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instruct

verb
/ɪnˈstɹʌkt/UK/ɪnˈstɹakt/

Etymology

From Latin īnstrūctus, perfect passive participle of īnstruō (“I instruct; I arrange, furnish, or provide”).

  1. derived from īnstrūctus

Definitions

  1. To teach by giving instructions.

    • Listen carefully when someone instructs you how to assemble the furniture.
    • Supply me with the habit and instruct me How I may formally in person bear me Like a true friar.
    • What a dishonour’s this, to me, to have so Dull a Father, that needs to be instructed in his Duty.

  2. 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.
    • What, shall a child instruct you what to do?

  3. To give (one's own lawyer) legal instructions as to how they should act in relation to a…

    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.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Instruction.

    2. Arranged

      Arranged; furnished; provided.

      • For he had neither ship, instruct with oares, Nor men to fetch him from those stranger shores.

    3. Instructed

      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?

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Derived

instructability, instructee, instructer, instructology, instructory, misinstruct, preinstruct, uninstructing

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at instruct. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at instruct. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at instruct

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA