instructed, ppl. a.
(ɪnˈstrʌktɪd)
[f. instruct v. + -ed1; taking the place of instruct ppl. a.]
1. Educated; taught; informed.
| 1552 Huloet, Instructed, catechisatus, instructus, ornatus..catechumenus. Instructed in good maners, moratus. 1553 Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 33 Magellanus sent with them .vii. men well instructed. 1611 Bible Ecclus. xxvi. 14 There is nothing so much worth, as a mind well instructed. 1671 Milton Samson 757 With more cautious and instructed skill. 1712 Steele Spect. No. 539 ¶1, I can dance very well.. I..never exert my instructed Charms till I find I have engaged a Pursuer. a 1871 Grote Eth. Fragm. iv. (1876) 77 As society becomes more instructed. |
† 2. Furnished, fitted out, equipped; drawn up in order, arrayed. Obs.
| 1552 [see 1]. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. x. 430 An Jnglis nauie to the number of xvj verie weil instructet schipis. 1613–16 W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. iv, Instructed swarmes Of men immayl'd. 1666 Dryden Ann. Mirab. clxiii, Instructed ships shall sail to quick commerce. |
Hence inˈstructedly adv.; inˈstructedness.
| 1628 Bp. Hall Old Relig. 116 A commendation of the well instructednesse of those people. 1873 Morley 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. |