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imparted; as: (a) Precept; information; teachings. (b) Direction; order; command. "If my instructions may be your guide." Shak.

Pertaining to, or promoting, instruction; educational.

Wrong or improper instruction.

e and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline. Apply thine heart unto instruction. Prov. xxiii. 12.

To bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.

The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.

to the colors, live at their homes, being summoned more or less frequently to report for instruction, drill, or maneuvers; and (3) one or more classes of soldiers organized largely for territorial defense, living at home and having only occasional periods of drill and instraction, who are variously called home reserve…

e mysteries of the Christian religion, in distinction from a catechumen, or one yet under instruction.

otten. -- Boarding school, a school in which pupils receive board and lodging as well as instruction.

An abridgment or concise statement of a client's case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at law. This word is applied also to a statement of the heads or points of a law argument. It was not without some reference to it that I perused many a brief. Sir J. Stephen.

in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession. "The business of instruction." Prescott.

or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain. Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. Prov. xxiii. 23. To buy again. See Againbuy. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- To buy off. (a) To influence to compliance; to cause to bend or yield by some consideration; as, to buy off conscience. (b) To detach…

To render capable; to enable; to qualify. By thih instruction we may be capaciated to observe those errors. Dryden.

The system of teaching law in which the instruction is primarily a historical and inductive study of leading or selected cases, with or without the use of textbooks for reference and collateral reading.

A form of instruction by means of questions answers.

One who is receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a Christian, and admitted to instruction preliminary to admission to full membership in the church.

Of or pertaining to catechumens; as, catechumenical instructions.

An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a judge to a jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy.

A miraculously given power, as of healing, speaking foreign languages without instruction, etc., attributed to some of the early Christians.

urch), a meeting of a class under the charge of a class leader, for counsel and relegious instruction.