instruct

1
To teach by giving instructions.
Listen carefully when someone instructs you how to assemble the furniture.
Similar
educate guide
2
To tell (someone) what they must or should do.
Usage note: "instruct" is less forceful than "order", but weightier than "advise"
Similar
command direct order
3
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.
If you're not careful, I'm going to instruct a solicitor over this.

adj

1
Arranged; furnished; provided.
For he had neither ship, instruct with oares, Nor men to fetch him from those stranger shores.
2
Instructed; taught; enlightened.
Who ever by consulting at thy shrine Return’d the wiser, or the more instruct To flye or follow what concern’d him most, And run not sooner to his fatal snare?

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