Word Meanings - INSENSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.

Related words: (words related to INSENSE)

• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• UNDERSTANDINGLY
  In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
• UNDERSTAND
  understanden, AS. understandan, literally, to stand under; cf. AS. forstandan to understand, G. verstehen. The development of sense is 1. To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge
• UNDERSTANDING
  Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
• 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
• 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
• UNDERSTANDER
  One who understands, or knows by experience. Dryden.
• INSTRUCTIBLE
  Capable of being instructed; teachable; docible. Bacon.
• UNDERSTANDABLE
  Capable of being understood; intelligible. Chillingworth.
• 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.
• MISUNDERSTANDER
  One who misunderstands. Sir T. More.
• MISUNDERSTANDING
  1. Mistake of the meaning; error; misconception. Bacon. 2. Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. "Misunderstandings among friends." Swift.
• INUNDERSTANDING
  Void of understanding. Bp. Pearson.
• MISUNDERSTAND
  To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.
• MISINSTRUCTION
  Wrong or improper instruction.
• REINSTRUCT
  To instruct anew.