instruct.
To teach by giving instructions.
Meaning & usage
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.
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.
Where this word comes from
From Latin īnstrūctus, perfect passive participle of īnstruō (“I instruct; I arrange, furnish, or provide”).
Instruction.
Where this word comes from
From Latin īnstrūctus, perfect passive participle of īnstruō (“I instruct; I arrange, furnish, or provide”).
Arranged; furnished; provided.
Instructed; taught; enlightened.
Where this word comes from
From Latin īnstrūctus, perfect passive participle of īnstruō (“I instruct; I arrange, furnish, or provide”).
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