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Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons.

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  1. a. Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons.
  2. adj. serving to instruct or enlighten or inform
  3. Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons. Addison. In various talk the instructive hours they past. Pope. -- In*struct"ive*ly, adv. -- In*struct"ive*ness, n. The pregnant instructiveness of the Scripture. Boyle.
  4. Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as,experience furnishes very instructive lessons. Addison.In various talk the instructive hours they past. Pope.-- In*struct"ive*ly, adv.-- In*struct"ive*ness, n.The pregnant instructiveness of the Scripture. Boyle.
  5. j:100 a. serving to instruct or enlighten or inform