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Answer for the clue "Taught ", 8 letters:
lessoned

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vb. (en-past of: lesson)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lesson \Les"son\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lessoned (-s'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Lessoning .] To teach; to instruct. --Shak. To rest the weary, and to soothe the sad, Doth lesson happier men, and shame at least the bad. --Byron.

Usage examples of lessoned.

That Morheim boy—he was lessoned once or twice by his father, right out before the whole garth—for doin' wrong.

But Father lessoned us severely when we made too-easy recourse to our Gifts, on the grounds that the Gurlys held an ever-growing hatred for what they deemed the Black Arts, and it was best not to give any clansman cause to suspect we had been tutored in arcane lore.

As to what we may be—we are also of the Scorpy line, and we were born with the Talent and have been lessoned in its use—though what came to us this day was greater than we have known before.

She was offered a comb to set her short cut locks into order, still being lessoned all the while in the language.