instiller

English

Etymology

From instill +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)

Noun

instiller (plural instillers)

1. One who instills.
   • 1601, John Marston, What you Will:

     As is th' instiller of divinest love Unchang'd by time immortal maugre death.

   • 1749, Philip Skelton, Ophiomaches: Or, Deism Revealed:

     Never was there such a juggle as was played in my mind, nor so artful an instiller of loose principles, as my Tutor

   • 2012, Simon A. Wood, Christian Criticisms, Islamic Proofs:

     This faithful advisor or instiller of doubts about the religion states: the religion's goal on earth contradicts the government's goal on earth.

   • 2013, Caroline Cressey, The Bluebell Wood, page 131:

     Whilst many believed that he was only an accessory and had not been involved in any active killing, Major Royale, increasingly through his inebriate haze, believed that this man was the generator, the instiller of planned thoughts, the procreator of violence.

2. (obsolete) An eyedropper.
   • 1851, “The Great Exhibition”, in The Medical times:

     While on the subject of eye instruments, we must notice Dr. Lewis's instiller for collyria.

Anagrams

• reinstill

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

instiller

1. to instil

Conjugation

Conjugation of instiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	instiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	instillant /ɛ̃s.ti.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		instillé /ɛ̃s.ti.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	instille /ɛ̃s.tij/	instilles /ɛ̃s.tij/	instille /ɛ̃s.tij/	instillons /ɛ̃s.ti.jɔ̃/	instillez /ɛ̃s.ti.je/	instillent /ɛ̃s.tij/
	imperfect	instillais /ɛ̃s.ti.jɛ/	instillais /ɛ̃s.ti.jɛ/	instillait /ɛ̃s.ti.jɛ/	instillions /ɛ̃s.tij.jɔ̃/	instilliez /ɛ̃s.tij.je/	instillaient /ɛ̃s.ti.jɛ/
	past historic2	instillai /ɛ̃s.ti.je/	instillas /ɛ̃s.ti.ja/	instilla /ɛ̃s.ti.ja/	instillâmes /ɛ̃s.ti.jam/	instillâtes /ɛ̃s.ti.jat/	instillèrent /ɛ̃s.ti.jɛʁ/
	future	instillerai /ɛ̃s.tij.ʁe/	instilleras /ɛ̃s.tij.ʁa/	instillera /ɛ̃s.tij.ʁa/	instillerons /ɛ̃s.tij.ʁɔ̃/	instillerez /ɛ̃s.tij.ʁe/	instilleront /ɛ̃s.tij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	instillerais /ɛ̃s.tij.ʁɛ/	instillerais /ɛ̃s.tij.ʁɛ/	instillerait /ɛ̃s.tij.ʁɛ/	instillerions /ɛ̃s.ti.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	instilleriez /ɛ̃s.ti.jə.ʁje/	instilleraient /ɛ̃s.tij.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	instille /ɛ̃s.tij/	instilles /ɛ̃s.tij/	instille /ɛ̃s.tij/	instillions /ɛ̃s.tij.jɔ̃/	instilliez /ɛ̃s.tij.je/	instillent /ɛ̃s.tij/
	imperfect2	instillasse /ɛ̃s.ti.jas/	instillasses /ɛ̃s.ti.jas/	instillât /ɛ̃s.ti.ja/	instillassions /ɛ̃s.ti.ja.sjɔ̃/	instillassiez /ɛ̃s.ti.ja.sje/	instillassent /ɛ̃s.ti.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	instille /ɛ̃s.tij/	—	instillons /ɛ̃s.ti.jɔ̃/	instillez /ɛ̃s.ti.je/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “instiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

īnstīller

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of īnstīllō