instructory
Of or relating to instruction; instructive; educational.
Adjective
- Of or relating to instruction; instructive; educational.
- A power instructory; to go and teach all nations. - 1821, Ralph Erskine, The Sermons, and Other Practical Works - Volume 7, page 433:
- Do you not think that the best thing the Federal Government could do would be to confine its efforts to an investigation; that any bureau it might establish having to do with this question should operate in an advisory...
- Eventually we all bumped into each other and when the log jam started to give people the jitters our instructor pointed to a slender crack in the floor, the size of a letter box, and said, in that casual instructory way...
Origin
From instruct + -ory.
Noun
- Instruction; curriculum.
- Your vict'ries won—your revolutions ended—Your constitution newly made—and mended—Your fund of wit—your intellectual riches—Plans in the closet—in the senate speeches—Will wake this age of heroes, wits, and sages, The...
- In their opinion, based on their recent experience, this type of teacher in-service training program has supplied an educational medium desperately overdue in the retraining and updating of social science instructory. -...