Word Meanings - DIRECTORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.

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• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• ENJOIN
  To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on. This is a suit to enjoin the defendants from disturbing the plaintiffs. Kent. Note: Enjoin has the force of pressing admonition with authority; as, a parent enjoins
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• ENJOINMENT
  Direction; command; authoritative admonition. Sir T. Browne.
• DIRECTORIAL
  1. Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive. 2. Pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the Directory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3. Whoever goes to the directorial presence
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• 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.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• INSTRUCTER
  See INSTRUCTOR
• 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.
• CONTAIN
  1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores
• ENJOINER
  One who enjoins.
• 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.
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• MISINSTRUCT
  To instruct amiss.
• MISINSTRUCTION
  Wrong or improper instruction.
• REINSTRUCT
  To instruct anew.