Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-STI-TU'TION-A-RY, a.

Elemental; containing the first principles or doctrines. Brown.

IN'STI-TU-TIST, n.

A writer of institutes or elementary rules and instructions. Harvey.

IN'STI-TU-TIVE, a.

1. That establishes; having the power to establish. Barrow.
2. Established; depending on institution. Milton.

IN'STI-TU-TOR, n. [L.]

1. The person who establishes; one who enacts laws, rites and ceremonies, and enjoins the observance of them.
2. The person who founds an order, sect, society or scheme for the promotion of a public or social object.
3. An instructor; one who educates; as, an institutor of outh. Walker.

IN-STOP', v.t. [in and stop.]

To stop; to close; to make fast. [Little used.] Dryden.

IN-STRAT'I-FI-ED, a.

Stratified within something else. Journ. of Science.

IN-STRUCT', v.t. [L. instruo, instructum; in and struo, to set or to put on, to furnish; Fr. and It. instruire; Sp. instruir. The L. struo is contracted from struco or strugo. See Destroy.]

1. To teach; to inform the mind; to educate; to impart knowledge to one who was destitute of it. The first duty of parents is to instruct their children in the principles of religion and morality.
2. To direct; to enjoin; to persuade or admonish. She being before instructed by her mother, said, Give me here the head of John the Baptist in a charger. Math. xiv.
3. To direct or command; to furnish with orders. The president instructed his envoy to insist on the restitution of the property.
4. To inform; to advise or give notice to. On this question the court is not instructed.
5. To model; to form; to prepare. [Not used.] Ayliffe.

IN-STRUCT'ED, pp.

Taught; informed; trained up; educated.

IN-STRUCT'I-BLE, a.

Able to instruct. [Ill.] Bacon.

IN-STRUCT'ING, ppr.

Teaching; informing the mind; directing.

IN-STRUC'TION, n. [Fr. from L. instruction.]

1. The act of teaching or informing the understanding in that of which it was before ignorant; information.
2. Precepts conveying knowledge. Receive my instruction and not silver. Prov. viii.
3. Direction; order; command; mandate. The minister received instructions from his sovereign to demand a categorical answer.

IN-STRUCT'IVE, a. [Sp. instructivo; It. instruttivo; Fr. instructif.]

Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform. Affliction furnishes very instructive lessons.

IN-STRUCT'IVE-LY, adv.

So as to afford instruction. Pope.

IN-STRUCT'OR, n.

1. A teacher; a person who imparts knowledge to another by precept or information. 1 Cor. iv.
2. The preceptor of a school or seminary of learning; any president, professor or tutor, whose business is to teach languages, literature or the sciences; any professional man who teaches the principles of his profession.

IN-STRUCT'RESS, n.

A female who instructs; a preceptress; a tutoress.

IN'STRU-MENT, n. [Fr. from L. instrumentum, from instruo, to prepare; that which is prepared.]

1. A tool; that by which work is performed, or any thing is effected; as a knife, a hammer, a saw, a plow, &c. Swords, muskets and cannon are instruments of destruction. A telescope is an astronomical instrument.
2. That which is subservient to the execution of a plan or purpose, or to the production of any effect; means used or contributing to an effect; applicable to persons or things. Bad men are often instruments of ruin to others. The distribution of the Scriptures may be the instrument of a vastly extensive reformation in morals and religion.
3. An artificial machine or body constructed for yielding harmonious sounds; as an organ, a harpsichord, a violin, or flute, &c., which are called musical instruments, or instruments of music.
4. In law, a writing containing the terms of a contract, as a deed of conveyance, a grant, a patent, an indenture, &c.; in general, a writing by which some fact is recorded for evidence, or some right conveyed.
5. A person who acts for another, or is employed by another for a special purpose, and if the purpose is dishonorable, the term implies degradation or meanness.

IN-STRU-MENT'AL, a.

1. Conducive as an instrument or means to some end; contributing aid; serving to promote or effect an object; helpful. The press has been instrumental in enlarging the bounds of knowledge.
2. Pertaining to instruments; made by instruments; as instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music, which is made by the human voice.

IN-STRU-MENT-AL'I-TY, n.

Subordinate or auxiliary agency; agency of any thing as means to an end; as, the instrumentality of second causes.

IN-STRU-MENT'AL-LY, adv.

1. By way of an instrument; in the nature of an instrument; as means to an end. South.
2. With instruments of music.

IN-STRU-MENT'AL-NESS, n.

Usefulness; as of means to an end; instrumentality. Hammond.

IN-STYLE', v.t. [in and style.]

To call; to denominate. [Not used.] Crashaw.

IN-SUAV'I-TY, n. [L. insuavitas.]

Unpleasantness. Burton.

IN-SUB-JEC'TION, n.

State of disobedience to government.

IN-SUB-MIS'SION, n.

Defect of submission; disobedience.

IN-SUB-ORD'I-NATE, a.

Not submitting to authority.