overinstruct

Verb

overinstruct (third-person singular simple present overinstructs, present participle overinstructing, simple past and past participle overinstructed)

1. To instruct excessively.
   • It is a common fault to overinstruct the composing room—to tell them the size of type to use in every line and in every corner.1922, E. H. Kastor, Advertising, LaSalle Extension University, page 122
   • …feminist critics found fault with the magazine’s tendency to overinstruct readers on how to become some stereotype of a woman they might not be naturally….1996, Candace Lewis, “Helen Gurley Brown”, in Nancy Signorielli, editor, Women in Communication: A Biographical Sourcebook, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 36