instruct
suomi-englanti sanakirjainstruct englannista suomeksi
antaa tietoja
ohjata, neuvoa, opettaa
instruct englanniksi
To teach by giving instructions.
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(RQ:Shakespeare Measure for Measure)
{{quote-text|en|year=1682|author=Aphra Behn|title=The False Count|location=London|publisher=Jacob Tonson|section=act III, scene 2|page=33|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A27291.0001.001
1751, (w), ''(w),'' No. 156, 14(nbs)September, 1751, in Volume 5, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, p.(nbs)177,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004772607.0001.005
- (..) the design of tragedy is to instruct by moving the passions,
(RQ:Hawthorne Scarlet Letter) I should deem you a man sore sick, it may be, yet not so sick but that an instructed and watchful physician might well hope to cure you.
(RQ:Pirsig Zen)
To tell (someone) what they must or should do.
''Usage note'': "instruct" is less forceful than "order", but weightier than "advise"
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-1)
(RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair)
{{quote-book|en|year=1989|author=John Irving|title=A Prayer for Owen Meany|location=New York|publisher=Ballantine|year_published=1997|chapter=5|page=195|url=https://archive.org/details/prayerforowenmea00irvi_1
To give (one's own lawyer) legal instructions as to how they should act in relation to a particular issue; thereby formally appointing them as one's own legal representative in relation to it.
Arranged; furnished; provided.
(quote-book)’s (w)|location=London|publisher=Nathaniell Butter|section=Book 4, p. 62|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03515.0001.001
Instructed; taught; enlightened.
{{quote-text|en|year=1671|author=John Milton|title=Paradise Regained|location=London|publisher=John Starkey|section=Book 1, lines 438-441, p. 24|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50931.0001.001