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instauration|ɪnstɔːˈreɪʃən|
[ad. L. instaurātiōn-em, n. of action f. instaurāre to restore: see instore v. Cf. F. instauration (16th c. in Hatz.).]
1. The action of restoring or repairing; restoration, renovation, renewal.
a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 621 At the time of the instauration of all things. 1612Selden Notes Drayton's Poly-olb. xi. 186 If you referre it to instauration of what was discontinued by Wilfrids returne to his Archbishoprique. [1620Bacon (title) Instauratio Magna. Ibid. 35 (Sub-title) Pars Secunda operis quæ dicetur Novum Organum, sive Indicio Vera de Interpretatione Naturæ.] 1625Bacon Ess. Ded. Dk. Buckhm., My Instauration, I dedicated to the King: My Historie of Henry the Seuenth..to the Prince. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) I. 135 He gave the first institution, or (as others will have it) the best instauration, to the university of Oxford. 1761Biog. Dict., Ld. Bacon II. 8 At this time he appears to have drawn the first out-lines of his grand instauration of the sciences. 1879M. Pattison Milton vi. 68 Its aim was to realise in political institutions that great instauration of which Bacon dreamed in the world of intelligence.
†2. Institution, founding, establishment. Obs.
1614Raleigh Hist. World ii. (1634) 491 Knowing the instauration of these games to have been in the 408th yeare after Troy. 1631Heywood Eng. Eliz. (1641) 53 The inchoation and instauration of a glorious Church and Commonweal. 1778R. Lowth Transl. Isaiah Notes (ed. 12) 213 The instauration and advancement of states. |