instate

See also: in state and in-state

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ state.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsteɪt/

Verb

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

(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.”

Derived terms

instatement

Anagrams

antiset, santite, satinet, statine, tanties

Latin

Verb

instāte

second-person plural present active imperative of instō

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