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▪ I. instalment1, installment|ɪnˈstɔːlmənt|
[f. install v.1 + -ment.]
1. The action of installing or fact of being installed; formal induction into an office or dignity; installation.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xxiii. (Arb.) 61 At solemne feasts and pompes of coronations and enstallments of honourable orders. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, iii. i. 163 The instalement of this noble Duke, In the seate royall of this famous Ile. 1625F. Markham Bk. Hon. ii. x. 80 Chosen to giue a further glory to Coronations and Enstalments. 1661Pepys Diary 29 Oct., The custom of Lord Mayors going the day of their installment to Paul's. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. xx. 312 In dignities possession is given by installment; in rectories and vicarages by induction. 1836Ld. Cockburn Jrnl. I. 128 Peel..is a most fitting man for this literary honour. His instalment will be made the occasion of a grand party festival.
b. In Presbyterian and other Churches of U.S.A.: The institution of an already ordained minister to a charge; = induction 4 b. Cf. install v.1 1 c.
1788–1888Form Govt. Presb. Ch. U.S.A. i. xvi. §4 When any minister is to be settled in a congregation, the installment, which consists in constituting a pastoral relation between him and the people of that particular church, may be performed either by the presbytery, or by a committee appointed for that purpose.
c. Establishment in any position, seat, or place.
1646Evance Noble Ord. 2 Elyes enstallment, or a large grant of honour to Ely. 1829I. Taylor Enthus. x. 296 The instalment of the Inspired Volume in the throne of universal authority. 1863J. G. Murphy Comm. Gen. ii. 21–2 His instalment in the garden as its owner. 1884C. F. Woolson in Harper's Mag. Feb. 375/2 The installment of our twelve selves in these..carriages.
†2. A place or seat wherein some one is installed. Obs. rare.
1598Shakes. Merry W. v. v. 67 Each faire Instalment, Coate, and seu'rall Crest, With loyall Blazon, euermore be blest. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God xiv. ix. (1620) 482 Here also we see their estate in their immortall future instalment.
▪ II. instalment2|ɪnˈstɔːlmənt|
Also install-.
[f. install v.2 + -ment, or f. in-2 + stalment. Cf. estallment. The spelling instalment is now usual in the U.K. and installment in the U.S.]
†1. The arrangement of the payment of a sum of money by fixed portions at fixed times; = estallment. Obs.
1732Hearne Otterbourne & Whethamst. 376 note, Estallamentum idem est quod stallamentum, i.e. Anglice, stallment sive installment, vel (ut olim efferebant) estallment. Id quod liquet ex vocibus sive assignationes. 1775Ash, Instalment,..the act of bringing to its proper place in any account, a payment.
2. ‘The payment, or the time appointed for payment, of different portions of a sum of money, which, by agreement of the parties, instead of being payable in the gross, at one time, is to be paid in parts, at certain stated times’ (Tomlins Jacob's Law Dict. 1797).
1776Adam Smith W.N. ii. ii. (1869) I. 314 This sum ought to have been paid in at several different instalments.
3. a. Each of several parts into which a sum payable is divided, in order to be paid at different fixed times; a part of a sum due paid in advance of the remainder. attrib. (freq. in recent use), as instalment credit, instalment plan, instalment system, etc.
1776Adam Smith W.N. ii. ii. (1869) I. 314 A great part of the proprietors, when they paid in their first instalment, opened a cash account with the bank. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 263 Interest on installments of Foreign debt. Ibid. II. 380 A loan to be taken up by gradual instalments. 1828Webster s.v., In large contracts..it is not unusual to agree that the money shall be paid by installments. 1849Lytton Caxtons ii. iii, Your father takes, we say, 50 shares at {pstlg}50 each, paying only an instalment of {pstlg}2 a share. 1871Baroness Bunsen in Hare Life (1879) II. vii. 418 Königsberg has just paid in the last instalment of the debt she was obliged to incur. 1876Los Angeles Daily Herald 4 Oct. 3/6 Lots for Sale on the Installment Plan. 1887Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 18 Jan. 3/7 Installment men and agents generally will find just what they need by addressing Installment Dealers' Supply Co. 1894Vermont Agric. Rep. XIV. 94 They..sell the horse on the installment plan, getting enough down to pay all the horse is worth, and holding notes for the rest. 1895Kipling Day's Work (1898) 156 ‘It's the Governor,’ said the skipper. ‘He's been selling her on the instalment plan.’ 1899Sayce Early Israel vii. 260 The ordinary rate of interest was 20 per cent., paid in monthly instalments. 1904‘Saki’ Reginald 52 They're getting there on the instalment system—so much down, and the rest when you feel like it. 1909‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny iii. 47 When they get money they exhibit a strong tendency to spend it..instead of giving it to the instalment man. 1923R. D. Paine Comrades of Rolling Ocean xi. 187 ‘This is still a valuable ship,’ explained Torrance, ‘even if she is floating around the high seas on the installment plan.’ 1927W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 112 To pay by the instalment system. 1927Sat. Even. Post 24 Dec. 28/2 Upon that premise..is based the vast present-day development of installment selling. 1935Economist 3 Aug. 234/2 The United States itself is the leader of a new, hard, materialistic civilisation..whose priests are the instalment-seller and the advertising expert. 1942Short Guide Gt. Brit. (U.S. War Dept.) 31 Instalment plan, hire-purchase system, or hire system. 1948Manch. Guardian Weekly 8 Jan. 4/1 The President says inflation can be beaten..by putting an end to instalment buying. 1952Ibid. 15 May 3/1 The Federal Reserve Board was a little tight-lipped in explaining its move..to suspend controls on hire purchase, or what is known here as instalment credit. 1955Times 15 Aug. 11/5 The Federal Reserve..has expressed mild concern over the rapid rise of consumer instalment (hire purchase) debt. 1965M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate iv. 104 On his discharge he bought a car on the instalment plan. 1967N.Y. Times (International Edition) 11–12 Feb. 3/3 The measures include..more severe installment purchase restraints and reduction in travel allowances. 1972Accountant 17 Aug. 206/2 Instalment credit..group services and group funding, are the subject of special reviews. 1973N.Y. Law Jrnl. 20 Feb., The assumption of installment payments by appellant did not serve to release decedent.
b. fig. A part of something produced or supplied in advance of the remainder; one of several parts supplied or produced at different times.
1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 140 The mixture is to be poured on by instalment, as it were. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vii. 194 This was but a slight instalment of lenity. 1858Lytton What will he do? i. iv, When I had finished the first instalment of the work..my mother grew alarmed for my health. 1862H. Spencer First Princ. ii. ix. §78 (1875) 233 His conclusion may be accepted as a large instalment of the truth. |