Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 53
Instant (adv.) 立即，馬上 Instantly. [Poetic]
Instant he flew with hospitable haste. -- Pope.
Instant (n.) 頃刻，一剎那 [S1] A point in time; a moment; a portion of time too short to be estimated; also, any particular moment ; as, the situation may change in an instant.
There is scarce an instant between their flourishing and their not being. -- Hooker.
Instant (n.) A day of the present or current month; as, the sixth instant; -- an elliptical expression equivalent to the sixth of the month instant, i. e., the current month. See Instant, a., 3.
Syn: Moment; flash; second.
Instant (a.) 立即的，即刻的；緊迫的，迫切的；迫在眉睫的；（食品）速食的；即溶的 Occurring with no delay; "relief was instantaneous"; "instant gratification" [syn: instantaneous, instant(a)].
Instant (a.) In or of the present month; "your letter of the 10th inst" [syn: instant, inst].
Instant (a.) Demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous" -- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need" [syn: clamant, crying, exigent, insistent, instant].
Instant (n.) A very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash" [syn: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York minute].
Instant (n.) A particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party began" [syn: moment, minute, second, instant].
Instantaneity (n.) 立即；瞬時性 Quality of being instantaneous. -- Shenstone.
Instantaneous (a.) [Z] 瞬間的，即時的；猝然的，猝發的 Done or occurring in an instant, or without any perceptible duration of time; as, the passage of electricity appears to be instantaneous.
His reason saw With instantaneous view, the truth of things. -- Thomson.
Instantaneous (a.) At or during a given instant; as, instantaneous acceleration, velocity, etc.
{Instantaneous center of rotation} (Kinematics), In a plane or in a plane figure which has motions both of translation and of rotation in the plane, is the point which for the instant is at rest.
{Instantaneous axis of rotation} (Kinematics), In a body which has motions both of translation and rotation, is a line, which is supposed to be rigidly united with the body, and which for the instant is at rest. The motion of the body is for the instant simply that of rotation about the instantaneous axis. -- {In`stan*ta"ne*ous*ly}, adv. -- {In`stan*ta"ne*ous*ness}, n.
Instantaneous (a.) Occurring with no delay; "relief was instantaneous"; "instant gratification" [syn: {instantaneous}, {instant(a)}].
Instanter (adv.) 即刻，馬上 Immediately; instantly; at once; as, he left instanter.
Instanter, () Immediately; presently. This term, it is said, means that the act to which it applies, shall be done within twenty-four hours but a doubt has been suggested by whom is the account of the hours to be kept, and whether the term instanter as applied to the subject-matter may not be more properly taken to mean "before, the rising of the court," when the act is to be done in court; or, "before the shutting of the office the same night," when the act is to be done there. 1 Taunt. R. 343; 6 East, R. 587, n. e; Tidd's Pr. 3d ed. 508, n.; 3 Chit. Pr. 112. Vide, 3 Burr. 1809; Co. Litt. 157; Styles' Register, 452.
Instantly (adv.) 立即地，即刻地，馬上地 Without the least delay or interval; at once; immediately. -- Macaulay.
Instantly (adv.) With urgency or importunity; earnestly; pressingly. "They besought him instantly." -- Luke vii. 4.
Syn: Directly; immediately; at once. See {Directly}.
Instantly (adv.) Without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening; "he answered immediately"; "found an answer straightaway"; "an official accused of dishonesty should be suspended forthwith"; "Come here now!" [syn: {immediately}, {instantly}, {straightaway}, {straight off}, {directly}, {now}, {right away}, {at once}, {forthwith}, {like a shot}].
Instantly (adv.) Without any delay; "he was killed outright" [syn: {instantaneously}, {outright}, {instantly}, {in a flash}].
Instar (n.) 蛻變期的昆蟲；（昆蟲的）蛻期 A postembryonic stage of life of an arthropod, especially an insect, between two successive molts; also, the arthropod when in that stage of life.
Instar (v. t.) 將……鑲上星星（或星狀物） To stud as with stars. [R.] "A golden throne instarred with gems." -- J. Barlow.
Instar (n.) An insect or other arthropod between molts.
