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instate en · ADJ

Pronunciation

/ˈɪn.steɪt/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂-tu-s ~ *sth₂-téw-s Proto-Italic *status Latin statuslbor. Old French estatbor. Middle English stat English state English instate From in- + state (noun).

Meanings

(alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of in-state.
alt of in-state

instate en · VERB

Pronunciation

/ɪnˈsteɪt/

Etymology

Meanings

(transitive) To install (someone) in office; to establish.
- 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.” 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 175:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Source
instating	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
instates	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic
instated	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
instated	Tense=Past	lexicographic

Deriveds

instatement · reinstate

Translations (7)

cs ustanovit (To install (someone) in office; to establish.) · fr instaurer (To install (someone) in office; to establish.) · cs dosadit (To install (someone) in office; to establish.) · bg въвеждам в длъжност (To install (someone) in office; to establish.) · es instaurar (To install (someone) in office; to establish.) · pl wprowadzić na stanowisko (To install (someone) in office; to establish.) · pl wprowadzać na stanowisko (To install (someone) in office; to establish.)