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enstate

enstate is the archaic form of instate.

Meaning of instate

Verb

instate (third-person singular simple present instates, present participle instating, simple past and past participle instated)

  1. (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.”2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 175

Forms of enstate

third-person singular presentenstates
present participleenstating
past participleenstated
pastenstated

Questions about enstate

What is enstate the archaic form of?
Enstate is the archaic form of instate.

Words near enstate in the dictionary

  1. enstar
  2. enstarred
  3. enstarring
  4. enstars
  5. enstasis
  6. enstate
  7. enstated
  8. enstates
  9. enstating
  10. enstatite
  11. enstatite chondrite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: enstate (page history and authors); instate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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