instateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsteɪt/

動詞

instate (三人称単数 現在形 instates, 現在分詞 instating, 過去形および過去分詞形 instated)

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.”

派生語

• instatement