Instate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɪnˈsteɪt/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Instate is a verb meaning (transitive) To install (someone) in office; to establish.
Meaning
(transitive) To install (someone) in office; to establish.
More Meanings
- Alternative form of in-state.
Example Sentences
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.”
Word Forms
- instates
- instating
- instated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include anything, lying, something, enstate, install, set up.
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