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instructory en · ADJ

Etymology

From instruct + -ory.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of or relating to instruction; instructive; educational.
   • Do you not think that the best thing the Federal Government could do would be to confine its efforts to an investigation; that any bureau it might establish having to do with this question should operate in an advisory or educational capacity, making it purely instructory, and leave the more stringent applications and regulations of those things to local authorities? 1902, Pure Food Legislation: Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of House of Representatives, page 55:
   • He rememberd Kathy was not going to get into touch contact behind him during the drills as she had more important instructor-y things to do instead. 2013, Jeff Bauer, Wakulla Bones:
   • A power instructory; to go and teach all nations. 1821, Ralph Erskine, The Sermons, and Other Practical Works - Volume 7, page 433:
   • Eventually we all bumped into each other and when the log jam started to give people the jitters our instructor pointed to a slender crack in the floor, the size of a letter box, and said, in that casual instructory way such people have: "Right team, we can only reach the next section by dropping down through this hole." 2012, Richard Maun, My Boss Is a Bastard: Overcoming the boss from hell, page 61:
   • Reports, tool kits and instructory booklets have been created to advice^([sic]) practitioners on how to implement successful LED strategies. 2017, Lorena Gazzotti, “Local Governance, Civil Society and Migrants’ Support to Local Development: Perspectives from Morocco”, in Thomas Lacroix, Amandine Desille, editors, International Migrations and Local Governance, page 81:

instructory en · NOUN

Etymology

From instruct + -ory.

Meanings

1. (dated) Instruction; curriculum.
   • In their opinion, based on their recent experience, this type of teacher in-service training program has supplied an educational medium desperately overdue in the retraining and updating of social science instructory. 1965, California Council for the Social Studies Review, volumes 5–8, page 15:
   • Your vict'ries won—your revolutions ended—Your constitution newly made—and mended—Your fund of wit—your intellectual riches—Plans in the closet—in the senate speeches—Will wake this age of heroes, wits, and sages, The first instructory to the latest ages! 1791, The American museum or universal magazine, page 38:

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