instate

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Pronunciation

/ɪnˈsteɪt/

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/ɪnˈsteɪt/ · /ˈɪn.steɪt/

Definition of instate

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

(transitive)To install (someone) in office; to establish.

“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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verb

(transitive)To install (someone) in office; to establish.

“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.””

adj

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From in- + state (noun).

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