Noun

(lb) The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.

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*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=5, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”}}

(lb) An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:If my instructions may be your guide.

(lb) An order or command.

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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.

(lb) A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.

Noun

(en noun)

An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.

* 1788 , Alexander Hamilton,

The reflection that the fate of a fellow-creature depended on his sole fiat , would naturally inspire scrupulousness and caution; [...]

(English law) A warrant of a judge for certain processes.

(English law) An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.