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verb

Instruct v. t. (past & past part. instructed; pres. part. instructing)

1.

To put in order; to form; to prepare. (Obs.) "They speak to the merits of a cause, after the proctor has prepared and instructed the same for a hearing."

2.

To form by communication of knowledge; to inform the mind of; to impart knowledge or information to; to enlighten; to teach; to discipline. "Schoolmasters will I keep within my house, Fit to instruct her youth."

3.

To furnish with directions; to advise; to direct; to command; as, the judge instructs the jury. "She, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger." "Take her in; instruct her what she has to do."

Synonyms: To teach; educate; inform; train; discipline; indoctrinate; direct; enjoin.

adjective

Instruct adj.

1.

Arranged; furnished; provided. (Obs.) "He had neither ship instruct with oars, nor men."

2.

Instructed; taught; enlightened. (Obs.)

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"Instruct" Quotes from Famous Books

... paying the same tuition. In all, the colored people were paying these teachers about $1,300 a year. The only help the Negroes were then receiving was that from the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, which employed one Miss Seymour at a salary of $300 a year to instruct fifty-four pupils. Moreover, the colored people were giving liberally to objects of charity. Some Negroes burned out in 1839 were promptly relieved by members of their own race. A white family in distress was befriended by a colored woman. The Negroes contributed also ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916 • Various

... forty pounds on the security of the MSS., an advance which Cottle declined to make, though he sent Coleridge "some smaller temporary relief." The letter concludes with a reference to a project for taking a house and receiving pupils to hoard and instruct, which Cottle appeared to consider the crowning "degradation ...

— English Men of Letters: Coleridge • H. D. Traill

... papers of the Manchester Society, in Franklin's letters, in Priestley's and Percival's works, there may be found a variety of simple experiments which require no great apparatus, and which will at once amuse and instruct. All the papers of the Manchester Society, upon the repulsion and attraction of oil and water, are particularly suited to children, because they state a variety of simple facts; the mind is led to reason upon them, and induced to judge of the different conclusions which are drawn from ...

— Practical Education, Volume I • Maria Edgeworth

... Constitution declared "that a school or schools shall be established by the Legislature for the convenient instruction of youth, with such salaries to the masters, paid by the public, as may enable them to instruct at low prices. All useful learning shall be duly encouraged and promoted in ...

— School History of North Carolina • John W. Moore

... street arrayed in these brilliant and barbarous habiliments, but reflecting that the citizens traveling the streets at this hour would perhaps take him for some high official in one of the many fraternal orders that entertain, instruct, and edify the inhabitants of the city, he proceeded on his way somewhat reassured. As he was changing cars well toward his lodgings, at a corner where a large public hall reared its facade, he heard himself accosted, and turning, beheld a portly person wearing a gilt paper ...

— The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton • Wardon Allan Curtis

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