Sekirov Dictionary

instruct

/ɪnˈstɹʌkt/

verb 3
adjective 2
noun 1
forms 5

verb3

•
To tell (someone) what they must or should do.
- Usage note: "instruct" is less forceful than "order", but weightier than "advise"
- The doctor instructed me to keep my arm immobilised and begin physiotherapy.
•
To give (one's own lawyer) legal instructions as to how they should act in relation to a particular issue; thereby formally appointing them as one's own legal representative in relation to it.
- If you're not careful, I'm going to instruct a solicitor over this.
•
To teach by giving instructions.
- Listen carefully when someone instructs you how to assemble the furniture.

adjective2

•
(no longer used) Instructed; taught; enlightened.
- Who ever by consulting at thy shrine Return’d the wiser, or the more instruct To flye or follow what concern’d him most, And run not sooner to his fatal snare? — 1671
•
(no longer used) Arranged; furnished; provided.
- For he had neither ship, instruct with oares, Nor men to fetch him from those stranger shores. — 1615

noun1

(no longer used) Instruction.

forms

instructed · instructing · instructeth · instructs · instructest

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