instructio

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

in-structĭo, ōnis, f., a constructing, erecting, building.

I Lit.: novi balinei, Trajan. ad Plin. Ep. 10, 35: tubulorum in cloacas, i. e. a sinking into , insertion , Vitr. 5, 9.—

B Transf., an arranging , planting , setting in array : signorum, Cic. Caec. 15, 43; cf. Front. Strat. 2, 3, 4: militum, Auct. Her. 3, 10, 18.—In plur., Amm. 28, 1. —

II Trop., instruction (syn.: doctrina, institutio, disciplina): futuri temporis pro instructione (al. per structionem), Arn. 5, 167.

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