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Instruct   /ɪnstrˈəkt/   Listen
Instruct

verb
(past & past part. instructed; pres. part. instructing)
1.
Impart skills or knowledge to.  Synonyms: learn, teach.  "He instructed me in building a boat"
2.
Give instructions or directions for some task.
3.
Make aware of.  Synonyms: apprise, apprize.



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... as a scared, frightened beast broke from the mob in hand, and went crashing through the undergrowth. "There's one all by herself to practice on." Dan's system of education, being founded on object-lessons, was mightily convincing; and for that trip, anyway, he had a very humble pupil to instruct in the "ways of telling the ...
— We of the Never-Never • Jeanie "Mrs. Aeneas" Gunn
... Pike was not in virtue of the supremacy of his personal authority, and that the ordeal of sacrilege was spared her by the clemency of Lucifer himself, who is supposed to appear in person at the Sanctum Regnum of Charleston and to instruct his chiefs, Deo volente or otherwise, every Friday, the supreme dogmatic director, who had made his home in Washington, having the gift of "instantaneous transportation," whensoever he thought fit to be ...
— Devil-Worship in France - or The Question of Lucifer • Arthur Edward Waite
... the one hand, and Ireland on the other. In both cases he alarmed the fears and wounded the pride of England; but when he proceeded from one illegality to another, when he began to exercise a dispensing power above the laws—to instruct the judges, to menace the parliament, and imprison the bishops—the nobility, the commons, and the army gradually combined against him, and at last invited over the Prince of Orange, as the most capable vindicator of their ...
— A Popular History of Ireland - From the earliest period to the emancipation of the Catholics • Thomas D'Arcy McGee
... for Ermengarde?" he said. "Sometimes I have thought of it, but your mother had a prejudice against school-life for girls, and Ermie does very well with Miss Nelson and the masters who come here to instruct her. Now here we are, ...
— The Children of Wilton Chase • Mrs. L. T. Meade
... does not know the trouble and patience that is required in order to get a juvenile dog to understand what its master means when he is endeavouring to instruct it. ...
— The Dog Crusoe and his Master • R.M. Ballantyne


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