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)

1. (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

• instatement
• reinstate

Translations

To install (someone) in office; to establish.

• Bulgarian: въвеждам в длъжност (vǎveždam v dlǎžnost)
• French: instaurer (fr)
• Spanish: instaurar (es)

Anagrams

• attines, tanties, statine, Atenist, santite, antiset, satinet, natties

Latin

Verb

īnstāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of īnstō

Spanish

Verb

instate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of instar combined with te