Instar, () Likeness; resemblance; equivalent as, instar dentium, like teeth; instar omnium, equivalent to all.
Instated (imp. & p. p.) of Instate.
Instating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Instate.
Instate (v. t.) To set, place, or establish, as in a rank, office, or condition; to install; to invest; as, to instate a person in greatness or in favor. -- Shak.
Instaurated (imp. & p. p.) of Instaurate.
Instaurating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Instaurate.
Instaurate (v. t.) To renew or renovate. [R.]
Instauration (n.) 【古】恢復，建立，復興 ，復舊，設立 Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance.
Some great catastrophe or . . . instauration. -- T. Burnet.
Instauration (n.) The act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new; "she looked forward to her initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new scientific society" [syn: {initiation}, {founding}, {foundation}, {institution}, {origination}, {creation}, {innovation}, {introduction}, {instauration}].
Instaurator (n.) One who renews or restores to a former condition. [R.] -- Dr. H. More.
Instaure (v. t.) To renew or renovate; to instaurate. [Obs.] -- Marston.
Instead (adv.) 改為，抵作，更換，替代 In the place or room; -- usually followed by of.
Let thistles grow of wheat. -- Job xxxi. 40.
Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab. -- 2 Sam. xvii. 25.
Instead (adv.) Equivalent; equal to; -- usually with of. [R.]
This very consideration to a wise man is instead of a thousand arguments, to satisfy him, that in those times no such thing was believed. -- Tillotson.
Instead (adv.) In place of, or as an alternative to; "Felix became a herpetologist instead"; "alternatively we could buy a used car" [syn: {alternatively}, {instead}, {or else}].
Instead (adv.) On the contrary; "rather than disappoint the children, he did two quick tricks before he left"; "he didn't call; rather (or instead), he wrote her a letter"; "used English terms instead of Latin ones" [syn: {rather}, {instead}].
Insteeped (imp. & p. p.) of Insteep.
Insteeping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Insteep.
Insteep (v. t.) To steep or soak; to drench. [R.] "In gore he lay insteeped." -- Shak.
Compare: Drench
Drench (v. t.) 使濕透，浸濕 [H] [（+to/ with）]；給（牲口）灌藥 Wet thoroughly; soak.
‘I fell in the stream and got drenched.’
Drench (v. t.) Cover (something) liberally or thoroughly.
‘Cool patios drenched in flowers.’
Drench (v. t.) Forcibly administer a drug in liquid form orally to (an animal).
[As noun drenching ]‘Three-times-a-year drenching for calves.’
Drench (n.) 濕透，浸；滂沱大雨；浸液 A dose of medicine administered to an animal.
‘A worming drench.’
Drench (n.) [Archaic ] A draft of a medicinal or poisonous liquid.
Instep (n.) 腳背；鞋背 The arched middle portion of the human foot next in front of the ankle joint.
Instep (n.) The part of a shoe, boot, or stocking covering the instep [1].
Instep (n.) That part of the hind leg of the horse and allied animals, between the hock, or ham, and the pastern joint.
Instep (n.) The arch of the foot.
Instep (n.) The part of a shoe or stocking that covers the arch of the foot.
Instigated (imp. & p. p.) of Instigate.
Instigating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Instigate.
Instigate (v. t.) 唆使；慫恿；煽動，挑動 To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite; -- used chiefly with reference to evil actions; as to instigate one to a crime.
He hath only instigated his blackest agents to the very extent of their malignity. -- Bp. Warburton.
Syn: To stimulate; urge; spur; provoke; tempt; incite; impel; encourage; animate.
Instigate (v.) Provoke or stir up; "incite a riot"; "set off great unrest among the people" [syn: incite, instigate, set off, stir up].
Instigate (v.) Serve as the inciting cause of; "She prompted me to call my relatives" [syn: prompt, inspire, instigate].
Instigatingly (adv.) 誘惑人地；迷人地 Incitingly; temptingly.
Instigation (n.) 煽動；教唆 The act of instigating, or the state of being instigated; incitement; esp. to evil or wickedness.
The baseness and villainy that . . . the instigation of the devil could bring the sons of men to. -- South.
Instigation (n.) The verbal act of urging on [syn: abetment, abettal, instigation].
