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Instate

Instate \In*state"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Instated; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
instate

"to put someone in a certain state or condition," c.1600, from in + state (n.1). Related: Instated; instating.

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instate

vb. (context transitive English) To install (someone) in office; to establish.

Usage examples of "instate".

It is clear now that Aydrian means to instate one of his cohorts into the structure of the Abellican Order at the very highest level.

Then I will instate Marcalo De’Unnero as the Father Abbot of all the Abellican Church and reposition my warriors as I see fit.

Once Tazol, a Warrior of her father's camp, had been chosen as her life-mate, it was a convenient excuse to instate him in a high position within the Fleet.

Officially these days VoidCorp denied the very existence of the treacherous rogue division that had declared its independence and somehow even managed to get itself instated as a stellar nation.