preinstruct

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ instruct

Verb

preinstruct (third-person singular simple present preinstructs, present participle preinstructing, simple past and past participle preinstructed)

1. (transitive) To instruct previously or beforehand.
   • 1662, Henry More, The Defence of the Moral Cabbala:

     as if Plato had been pre-instructed by men of the same Spirit with the Apostle

Related terms

• preinstruction

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “preinstruct”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)