Instigation (n.) Deliberate and intentional triggering (of trouble or discord) [syn: fomentation, instigation].
Instigation, () The act by which one incites another to do something, as to injure a third person, or to commit some crime or misdemeanor, to commence a suit or to prosecute a criminal. Vide Accomplice.
Instigator (n.) 教唆者；煽動者 One who instigates or incites. -- Burke.
Syn: inciter, instigant.
Compare: Inciter
Inciter (n.) Someone who deliberately foments trouble.
Compare: Instigant
Instigant (n.) Someone who deliberately foments trouble.
Instigator (n.) Someone who deliberately foments trouble; "she was the instigator of their quarrel" [syn: instigator, provoker, inciter, instigant, firebrand].
Instigator (n.) A person who initiates a course of action [syn: instigator, initiator].
Instilled (imp. & p. p.) of Instill.
Instilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Instill.
Instill (v. t.) 徐徐滴入 [（+into）]；逐漸灌輸；徐徐地教導 [（+in/ into）] To drop in; to pour in drop by drop.
That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. -- Byron.
Instill (v. t.) Specifically: To infuse (knowledge or attitudes) into the mind of another, slowly or gradually; to impart gradually; to cause to be imbibed.
How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. -- Milton.
Syn: To infuse; impart; inspire; implant; inculcate; insinuate.
Instill (v.) Impart gradually; "Her presence instilled faith into the children"; "transfuse love of music into the students" [syn: instill, transfuse].
Instill (v.) Enter drop by drop; "instill medication into my eye" [syn: instill, instil].
Instill (v.) Produce or try to produce a vivid impression of; "Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us" [syn: impress, ingrain, instill].
Instill (v.) Teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; "inculcate values into the young generation" [syn:
inculcate, instill, infuse].
Instill (v.) Fill, as with a certain quality; "The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide" [syn: impregnate, infuse, instill, tincture].
Instillation (n.) 慢慢灌輸；滴注 The act of instilling; also, that which is instilled. -- Johnson.
Instillation (n.) The introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop [syn: instillation, instillment, instilment].
Instillation (n.) A liquid that is instilled drop by drop.
Instilllator (n.) 滴管；滴注器 An instiller. [R.]
Compare: Instiller
Instiller (n.) (pl. - ers) One who instills.
Instilllatory (a.) Belonging to instillation. [R.]
Instiller (n.) One who instills. -- Skelton.
Instillment (n.) The act of instilling; also, that which is instilled. [Written also instilment.]
Instimulate (v. t.) Not to stimulate; to soothe; to quiet. [Obs.] -- Cheyne.
Instimulate (v. t.) To stimulate; to excite. [Obs.] -- Cockeram.
Instimulation (n.) Stimulation.
Instinct (a.) Urged or stimulated from within; naturally moved or impelled; imbued; animated; alive; quick; as, birds instinct with life.
The chariot of paternal deity . . . Itself instinct with spirit, but convoyed By four cherubic shapes. -- Milton.
A noble performance, instinct with sound principle. -- Brougham.
Instinct (n.) [C] [U] 本能；天性 [（+to-v）]；直覺 Natural inward impulse; unconscious, involuntary, or unreasoning prompting to any mode of action, whether bodily, or mental, without a distinct apprehension of the end or object to be accomplished.
An instinct is a propensity prior to experience, and independent of instructions. -- Paley.
An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads. -- Whately.
An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust Ensuing dangers. -- Shak.
Instinct (n.) (Zool.) Specif., the natural, unreasoning, impulse by which an animal is guided to the performance of any action, without of improvement in the method.
The resemblance between what originally was a habit, and an instinct becomes so close as not to be distinguished. -- Darwin.
Instinct (n.) A natural aptitude or knack; a predilection; as, an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct.
Instinct (v. t.) To impress, as an animating power, or instinct. [Obs.] -- Bentley.
Instinct (a.) (Followed by `with') Deeply filled or permeated; "imbued with the spirit of the Reformation"; "words instinct with love"; "it is replete with misery" [syn: instinct(p), replete(p)].
Instinct (n.) Inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli; "the spawning instinct in salmon"; "altruistic instincts in social animals" [syn: instinct, inherent aptitude].
