instaure

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verb

To renew or renovate; to instaurate.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person instaures · participle present instauring · participle past instaured · past instaured

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo 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 brest

    1601 (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)

Origin

See instaurate.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

austrineNeustria
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APA

instaure. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/instaure

MLA

“instaure.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/instaure. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “instaure,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/instaure.

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