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instaure

instaure verb: to renew or renovate; to instaurate.

Verb

instaure (third-person singular simple present instaures, present participle instauring, simple past and past participle instaured)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To renew or renovate; to instaurate.
    • their moysture into thousand formes
      Of sprouting buddes; all things that show or breath
      Are now instaur'd, saving my wretched brest1601 (date written), Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], What You Will, London: […] G[eorge] Eld, for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the page)

Forms of instaure

third-person singular presentinstaures
present participleinstauring
past participleinstaured
pastinstaured

Origin of instaure

See instaurate.

Questions about instaure

What does instaure mean?
Instaure means to renew or renovate; to instaurate.
What part of speech is instaure?
Instaure is a verb.
What is the past tense of instaure?
The past tense of instaure is instaured.

Words near instaure in the dictionary

  1. instaurating
  2. instauration
  3. instaurations
  4. instaurator
  5. instaurators
  6. instaure
  7. Instaverse
  8. Instaworthy
  9. instead
  10. instead of
  11. insteada

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