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instruct
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 (label en obsolete) arranged; furnished; provided 2 (label en obsolete) instructed; taught; enlightened n. (label en obsolete) instruction v 1 (label en transitive) to teach by giving instructions 2 (label en transitive) to direct; to order (''usage note'': ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Instruct \In*struct"\, a. [L. instructus, p. p. of instruere to furnish, provide, construct, instruct; pref. in- in, on + struere. See Structure .] Arranged; furnished; provided. [Obs.] ``He had neither ship instruct with oars, nor men.'' --Chapman. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. impart skills or knowledge to; "I taught them French"; "He instructed me in building a boat" [syn: teach , learn ] give instructions or directions for some task; "She instructed the students to work on their pronounciation" make aware of; "Have the students ...
Usage examples of instruct.
On February 26, 1782, the northern province of Friesland voted to instruct its delegates in the States-General to move formally to receive John Adams as minister from the United States.
I should be told as Aes Sedai, Merilille, Adeleas and Vandene will instruct me in this secret I endangered.
I have found that teachings as diverse as the Advaita and the Kabbalah instruct us to transcend our limiting ideas of who we think we are - separate egos and entities - if we are to have freedom.
Sir Bindon Blood was at Agra, when, on the evening of the 28th of July, he received the telegram from the Adjutant-General in India, appointing him to the command of the Malakand Field Force, and instructing him to proceed at once to assume it.
Donald instructed the household robot to waken Sheriff Alvar Kresh and suggest that he join Donald at the scene.
Sleepily, she explained that Rhani had decided she wanted to go to Sovka, three hundred and fifty kilometers north, and had instructed Amri to wake her pilot up.
People had started settling down, pairing off, and having kids, and that, while by no means a problem now, was the reason why the big boys at Headquarters Anchorwhich still meant van Haas and Cockburnhad instructed the landscape people to begin looking at area fill, the solidification and terraforming of the region between Anchors and Gates in each region.
She dropped the voice as Andi neared the door, instructing unromanticly.
The youths of a promising genius were instructed in the arts and sciences, and their price was ascertained by the degree of their skill and talents.
On First-day afternoons she attends a school, to which the children of the rich go, as well as the poor, to be instructed in the Scriptures.
Emperor Maximilian promised his aid to the pope, and in order to expedite matters, the latter changed the summons to Rome to a citation before Cajetan at Augsburg, at the same time instructing the legate to seize the heretic if he did not recant.
Campanian woman had a vision in which the god instructed her to induct her own two adolescent sons, and the Bacchic societies have been conjuncti ever since.
For their sake he has sent me to instruct you that all your battlecraft in the Eden universe must be withdrawn at once.
They had been instructed to wait with five other transports outside the solar system while the Qin battleships attacked the Domain mining station and eliminated the patrolships.
Earlier she had dispatched her maid on an invented errand and, cruelly, instructed the moon-faced male secretary-who was terrified of dogs-to exercise the Bedlington terriers.