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Webster 1913 Edition

Instate

In-state′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Instated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Instating
.]
To set, place, or establish, as in a rank, office, or condition; to install; to invest;
as, to
instate
a person in greatness or in favor
.
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Instate

INSTA'TE

,
Verb.
T.
[in and state.] To set or place; to establish, as in a rank or condition; as, to instate a person in greatness or in favor.
1.
To invest.

Definition 2024

instate

instate

See also: in state

English

Verb

instate ‎(third-person singular simple present instates, present participle instating, simple past and past participle instated)

  1. (transitive) To install (someone) in office; to establish.
    • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 175:
      Except that in the rest of society there was sex aplenty, with the hedonism of “the Sixties” almost officially instated as dogma, and the slow, surreptitious growth of this consensus to the then unguessed-at status of “correctness.”

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Latin

Verb

instāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of instō

Etymology

From in- +‎ state.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɪnˈsteɪt/

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