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instauration
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun instauration has 1 sense
- instauration(n = noun.act) creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, institution, introduction, origination - the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new; "she looked forward to her initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new scientific society" is a kind of beginning, commencement, start
has particulars: authorship, paternity
CIDE DICTIONARY
instauration, n. [L. instauratio: cf. F. instauration.].
Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance. [1913 Webster]
"Some great catastrophe or . . . instauration."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
instauration, n. formal 1 restoration; renewal.
2 an act of instauration.
2 an act of instauration.
Derivative
instaurator n.
Etymology
L instauratio f. instaurare (as IN-(2): cf. RESTORE)
ROGET THESAURUS
instauration
Restoration
N restoration, restoral, reinstatement, replacement, rehabilitation, reestablishment, reconstitution, reconstruction, reproduction, renovation, renewal, revival, revivessence, reviviscence, refreshment, resuscitation, reanimation, revivification, reviction, Phenix, reorganization, renaissance, second youth, rejuvenescence, new birth, regeneration, regeneracy, regenerateness, palingenesis, reconversion, redress, retrieval, reclamation, recovery, convalescence, resumption, resumption, sanativeness, recurrence, rechauffe, rifacimento, cure, recure, sanation, healing, redintegration, rectification, instauration, repair, reparation, remanufacture, recruiting, cicatrization, disinfection, tinkering, reaction, redemption, restitution, relief, tinker, cobbler, vis medicatrix, curableness, restored, redivivus, convalescent, in a fair way, none the worse, rejuvenated, restoring, restorative, recuperative, sanative, reparative, sanatory, reparatory, curative, remedial, restorable, recoverable, sanable, remediable, retrievable, curable, in statu quo, as you were, phr, revenons a nos moutons, medecin, gueris-toi toi- meme, vestigia nulla retrorsum.
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