Word Meanings - MISINSTRUCT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To instruct amiss.

Related words: (words related to MISINSTRUCT)

• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• AMISSIBILITY
  The quality of being amissible; possibility of being lost. Notions of popular rights and the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe. Hallam.
• AMISSION
  Deprivation; loss. Sir T. Browne.
• AMISSIBLE
  Liable to be lost.
• INSTRUCTION
  1. The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information. 2. That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted; as: Precept; information; teachings. Direction; order; command.
• INSTRUCTER
  See INSTRUCTOR
• AMISS
  Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill. What error drives our eyes and ears amiss Shak. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. James iv. 3. To take amiss, to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at'
• INSTRUCTIVE
  Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons. Addison. In various talk the instructive hours they past. Pope. -- In*struct"ive*ly, adv. -- In*struct"ive*ness, n. The pregnant instructiveness
• INSTRUCTIBLE
  Capable of being instructed; teachable; docible. Bacon.
• INSTRUCTOR
  One who instructs; one who imparts knowledge to another; a teacher.
• INSTRUCT
  1. Arranged; furnished; provided. "He had neither ship instruct with oars, nor men." Chapman. 2. Instructed; taught; enlightened. Milton.
• INSTRUCTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or promoting, instruction; educational.
• PREINSTRUCT
  To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More.
• MISINSTRUCT
  To instruct amiss.
• EXTRAMISSION
  A sending out; emission. Sir T. Browne.
• MISINSTRUCTION
  Wrong or improper instruction.
• REINSTRUCT
  To instruct anew.
• INAMISSIBLE
  Incapable of being lost. Hammond. -- In`a*mis"si*ble*ness, n.