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, regimental officers, clothing. Regimental school, in the British army, a school for the instruction of the private soldiers of a regiment, and their children, in the rudimentary branches of education.

To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal. [R.] He has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his having seen her. Dickens.

to. What may else be remedy or cure To evils which our own misdeeds have wrought, He will instruct us. Milton.

A private instructor.

o communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction or agency).

ormerly worn by women when riding. (b) A kind of cloak with a hood. -- Riding master, an instructor in horsemanship. -- Riding rhyme (Pros.), the meter of five accents, with couplet rhyme; -- probably so called from the mounted pilgrims described in the Canterbury Tales. Dr. Guest. -- Riding school, a school or plac…

According to any rule of art; correctly. You with strict discipline instructed right. Roscommon.

To repeat; to rehearse; to recite; to pronounce; as, to say a lesson. Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated In what thou hadst to say Shak. After which shall be said or sung the following hymn. Bk. of Com. Prayer.

A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets. Disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. Acts xix. 9.

One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.

A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction.

Instruction in school; tuition; education in an institution of learning; act of teaching.

used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts to be disciplined, and instructed as mariners.

To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct. [R.] Francis.

to the rules or principles of science. It is easier to believe than to be scientifically instructed. Locke.

An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor. [Cant, American Colleges]

Educated by one's own efforts, without instruction, or without pecuniary assistance from others.

A group of students engaged, under the guidance of an instructor, in original research in a particular line of study, and in the exposition of the results by theses, lectures, etc.; -- called also seminary.

A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw. Broome.

ly, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of religious instruction and grounded on some text or passage of Scripture. This our life exempt from public haunts Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones and good in everything. Shak. His preaching much, but mo…