instructory
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to instruction; instructive; educational.
Example Sentences
- "A power instructory; to go and teach all nations."
- "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 or educational capacity, making it purely instructory, and leave the more stringent applications and regulations of those things to local authorities?"
- "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 such people have: "Right team, we can only reach the next section by dropping down through this hole.""
- "He rememberd Kathy was not going to get into touch contact behind him during the drills as she had more important instructor-y things to do instead."
- "Reports, tool kits and instructory booklets have been created to advice^([sic]) practitioners on how to implement successful LED strategies."
- "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 first instructory to the latest ages!"
Etymology
From instruct + -ory.