• Instate

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ɪnˈsteɪt/

    Origin

    From - + state.

    Full definition of instate

    Verb

    1. (transitive) To install (someone) in office; to establish.
      • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 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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