reinstructv.
/ˌriːɪnˈstrʌkt/, U.S. /ˌriᵻnzˈtrək(t)/, /ˌriᵻnˈstrək(t)/ transitive. To instruct again or in turn.
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society > education > teaching > [verb (transitive)] > reteach
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society > law > legal profession > lawyer's client > engage a lawyer [verb (transitive)] > instruct or brief > again or in turn
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1641 R. Codrington tr. Queen Margaret of Valois Memorialls i. 8 Causing them to re-instruct him [Fr. les faisant instruire], she constrayned them to return to the true, holy, and ancient Religion of our Fathers.
1676 Lett. & Poems in Honour Duchess Newcastle 162 Such a General Strain, Would reinstruct the School-boy-world again.
1740 D. Waterland Regeneration iii. 34 Being reinstructed in the Faith and reclaimed in Manners.
1821 Ess. Relig. & Moral III. xxxi. 482 These..were far indeed from re-instructing him in that divine knowledge which he had spurned from him.
1861 A. Trollope Orley Farm (1862) I. xxxiv. 266 He must..instruct that attorney how to reinstruct him, and how to reinstruct those other barristers who must necessarily be employed.
1923 Educ. Res. Bull. 2 293/2 Whenever a process was found in which the class as a whole was not proficient, the entire class was reinstructed.
1967 Times 26 Oct. 11/4 Until some human programmers re-instruct these electronic automatons, then any mail will continue to be delayed.
2005 J. Anderson Mechanically Inclined iii. 114 If anything is off track with more than one group, I stop and reinstruct, checking the first few.
Derivatives
reinˈstruction n. [ < re- prefix + instruction n., after reinstruct v.]
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society > education > teaching > [noun] > reteaching
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1823 Times 5 June 2/5 He then moved the house that there should be a re-instruction to the committee.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 Jan. 13/2 A course of reinstruction in the dry rudiments of knowledge.
1998 E. M. Levinson Transition ii. 42 Reinstruction and reassessment may then follow.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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