INSTRUC'TION, noun [Latin instructio.] 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. Proverbs 8:10. 3. Direction; order; command; mandate. The minister received instructions from his sovereign to demand a categorical answer.
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