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1553.  [see INSTRUCTED].

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1560.  Bible (Geneva), Ecclus. xxvi. 14. There is nothing so muche worthe as a woman wel instructed.

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1781.  Cowper, Conversat., 903. But let the wise and well-instructed hand Once take the shell beneath his just command.

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1835.  Court Mag., VI. 224/2. A well-instructed appreciation of his public claims.

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1838.  Fr. A. Kemble, Jrnl. Resid. Georgia (1863), 24. Mary’s brother … performs all the offices of a well-instructed waiter with great efficiency.

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1865.  Pusey, Truth Eng. Ch., 224. Deadly sins could hardly be committed in ignorance by any one of well-instructed conscience.

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  Hence Well-instructedness. rare–1.

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1628.  [see INSTRUCTEDNESS].

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