Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IN-STRUC'TION
IN-STRUC'TION, n. [Fr. from L. instruction.]
- The act of teaching or informing the understanding in that of which it was before ignorant; information.
- Precepts conveying knowledge. Receive my instruction and not silver. Prov. viii.
- Direction; order; command; mandate. The minister received instructions from his sovereign to demand a categorical answer.
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