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instructed, ppl. a.|ɪnˈstrʌktɪd| [f. instruct v. + -ed1; taking the place of instruct ppl. a.] 1. Educated; taught; informed.
1552Huloet, Instructed, catechisatus, instructus, ornatus..catechumenus. Instructed in good maners, moratus. 1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 33 Magellanus sent with them .vii. men well instructed. 1611Bible Ecclus. xxvi. 14 There is nothing so much worth, as a mind well instructed. 1671Milton Samson 757 With more cautious and instructed skill. 1712Steele Spect. No. 539 ⁋1, I can dance very well.. I..never exert my instructed Charms till I find I have engaged a Pursuer. a1871Grote Eth. Fragm. iv. (1876) 77 As society becomes more instructed. †2. Furnished, fitted out, equipped; drawn up in order, arrayed. Obs.
1552[see 1]. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. x. 430 An Jnglis nauie to the number of xvj verie weil instructet schipis. 1613–16W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. iv, Instructed swarmes Of men immayl'd. 1666Dryden Ann. Mirab. clxiii, Instructed ships shall sail to quick commerce. Hence inˈstructedly adv.; inˈstructedness.
1628Bp. Hall Old Relig. 116 A commendation of the well instructednesse of those people. 1873Morley Struggle Nat. Educ. xii. 116 It would be a most substantial gain if our labouring class in England could all talk as articulately, as rationally, and as instructedly..as you may trust the labouring class in Scotland to do. |