instruct
verb (used with object)
well-instructed
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a word derived from
instruct.
Example Sentences
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His own marriage, to a physician's daughter, was childless; about the only thing he notes about his wife Elizabeth is her fondness for an "excellent and well-instructed parrot".
From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2012
Then he listened with half-parted lips to his music as played by the well-instructed Sir Thomas.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only a well-instructed and coolheaded diver can be expected to repress the powerful instinct to hold his breath on making his way to the surface.
From Time Magazine Archive
Very frequently parents are themselves to blame for the slender dilettante style of playing which their well-instructed children present.
From Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression by James Francis Cooke
Shall, then, well-instructed old men be afraid of that which young men, and they not only ignorant, but mere peasants, despise?
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
