Instructio, Ver bale, Traianus ad Plinium. A setting in aray or order: a teaching or instructing.Instructio exercitus.Cic.A setting of an army in aray.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
in-structĭo, ōnis, f., a constructing, erecting, building.I.Lit.: novi balinei, Trajan. ad Plin. Ep. 10, 35: tubulorum in cloacas, i. e.
a sinking into
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insertion
, Vitr. 5, 9.— B.Transf., an arranging, planting, setting in array: signorum, Cic. Caec. 15, 43; cf. Front. Strat. 2, 3, 4: militum, Auct. Her. 3, 10, 18.—In plur., Amm. 28, 1. —II.Trop., instruction (syn.: doctrina, institutio, disciplina): futuri temporis pro instructione (al. per structionem), Arn. 5, 167.