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Definition of instructing : of Instruct

Synonyms:

consulting, encouraging, advising, prompting, recommending, guiding, conferring, directing, tipping off, advocating, counseling, informing, suggesting, cautioning, notifying, warning, briefing, admonishing, cueing

instilling, lecturing, coaching, edifying, inculcating, drilling, indoctrinating, imbuing, educating, teaching, enlightening, training, tutoring, schooling

Usage examples:

• I suppose the Duke has been communicating with them through underground channels and instructing them in regard to this frame- up. - "The Gray Phantom's Return", Herman Landon.
• When my reply was finished I sent it to M. Dandolo, instructing him to have five hundred copies printed. - "The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons", Jacques Casanova de Seingalt.
• Their most serious Hours they spend in mock Tryals, and instructing one another in cross Questions, to confound Witnesses; and all the Stratagems and Evasions that can be of Service, to elude the Charge that shall be made against them; or else in reading Lectures on some Branch or other of their Profession, the various Arts and Methods of Stealing, or the Glory, as well as Usefulness of invincible Impudence on all offensive and defensive Emergencies. - "An Enquiry into the Causes of the Frequent Executions at Tyburn (1725)", Bernard Mandeville Malvin R. Zirker.