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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
instruct .
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Examples
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“But we,” answered the divine, “live under a better dispensation, which instructeth us to return good for evil, and to pray for those who despitefully use us and persecute us.”
Old Mortality 2004
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And, in a word, she instructeth us to do nothing of any considerable importance, but in a full maturity and ripeness, 23.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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And, in a word, she instructeth us to do nothing of any considerable importance, but in a full maturity and ripeness, 23.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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For as the Image of each Action stirreth and instructeth the minde, so the loftie Image of such woorthies, moste enflameth the minde with desire to bee woorthie: and enformes with counsaile how to bee woorthie.
Defence of Poesie 1992
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Scripture abundantly instructeth us in: There is no power in men by nature whereby they are of themselves, -- upon the mere proposal of their duty in spiritual obedience, and exhortations from the word of
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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Him he instructeth them to pray for of the Father, as that which is needful for them, as bread for children, Luke xi.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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It is, therefore, to no purpose for me here to go over again the nature of this relation between Christ and the church, — wherein really and truly it doth consist; what it is the Scripture instructeth us in thereby; what is that love, care, and tenderness of
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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And let him that is instructed in the word communicate to him that instructeth him, in all good things.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them in what they are to learn.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and instructeth us more than the fowls of the air.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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