Instinction (n.) [C] [U] 本能；天性 [（+to-v）]；直覺 Instinct; incitement; inspiration. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Elyot.
Instinctive (a.) （出於）本能的；（出於）天性的；（來自）直覺的 Of or pertaining to instinct; derived from, or prompted by, instinct; of the nature of instinct; determined by natural impulse or propensity; acting or produced without reasoning, deliberation, instruction, or experience; spontaneous. "Instinctive motion." -- Milton. "Instinctive dread." -- Cowper.
With taste instinctive give Each grace appropriate. -- Mason.
Have we had instinctive intimations of the death of some absent friends? -- Bp. Hall.
Note: The terms instinctive belief, instinctive judgment, instinctive cognition, are expressions not ill adapted to characterize a belief, judgment, or cognition, which, as the result of no anterior consciousness, is, like the products of animal instinct, the intelligent effect of (as far as we are concerned) an unknown cause. -- Sir H. Hamilton.
Syn: Natural; voluntary; spontaneous; original; innate; inherent; automatic.
Instinctive (a.) Unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct; "a cat's natural aversion to water"; "offering to help was as instinctive as breathing" [syn: natural, instinctive].
Instinctively (adv.) （出於）本能地；憑直覺 In an instinctive manner; by force of instinct; by natural impulse.
Instinctively (adv.) As a matter of instinct; "he instinctively grabbed the knife".
Instinctivity (n.) The quality of being instinctive, or prompted by instinct. [R.] -- Coleridge.
Instipulate (a.) See Exstipulate.
Institute (p. a.) Established; organized; founded. [Obs.]
They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and institute, very few to suffice. -- Robynson (More's Utopia).
Instituted (imp. & p. p.) of Institute.
Instituting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Institute.
Institute (v. t.) 創立；設立；制定；開始；著手；使就職 To set up; to establish; to ordain; as, to institute laws, rules, etc.
Institute (v. t.) To originate and establish; to found; to organize; as, to institute a court, or a society.
Whenever any from of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government. -- Jefferson (Decl. of Indep. ).
Institute (v. t.) To nominate; to appoint. [Obs.]
We institute your Grace To be our regent in these parts of France. -- Shak.
Institute (v. t.) To begin; to commence; to set on foot; as, to institute an inquiry; to institute a suit.
And haply institute A course of learning and ingenious studies. -- Shak.
Institute (v. t.) To ground or establish in principles and rudiments; to educate; to instruct. [Obs.]
If children were early instituted, knowledge would insensibly insinuate itself. -- Dr. H. More.
Institute (v. t.) (Eccl. Law) To
invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls. --
Blackstone.
Syn: To originate; begin; commence; establish; found; erect; organize;
appoint; ordain.
Institute (n.) [C] 學會，學社，協會；會館；（專科性的）學校，學院，大學；研究所；【美】（教師等的）訓練班；講習會 The act of instituting; institution. [Obs.] "Water sanctified by Christ's institute." -- Milton.
Institute (n.) That which is instituted, established, or fixed, as a law, habit, or custom. -- Glover.
Institute (n.) Hence: An elementary and necessary principle; a precept, maxim, or rule, recognized as established and authoritative; usually in the plural, a collection of such principles and precepts; esp., a comprehensive summary of legal principles and decisions; as, the Institutes of Justinian; Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England. Cf. Digest, n.
They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy. -- Burke.
To make the Stoics' institutes thy own. -- Dryden.
Institute (n.) An institution; a society established for the promotion of learning, art, science, etc.; a college; as, the Institute of Technology; also, a building owned or occupied by such an institute; as, the Cooper Institute.
Institute (n.) (Scots Law) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation. -- Tomlins.
Institutes of medicine, Theoretical medicine; that department of medical science which attempts to account philosophically for the various phenomena of health as well as of disease; physiology applied to the practice of medicine. -- Dunglison.
Institute (n.) An association organized to promote art or science or education.
Institute (v.) Set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new department" [syn: {establish}, {found}, {plant}, {constitute}, {institute}].
Institute (v.) Advance or set forth in court; "bring charges", "institute proceedings" [syn: {institute}, {bring}].
