† inculkv.
Obsolete.
transitive. = inculcate v.
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1528 in Burnet Hist. Ref. II. 85 To inculke unto Him the said Points and Considerations.
1537 Inst. Christen Man (new ed.) F vij b These thynges..shoulde be continually taughte and inculked into the eares of all true christen people.
1547 S. Gardiner Let. 10 June in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 740/1 Yf your grace thinke not your selfe encombred with my babling and inculking.
1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions i. iii. f. 21v Which sentence S. Paule.., went about to inculke into the minds of the Athenians.
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