Definition of "instruct" []

• To provide with knowledge, especially in a methodical way. See Synonyms at teach. (verb-transitive)
• To give orders to; direct. (verb-transitive)
• To serve as an instructor. (verb-intransitive)

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• "In the year of this mémoire, the master dyers of Lyon petitioned to have Gonin instruct them, as he had taught the dyers of Rouen some years earlier."
• "So, this book does not really set out to instruct, which is a great disappointment."
• "The motive to the moral is not love, but knowledge; to instruct is to make better; the philosopher is also the virtuous man, and only the philosopher can practice true virtue; the ignorant man is also immoral."