Institute, () Scotch law. The person first called in the tailzie; the rest, or the heirs of tailzie, are called substitutes. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. 3, 8, 8. See Tailzie, Heir of; Substitutes.
Institute, () In the civil law, an institute is one who is appointed heir by testament, and is required to give the estate devised to another person, who is called the substitute.
Institutes, () The principles or first elements of jurisprudence.
Institutes, () Many books have borne the title of Institutes. Among the most celebrated in the common law, are the Institutes of Lord Coke, which, however, on account of the want of arrangement and the diffusion with which his books are written, bear but little the character of Institutes; in the, civil law the most generally known are those of Caius, Justinian, and Theophilus.
Institutes, () The Institutes of Caius are an abridgment of the Roman law, composed by the celebrated lawyer Caius or Gaius, who lived during th e reign of Marcus Aurelius.
Institutes, () The Institutes of Justinian, so called, because they are, as it were, masters and instructors to the. ignorant, and show an easy way to the obtaining of the knowledge of the law, are an abridgment of the Code and of the Digest, composed by order of that emperor: his intention in this composition was to give a summary knowledge of the law to those persons not versed in it, and particularly to merchants. The lawyers employed to make this book, were Tribonian, Theophilus, and Dorotheus. The work was first published in the year 533, and received the sanction of statute law, by order of the emperor. The Institutes of Justinian are divided into four books: each book is divided into two titles, and each title into parts. The first part is called principium, because it is the commencement of the title; those which follow are numbered and called paragraphs. The work treats of the rights of persons, of things, and of actions. The first book treats of persons; the second, third, and the first five titles of the fourth book, of things; and the remainder of the fourth book, of actions. This work has been much admired on account of its order and Scientific arrangement, which presents, at a single glance, the whole jurisprudence of the Romans. It is too little known and studied. The late Judge Cooper, of Pennsylvania, published an edition with valuable notes.
Institutes, () The Institutes of Theophilus are a paraphrase of those of Justinian, composed in Greek, by a lawyer of that name, by order of the emperor Phocas. Vide 1 Kent, Com. 538; Profession d'Avocat tom. ii. n. 536, page 95; Introd.
Instituter (n.) 創立者；（美國基督教聖公會之）主持任命聖職之主教或其代理人 An institutor. [R.]
Institution (n.) 制度，習俗 [C]；公共團體，機構；公共團體的建築物 [C]；建立，設立，制定 [U] The act or process of instituting; as: Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school.
The institution of God's law is described as being established by solemn injunction. -- Hooker.
Institution (n.) Instruction; education. [Obs.] -- Bentley.
Institution (n.) (Eccl. Law) The act or ceremony of investing a clergyman with the spiritual part of a benefice, by which the care of souls is committed to his charge. -- Blackstone.
Institution (n.) That which instituted or established; as:
Institution (n.) Established order, method, or custom; enactment; ordinance; permanent form of law or polity.
The nature of our people, Our city's institutions. -- Shak.
Institution (n.) An established or organized society or corporation; an establishment, especially of a public character, or affecting a community; a foundation; as, a literary institution; a charitable institution; also, a building or the buildings occupied or used by such organization; as, the Smithsonian Institution.
Institution (n.) Anything forming a characteristic and persistent feature in social or national life or habits.
We ordered a lunch (the most delightful of English institutions, next to dinner) to be ready against our return. -- Hawthorne.
Institution (n.) That which institutes or instructs; a textbook; a system of elements or rules; an institute. [Obs.]
There is another manuscript, of above three hundred years old, . . . being an institution of physic. -- Evelyn.
Institution (n.) An organization founded and united for a specific purpose [syn: {institution}, {establishment}].
Institution (n.) An establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated.
Institution (n.) A custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society; "the institution of marriage"; "the institution of slavery"; "he had become an institution in the theater".
Institution (n.) The act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new; "she looked forward to her initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new scientific society" [syn: {initiation}, {founding}, {foundation}, {institution}, {origination}, {creation}, {innovation}, {introduction}, {instauration}].
Institution (n.) A hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person [syn: {mental hospital}, {psychiatric hospital}, {mental institution}, {institution}, {mental home}, {insane asylum}, {asylum}].
