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Instate   Listen
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Instate  v. t.  (past & past part. instated; pres. part. instating)  To set, place, or establish, as in a rank, office, or condition; to install; to invest; as, to instate a person in greatness or in favor.






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"Instate" Quotes from Famous Books



... Seward's influence proved valuable to the country, but it did not serve to recall his popularity. He was thwarted and defeated at all points by the Southern leaders whom he had induced the President to forgive and re-instate. These men had originally established their relations with Mr. Johnson by reason of Mr. Seward's magnanimous interposition. But once established they had been able, from motives adverted to in the previous chapter, to fasten their hold upon Mr. Johnson even to the exclusion of Mr. Seward. When ...
— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine

... avoid all replicas, duplicas, et fatalia, that may delay and put off the cause, I will put you an argumentum, that, eo ipso, shall invalidate your sentence, and re-instate the poor children in their right, assigned to them ...
— The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts • Augustus William Iffland

... not ungrateful, nor neglectful of real merit, but it is wise, and when people squander their fortunes rather with a view to display their own consequence than to gratify or benefit their fellow beings, they must not expect that others will come forward to re-instate them in their grandeur, though they would readily do so to ...
— The Flower Basket - A Fairy Tale • Unknown



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