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Teach

verb

(past & past part. taught; pres. part. teaching)

Impart skills or knowledge to. Synonyms: instruct, learn. "He instructed me in building a boat"

Accustom gradually to some action or attitude.

noun

An English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718). Synonyms: Blackbeard, Edward Teach, Edward Thatch, Thatch.

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"Teach" Quotes from Famous Books

... were right," he laughed; "this is terrible ambitious." The best of the blackberries plucked, Amber began a new campaign against mushrooms, and had frequent opportunities to rebuke his clumsiness in crumbling the prizes he uprooted. She knelt at his side to teach him, and once laid her deft ...

— The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes • Israel Zangwill

... device appears to be founded on the ancient popular legend that a husbandman who had stolen a bundle of thorns from a hedge was, in punishment of his theft, carried up to the moon. The legend reading Te Waltere docebo cur spinas phebo gero, 'I will teach you, Walter, why I carry thorns in the moon,' seems to be an enigmatical mode of expressing the maxim that honesty is the ...

— Moon Lore • Timothy Harley

... Mrs. Ben's tarts—she had forgotten everything but the story that was going on out there, out of her sight. It was so much—oh, how much it was like Blossom's story! When Blossom was three, Judith had given up, too. But not till then. She had kept on and on trying to teach the helpless little legs to walk. Father and mother and the boys had given up, but Judith had kept on. "She ...

— Judith Lynn - A Story of the Sea • Annie Hamilton Donnell

... delicately gay; And yonder belles, so'deck'd in thin array— Ah! rather see not what a decent pride Would teach a maiden modestly to hide; The dress so flimsy, the exposure such, "twould almost make a very wanton blush. E'en married dames, forgetting what is due To sacred ties, give half clad charms to view. What calls them forth to brave the daring glance, The public ...

— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan

... the grandmother; 'you will make him good and happy, and you must teach him to be patient, for I am afraid you will both want a great ...

— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. I) - or, The Clue of Life • Charlotte M. Yonge

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