Institution (n.) Eccl. law. The act by which the ordinary commits the cure of souls to a person presented to a benefice.
Institution (n.) Political law. That which has been established and settled by law for the public good; as, the American institutions guaranty to the citizens all privileges and immunities essential to freedom.
Institution, () Practice. The commencement of an action; as, A B has instituted a suit against C D, to recover damages for a trespass.
Institutional (a.) 制度的；公共團體的；學會的；習慣的 Pertaining to, or treating of, institutions; as, institutional legends.
Institutional writers as Rousseau. -- J. S. Mill.
Institutional (a.) Instituted by authority.
Institutional (a.) Elementary; rudimental.
Institutional (a.) Relating to or constituting or involving an institution; "institutional policy".
Institutional (a.) Organized as or forming an institution; "institutional religion" [ant: noninstitutional].
Institutionary (a.) 學會的；設立的；授聖職的 Relating to an institution, or institutions.
Institutionary (a.) Containing the first principles or doctrines; elemental; rudimentary.
Institutist (n.) A writer or compiler of, or a commentator on, institutes. [R.] -- Harvey.
Institutist (In British English) (n.) (Obsolete) A person who, in writing an abstract or an introductory text, condenses a subject to its main elements.
Institutive (a.) 有關創設的；成例的 Tending or intended to institute; having the power to establish. -- Barrow.
Institutive (a.) Established; depending on, or characterized by, institution or order. "Institutive decency." -- Milton.
Institutively (adv.) In conformity with an institution. -- Harrington.
Institutor (n.) 創立者；（美國基督教聖公會之）主持任命聖職之主教或其代理人 One who institutes, founds, ordains, or establishes.
Institutor (n.) One who educates; an instructor. [Obs.] -- Walker.
Institutor (n.) (Episcopal Church) A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.
Compare: Instep
Instep (n.) [Formerly also instop, instup.] The arched middle portion of the human foot next in front of the ankle joint.
Instep (n.) The part of a shoe, boot, or stocking covering the instep [1].
Instep (n.) That part of the hind leg of the horse and allied animals, between the hock, or ham, and the pastern joint.
Instop (v. t.) To stop; to close; to make fast; as, to instop the seams. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Instore (v. t.) To store up; to inclose; to contain. [Obs.] -- Wyclif.
Instratified (a.) Interstratified.
Instruct (a.) Arranged; furnished; provided. [Obs.] "He had neither ship instruct with oars, nor men." -- Chapman.
Instruct (a.) Instructed; taught; enlightened. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Instructed (imp. & p. p.) of Instruct.
Instructing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Instruct.
Instruct (v. t.) 指示，命令，吩咐 [O2]；教授；訓練；指導 [（+in）]；通知，告知 [H] [O5] To put in order; to form; to prepare. [Obs.]
They speak to the merits of a cause, after the roctor has prepared and instructed the same for ahearing.-- Ayliffe.
Instruct (v. t.) To form by communication of knowledge; to inform the mind of; to impart knowledge or information to; to enlighten; to teach; to discipline.
Schoolmasters will I keep within my house, Fit to instruct her youth. -- Shak.
Instruct (v. t.) To furnish with directions; to advise; to direct; to command; as, the judge instructs the jury.
She, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger. -- Matt. xiv. 8.
Take her in; instruct her what she has to do. -- Shak.
Syn: To teach; educate; inform; train; discipline; indoctrinate; direct; enjoin.
Instruct (v.) Impart skills or knowledge to; "I taught them French"; "He instructed me in building a boat" [syn: teach, learn, instruct].
Instruct (v.) Give instructions or directions for some task; "She instructed the students to work on their pronunciation".
Instruct (v.) Make aware of; "Have the students been apprised of the tuition hike?" [syn: instruct, apprise, apprize].
Instructor (n.) [Written also instructer.] One who instructs; one who imparts knowledge to another; a teacher.
Instructor (n.) [C] 教師；教練；指導者；【美】大學講師 A person whose occupation is teaching [syn: teacher, instructor].
Instructer (n.) See Instructor.
Instructible (a.) Capable of being instructed; teachable; docible. -- Bacon.
Compare: Docible
Docible (a.) Easily taught or managed: Teachable.