instruct
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instruct
- /ɪnˈstɹʌkt/ UK, US
- /ɪnˈstɹakt/ Australia
Rhymes with -ʌkt
Where it comes from
From Latin īnstrūctus, perfect passive participle of īnstruō (“I instruct; I arrange, furnish, or provide”).
verb instructs · instructing · instructed
- To teach by giving instructions. Listen carefully when someone instructs you how to assemble the furniture.
- To tell (someone) what they must or should do. Usage note: "instruct" is less forceful than "order", but weightier than "advise"
- 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.
noun instructs
- Instruction.
adjective
- Arranged; furnished; provided. For he had neither ship, instruct with oares, Nor men to fetch him from those stranger shores.
- 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?
