instruct

IPA: ɪnstrˈʌkt

(transitive) To teach by giving instructions.
(transitive) To tell (someone) what they must or should do.
(transitive) 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.

Examples of "instruct" in Sentences

So, this book does not really set out to instruct, which is a great disappointment.
The new FDA labels instruct physicians to screen patients for kidney disease before administering the agents.
Precautions in the current labels instruct users to wash their hands after using the product and to cover the treated skin with clothing.
In the year of this mémoire, the master dyers of Lyon petitioned to have Gonin instruct them, as he had taught the dyers of Rouen some years earlier.
The motive to the moral is not love, but knowledge; to instruct is to make better; the philosopher is also the virtuous man, and only the philosopher can practice true virtue; the ignorant man is also immoral.
Say as mysteriously as you can that parties you are forbidden to name instruct you to treat with M. Savarin, and offer him the terms I have specified, the thirty thousand francs paid to him in advance the moment he signs the simple memorandum of agreement.