolson.
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Doubtless it was not the intention of my sister at this time to educate me. - "Confessions of Boyhood", John Albee.