Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Renovation; restoration.
- noun The institution or establishment of something.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Restoration; renewal; repair.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance.
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- noun
restoration afterdecay ordilapidation ;renewal ;repair
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
Etymologies
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Examples
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The outcome of Columbus voyage could well be the building of a huge Aztec temple on the site of the Sevilla Catedral and the instauration of daily human sacrifices.
Columbus: The Far Left is Dead Right, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Our country is quite vulnerable; it is only through the instauration of the state of law for all, regardless of any ethnic, religious or politic consideration that we can avoid the very real danger of a chaotic and fatal future.
Ted Hope: We Must Defend the Rights of Artists Everywhere: Jafar Panahi's Defense Ted Hope 2010
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Our country is quite vulnerable; it is only through the instauration of the state of law for all, regardless of any ethnic, religious or politic consideration that we can avoid the very real danger of a chaotic and fatal future.
Ted Hope: We Must Defend the Rights of Artists Everywhere: Jafar Panahi's Defense Ted Hope 2010
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Our country is quite vulnerable; it is only through the instauration of the state of law for all, regardless of any ethnic, religious or politic consideration that we can avoid the very real danger of a chaotic and fatal future.
Notable 2010
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There is a remote possibility that The Crash and The Deep Depression, in a pattern similar to Hitler with The Great Depression, will allow the instauration of a totalitarian regime, an Adventure in a New World Order.
Calman begins to unravel Jeff 2009
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We aimed at nothing less than to speak of the instauration of Spirit and its incarnation in a beautiful form.
Uncollected Prose 2006
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To this group of New England Scientific Romanceurs, those artists who filigree the proclamations of instauration against the inexorable dictates of temporality, we can now wholeheartedly welcome Gregory Feeley.
Steam, Not Steampunk Gregory Feeley 2005
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The idols and false notions which are now in possession of the human understanding, and have taken deep root therein, not only so beset men's minds that truth can hardly find entrance, but even after entrance is obtained, they will again in the very instauration of the sciences meet and trouble us, unless men being forewarned of the danger fortify themselves as far as may be against their assaults.
The New Organon 2005
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The transformation of reality and the instauration of the regnum hominis cannot be entrusted solely to the fire of the laboratories and the work of the shops, but must depend on reason capable of oper - ating with the aid of instruments.
BACONIANISM PAOLO ROSSI 1968
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The instauration of general anaesthesia came from experiments made on man alone.
An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals Albert Leffingwell 1880
knitandpurl commented on the word instauration
"d) Once the cult of St. Mawr was born, it committed itself to what was called "the small instauration" and to "the little idiom.""
The No Variations by Luis Chitarroni, translated by Darren Koolman, p 106
September 16, 2013