Instruction

INSTRUC'TION, noun [Latin instructio.]

1. The act of teaching or informing the understanding in that of which it was before ignorant; information.

2. Precepts conveying knowledge.

Receive my instruction and not silver. [[Proverbs 8#10|Proverbs 8:10]].

3. Direction; order; command; mandate. The minister received instructions from his sovereign to demand a categorical answer.