Definition of "instruct"

Supply me with the habit and instruct meHow I may formally in person bear meLike a true friar.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene iii]

What a dishonour’s this, to me, to have so Dull a Father, that needs to be instructed in his Duty.

1682, Aphra Behn, The False Count‎, London: Jacob Tonson, act III, scene 2, page 33

[…] the design of tragedy is to instruct by moving the passions,

1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 156, 14 September, 1751, in Volume 5, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, p. 177

[…] I should deem you a man sore sick, it may be, yet not so sick but that an instructed and watchful physician might well hope to cure you.

1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “chapter 10”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields

At the Laundromat I instruct Chris on how to operate the drier, start the washing machines […]

1974, Robert M[aynard] Pirsig, chapter 29, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, part 4, page 353

What, shall a child instruct you what to do?

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene i]

All the servants were instructed to address her as “Mum,” or “Madam” […]

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 39, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848

Observing that the Christ Child’s nose was running, she deftly wiped it; then she held the handkerchief in place, while instructing him to “blow.”

1989, John Irving, chapter 5, in A Prayer for Owen Meany‎, New York: Ballantine, published 1997, page 195

For he had neither ship, instruct with oares,Nor men to fetch him from those stranger shores.

c. 1615, George Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses‎, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 4, p. 62

Who ever by consulting at thy shrineReturn’d the wiser, or the more instructTo flye or follow what concern’d him most,And run not sooner to his fatal snare?

1671, John Milton, Paradise Regained‎, London: John Starkey, Book 1, lines 438-441, p. 24