Instruo, instruis, instruxi, instructum, instrúere. To prepare: to set in order or aray: to arme: to instruct: to furnish wyth all things necessarie.Instruere accusarionem vel actionem, aut litem. Cicero. To prepare writings and al things necessarie for our proces. Instruere aciem. Cic.To set an army in or der of battaile.Armis instruit socios. Virgil. He armeth or furnisheth with armour.Cœnam. Mar. To serue or make the prouision of a supper.Calumniam instruere alicui. Vlp. To suborne or prepare a false accusation against one.Consilia. Ter. To prepare and set in order all his deuises & counsailes.Copias instruere. Cæs. To set his armie in aray.Dolis instructus. Vir. Furnished with false & subtil tales.Domum. Pla. To furnish an house with all things necessaryEpulas.Liu.To prouide a feast or banket.Instruendæ fraudi aliquanto intentior. Li. Somewhat busie to deuise how to deceiue.Hortos. Ci. To furnish his garden of pleasure with al thyngs necessarie.Insidias.Cic.To prepare things to intrap and deceiue.Insidias mihi instruens. Catul. Laying waite to intrappe or deceiue me.Iter ad bonam famam.Plin. iun.To prepare a way or trade to get a good name.Legiones.Plaut.To set his armie in aray.Instrueie locÛ insidijs.Liui.To set ambushments in a place.Mensas epulis. Oui. To furnish tables with dishes of meate.Nauigia. Colum. To esquippe and furnish ships with all abiliments.Opus instruitur.Ouid. Ornamenta alicui. Plau. Instruere discipulos lectione or ationum. Qui. To instruct his schollers in reading or ations.Arte instruere aliquem. Oui. To instruct one in any science.Cultibus instruere aliquem.Ouid.Scientia aliquem instruere. Quint. Instruere studiosos scientia alicuius rei. Quin. To teach such as be studious, the knowledge of any thing.Instruere Oratorem. Quine To instruct one to be an orator.Instruere ignorantiam alicuius.Plin. iun.Instruere aliquem secretis notis, Vide NOTA.To tell one priuy tostens.Mandatis aliquem instruere.Liu.To giue one instruction of messages to bee done by mouthe: to tel him what he shall doe or say.Iustruere ad omne officij munus.Cic.To teache how to vse himselfe in euery point of honest behauiour.Instrui consilijs idoneis ad negotium. Cice. To be furnished with fitte instructions for the purpose or matter.
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in -strŭo, xi (perf. sync. instruxti, Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 34), ctum, 3, v. a., to build in or into; to build,, erect, construct (class.). I.Lit.A. In gen.: contabulationem in parietes, Caes. B. C. 2, 9: tubulos in earum (cloacarum) parietibus, Vitr. 5, 9, 7: muros, Nep. Them. 6: aggerem, Tac. H. 2, 22.—B. In partic. 1.To set in order, draw up in battle array: legiones, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 66: aciem, Cic. Mur. 9, 22; id. Phil. 4, 5, 11: contra copias praesidia vestrosque exercitus, id. Cat. 2, 11init.—Absol.: ad instruendum spatium, Liv. 9, 37, 3; 10, 19, 15; 24, 48, 11: insidias in loco aliquo,
to lay an ambush
, id. Clu. 66, 190; cf.: quem insidiis instruendis locum?Liv. 6, 23, 6: acies circa vallum, id. 3, 22, 5: ad hunc modum aciem, Caes. B. C. 3, 88: postremo in plures ordines, Liv. 8, 8, 4: naves, Just. 5, 4, 1.—2.To prepare, make ready, furnish, provide, to equip, fit out (with necessaries): domum, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 5, 9: instruere et parare convivium omnibus rebus, id. ib. 2, 4, 27, 62: mensas, Verg. A. 3, 231; Ov. M. 8, 571: agrum,
to stock
,
furnish
, Liv. 6, 5, 5: hortos, Col. 11, 2, 25; Plin. Ep. 8, 18, 11: frumento et stipendio victorem, Just. 6, 6: et dotare filiam, Suet. Vesp. 14: mulieri aurum atque ornamenta, Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 35: instruit focum provincia, Juv. 5, 97: socios simul instruit armis, Verg. A. 8, 80: concubinas securibus peltisque, Suet. Ner. 44: Xerxes bellum per quinquennium instruxit, Just. 2, 10, 12; 8, 5, 2.—II.Trop.A. In gen., to procure, provide for, prepare for, furnish: accusationem, Cic. Clu. 6: causam, Plin. Ep. 10, 85: in instruendo (orationem) dissipatus,
in arranging
, Cic. Brut. 59, 216: se, to furnish, prepare one's self: ad judicium nondum se satis instruxerat, id. Verr. 2, 4, 19: neque spatium erat instruendi bellum, Just. 8, 5, 2. — B. In partic., to provide with information, to teach, instruct: (oratores) parum his artibus instructos vidimus, Cic. Brut. 59, 214: judicem notitiā rerum, Quint. 4, 2, 24: juvenes salubribus praeceptis, Petr. 140: aliquem scientiā alicujus rei, Quint. prooem. 23; cf. id. 1, 10, 5; 2, 4, 20; 2, 5, 1 al.— Absol., Just. praef. 4 (but in Cic. Cael. 30, 72, the true reading is instituimur).— 2.To plan, devise: magnas res hic agito in mentem instruere, Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 31: instruendae fraudi intentior, Liv. 23, 35, 14: insidias mihi, Cat. 18 (21), 7.—Hence, instructus, a, um, P. a., ordered, drawn up; furnished, provided with any thing. A.Lit.: exercitus ita stetit instructus, ut, etc., Liv. 4, 18: acies, Caes. B. G. 1, 48: domicilia rebus iis omnibus, quibus, etc., Cic. N. D. 2, 37, 95: instructa et exornata domus,
provided with necessaries
, id. Verr. 2, 2, 34, 84: instructae ornataeque naves, id. ib. 2, 5, 51, 133: instructae atque ornatae omnibus rebus copiae, id. de Imp. Pomp. 8: omnibus rebus instructum et paratum convivium, id. Verr. 2, 4, 27.— B.Trop.1.Arranged, prepared; instructed: jam instructa sunt mihi in corde consilia omnia, Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 7: res satis scite instructae et compositae, Cic. Leg. 1, 13, 39: ad permovendos animos instructi et parati, id. Or. 5: ad mortem contemnendam, id. Fin. 2, 17: ad dicendum instructissimus, id. de Or. 3, 8.—2.Instructed, versed in: in jure civili, Cic. de Or. 1, 58, 249: omnibus ingenuis artibus, id. ib. 1, 16, 73: a jure civili, ab historia instructior (v. ab), id. Brut. 43.— In a bad sense: accusatores instructi et subornati,
prepared
,
instructed
, Cic. Vatin. 1, 3: vitiis instructior, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 25.—Adv.: instructē, with great preparation; only comp.: ludos opulentius instructius facere, Liv. 1, 35, 7: instructius accusare, App. Mag. 34, p. 296.