† self-instructern.
Obsolete.
1. A person who teaches, educates, or trains himself or herself; a person who engages in or practises self-instruction.In quot. 1679 with reference to animals.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] > self-taught person
autodidact1534
self-instructer1679
automath1759
self-instructor1812
1679 T. Pierce Decad of Caveats to People Eng. App. 411 Shall we say..the Bee, the Emmet, and the Silkworm, are all ἀυτοδίδακτοι, or Self-Instructers?
1830 J. F. Watson Ann. Philadelphia 245 With such gifts in their possession, many of them were enabled to become their self-instructers in numerous branches of science.
1846 B. B. Edwards Biogr. Self-taught Men I. 18 Such lawyers..have formed an independent habit of judgment. Such is the fact with those individuals who have been self-instructers.
2. A manual used for self-instruction.Chiefly in the titles of such manuals.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > book > kind of book > textbook or book of instructions > [noun]
handbookOE
doctrinalc1450
directory1543
school1545
instruction book1546
companion1621
body1647
tutor1665
self-instructor1700
tutorer1702
preceptorc1710
textbook1779
self-instructer1800
bench book1887
user guide1936
user manual1936
text1955
1800 (title) The complete young man's companion; or, self instructer: being an introduction to all the various branches of useful learning and knowledge.
1838 T. W. Fryer (title) Fryer's guide to arithmetic, or, the arithmetical self-instructer.
1910 Magic Wand Nov. 50 (advt.) Price, complete apparatus, ‘self-instructer’, guide to presentation and ‘patter’, 12/6.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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