instate
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editinstate (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.”
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editTo install (someone) in office; to establish.
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editīnstāte
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editinstate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of instar combined with te