Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To restore; repair.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To renew or renovate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
renew orrenovate .
Etymologies
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Latin instauratus.
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Examples
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Likewise, current Islamist terrorism, to the extent that it intends to establish theocratic governments everywhere and to instaurate a social order founded on principles that are completely opposed to those of the States that it combats, is incontestably linked to this form of revolutionary terrorism.
Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends 2009
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In the desolate zones, controlled by drug dealers and growing larger every year: What can Western "liberty" oppose to the tyrannies that the terrorists would like to instaurate?
Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends 2009
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