Instil vs Equip - What's the difference?
instil | equip |
To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said especially of ships and of troops. Dryden.
To dress up; to array; accouter.
To prepare (someone) with a skill
As verbs the difference between instil and equip
is that instil is while equip is to furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc; -- said especially of ships and of troops dryden.equip
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
- Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet. Ludlow.
- The country are led astray in following the town, and equipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode. Addison.