·vt To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the mental activities or senses; to expand, strengthen, and discipline, as the mind, a faculty, ·etc.,; to form and regulate the principles and character of; to prepare and fit for any calling or business by systematic instruction; to Cultivate; to Train; to Instruct; as, to educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste.