instructory

instructory adjective: of or relating to instruction; instructive; educational.

Adjective

instructory (not comparable)

Of or relating to instruction; instructive; educational.
- A power instructory; to go and teach all nations.1821, Ralph Erskine, The Sermons, and Other Practical Works - Volume 7, page 433
- 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...1902, Pure Food Legislation: Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of House of Representatives, page 55

instructory (plural instructories)

(dated) Instruction; curriculum.
- 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!1791, The American museum or universal magazine, page 38
- In their opinion, based on their recent experience, this type of teacher in-service training program has supplied an educational medium desperately overdue in the retraining and updating of social science instructory.1965, California Council for the Social Studies Review, volumes 5–8, page 15

plural	instructories

From instruct + -ory.

What does instructory mean?: Instructory means of or relating to instruction; instructive; educational.
What part of speech is instructory?: Instructory can be an adjective or a noun.

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