Instrumentum, huius instrumenti, n. g. Cice. An instrument: a toole: an ordinaunce of warre: vessel and all necessaries of housholde or husbandry. A deede or charter concernyng landes.Instrumentum ac suppellex.Cic.Instrumentum regium.Cicer.The kings furniture of houshold stuffe.Instrumentum venatorium. Plin. iu. Tooles and necessaries for hunting.Totius belli instrumentum & apparatus.Cic.The ordinãce, furniture and prouiston of the whole warre, as tentes, pauilions, &c. Instrumentum. Cice. A meane, aide or help to doe a thing.Artis instrumentum. Horat. A meane or helpe to attaine the arte.Instrumenta multa habet homo ad adipiscendam sapientiã. C. Man hath many meanes to help to attaine wisedome.Industriæ subsidia atque instrumenta virtutis in libidine audaciáque consumÊtur. Ci. Al the helpes of industry and meanes to attaine vertueishal be spent and bestowed, &c.Ad quorum intelli gentiam natura minus habent instrumÊti. Ci. To attaine the vnderstãding wherof, they baue lesse aide and helpe of nature.Quicquid habuit, quantumcunque fuit, illud totum habuit è diseiplina: instrumenta naturæ decrant Ci.Natutal meanes and helpes wanted.Quid tanto opus est instrumento in optimis artibus compa randis? Cicer.What neede we so great meanes of ayde or helpe in the attaining of, &c.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
instrūmentum, i, n. [id.], an implement of any kind, a utensil, tool, instrument (class.). I.Lit.: militare, Caes. B. G. 6, 30: culinarum argentea, Just. 38, 10, 4: crudelia jussae instrumenta necis, Ov. M. 3, 698.—2. Esp., sing. collect., instruments, apparatus, material, stock, furniture (freq. and class.): instrumentum ac ornamenta villae, Cic. Dom. 24, 62: orationes magna impensā magnoque instrumento tueri, id. Verr. 2, 3, 21, 53: belli instrumentum et apparatus, id. Ac. 2, 1, 3: rusticum, Phaedr. 4, 4, 24; Val. Max. 4, 4, 6: hostium spolia, monumenta imperatorum, decora atque ornamenta fanorum, in instrumento atque in supellectile Verris nominabuntur, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 44, 97; cf. Pall. 1, 43, 1: hibernorum, Caes. B. C. 5, 31: bellicum, Liv. 42, 53, 4: nauticum, id. 30, 10, 3: venatorium, Plin. Ep. 3, 19, 3: piscationis, Paul. Sent. 3, 6, 41.—Esp., in law, the personalty, chattels, or stock of a farm, business, trade, etc.: fundo legato, neque instrumentum fundi ... ad legatarium pertinet, Paul. Sent. 3, 6, 34: instrumento cauponio legato, ea debentur, quae in cauponis usum parata sunt, velut vasa, id. ib. 3, 6, 61: pistoris, id. ib.64: medici, Dig. 33, 7, 18, 10; cf.: in fanis alia vasorum sunt et sacrae supellectilis, alia ornamentorum, quae vasorum sunt instrumenti instar habent, quibus sacrificia conficiuntur,
apparatus
, Macr. S. 3, 11, 5. — II.Trop.A. Of writings, an instrument, document, record: opus est intueri omne litis instrumentum, Quint. 12, 8, 12: aerearum tabularum tria milia ... instrumentum imperii pulcherrimum ac vetustissimum, Suet. Vesp. 8: publici instrumenti auctoritas, id. Calig. 8: emtionis, Dig. 24, 1, 58: si scriptum fuerit instrumento, promisisse aliquem, Paul. Sent. 5, 7, 2: instrumentorum obligatio desideratur, id. ib. 2, 17, 13. — B.Store, provision, supply, means, assistance, furtherance, etc.: oratoris,
provision
,
supply
, Cic. de Or. 1, 36, 165: causarum, id. ib. 2, 34, 146.—Absol.: quid viatici, quid instrumenti satis sit, i. e.
for a journey
, Cic. Att. 12, 32, 2: instrumenta ad obtinendam sapientiam,
