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instruct

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1. instruct - Noun

2. instruct - Adjective

3. instruct - Verb

Meaning

Arranged; furnished; provided.

Instructed; taught; enlightened.

To put in order; to form; to prepare.

To form by communication of knowledge; to inform the mind of; to impart knowledge or information to; to enlighten; to teach; to discipline.

To furnish with directions; to advise; to direct; to command; as, the judge instructs the jury.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. Friedrich Nietzsche

I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it. Anne Hutchinson

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. Thomas Edison

Instruct a man, you instruct an individual. Instruct a woman, you instruct a nation. Moroccan Proverb

A child one does not instruct on return, one instructs him when going. Bantu Proverb

Send a man of sense on the embassy, and you need not instruct him. Portuguese Proverb

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