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To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching. [R.] "As ye are preached." Southey.

Any commandment, instruction, or order intended as an authoritative rule of action; esp., a command respecting moral conduct; an injunction; a rule. For precept must be upon precept. Isa. xxviii. 10. No arts are without their precepts. Dryden.

ommands, or makes rules; specifically, the master or principal of a school; a teacher; an instructor.

To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to post; to coach; as, to prime a witness; the boys are primed for mischief. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

ce, containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of elementary religious instruction. The primer, or office of the Blessed Virgin. Bp. Stillingfleet.

er in a university, college, or other seminary, whose business it is to read lectures, or instruct students, in a particular branch of learning; as a professor of theology, of botany, of mathematics, or of political economy.

Of, pertaining to, or conveying, preliminary instruction; introductory to any art or science; instructing beforehand.

The preliminary learning connected with any art or science; preparatory instruction.

Public interpretation of Scripture; preaching; exhortation or instruction.

To give instruction in religious matters; to interpret or explain Scripture or religious subjects; to preach; to exhort; to expound. Ezek. xxxvii. 7.

One inspired or instructed by God to speak in his name, or announce future events, as, Moses, Elijah, etc.

A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor. Too far in years to be a pupil now. Shak. Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils. L'Estrange.

To instruct in or by a quiz. See Quiz, n., 4. [U.S.] Quizzing glass, a small eyeglass.

Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned. A poet . . . well read in Longinus. Addison.

To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring. He wants a father to protect his youth, And rear him up to virtue. Southern.

The rehearsal of a lesson by pupils before their instructor.

To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.

eglected, esp. in missions and retreats, and are forbidden by their rule to engage in the instruction of youth.

A diplomatic agent's note asking for instructions from his government concerning a particular matter or point.

- Reform school, a school established by a state or city government, for the confinement, instruction, and reformation of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of idle, vicious, and vagrant habits. [U. S.]