| 单词 |
instructor |
| 释义 |
instructor|ɪnˈstrʌktə(r)|
Also 5–6 -our.
[a. L. instructor preparer (in med.L., teacher), agent-n. from instruĕre to instruct. Orig. in AF. form instructour = F. instructeur (14th c. in Godef. Compl.).]
One who instructs; a teacher.
1460J. Capgrave Chron. (Rolls) 260 Thei were principal instructouris of heretikes. 1530Palsgr. Epistle to King (1852) 7 Maister Gyles Dewes, somtyme instructour to your noble grace in this selfe tonge. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 213 To the end hee might winne Heraclitus to be his instructour. 1583Hollyband Campo di Fior 53 The most famous instructor of children. 1693Dryden Juvenal Ded. (1697) 61 Horace is somewhat the better Instructor of the two..his Instructions are more general; Juvenal's more limited. 1715De Foe Fam. Instruct. i. i. (1841) I. 29 The Spirit is the secret instructor. 1873Act 36 & 37 Vict. c. 77 §13 A permanent staff, consisting of an officer, and of so many seamen instructors as may seem fit. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 397 Let the judgment of them rest with the instructor of youth.
transf.1879McCarthy Own Times II. xxix. 369 Such history..is of little value as an instructor in the lessons of the times and events it deals with.
b. spec. in American colleges: A college teacher inferior in rank to a professor; variously = Reader, Teacher, Lecturer, or Tutor, in an English college or university.
1722in B. Peirce Hist. Harvard Univ. (1833) 232 Voted..that Mr. Judal Monis be improved as an instructor of the Hebrew language in the College. 1873in Sci. Amer. (1973) May 11 There are at present 500 students, and the faculty consists of 40 professors and instructors. 1891Univ. Chicago Official Bull. i. 11 Lecturers and teachers..shall be classified as follows... (6) The Instructor. 1900Harvard Univ. Catal. 1899–1900, 17 Lecturers and Instructors. 1947[see full professor (full a. 12 d)].
Hence instrucˈtorial a.; inˈstructorship, the office or post of an instructor.
1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 2344 Recently the instructorship has been changed to a professorship. 1890Pall Mall G. 23 Oct. 1/3 To found, or aid in founding, an instructorship in road engineering. 1952Instructorial [see assistant professor]. |
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