instate
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɪnˈsteɪt/
- Rhymes: -eɪt
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, published 2011, page 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
Translations
To install (someone) in office; to establish.
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
īnstāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of īnstō
Spanish
Verb
instate