Instruct vs Accuse - What's the difference?
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(label) to teach by giving instructions
(label) to direct; to order (usage note : "instruct" is less forceful than "order", but weightier than "advise")
(label) arranged; furnished; provided
* Chapman
(label) instructed; taught; enlightened
To find fault with, to blame, to censure.
* (rfdate) (Epistle to the Romans) 2:15,
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To charge with having committed a crime or offence.
* (rfdate) (Acts of the Apostles) 24:13,
To make an accusation against someone.
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In transitive terms the difference between instruct and accuse
is that instruct is to direct; to order (usage note: "instruct" is less forceful than "order", but weightier than "advise" while accuse is to charge with having committed a crime or offence.In obsolete terms the difference between instruct and accuse
is that instruct is instructed; taught; enlightened while accuse is an accusation.As an adjective instruct
is arranged; furnished; provided.instruct
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(accus)- Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.
- We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms.
- Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
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