instaure means to renew or renovate; to instaurate. It carries an Arena rating of 1260, earned across 6 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, instaure ranks #4,181 of 13,218 for Most Betrayed by Its Sound, #4,547 of 13,218 for Most Whimsical Words, #4,763 of 13,218 for Most Beautiful Words, #5,030 of 13,218 for Most Ingenious Words.
Why “instaure” is a great word
To renew, restore, or re-establish an institution, practice, or system that has fallen into neglect. Its etymology traces to the Latin *instaurare* (“to renew, restore, repeat”), from *in-* (“in, on”) and the rare *staurare*, a verb likely related to Greek *stauros* (“stake, post”), suggesting the foundational act of setting something upright again. Unlike “establish,” which implies a first founding, or “renovate,” which is bound to brick and mortar, to instaure is to revive an abstract order. It is the scholar recovering a lost rite from fragmented texts, the community reviving a lapsed festival in a changed world, the quiet determination to raise again the scaffold of a tradition—a conscious effort to mend the thread of continuity, knowing all such acts are but a stay against entropy.
verb
- To renew or renovate; to instaurate.“their moysture into thousand formes
Of sprouting buddes; all things that show or breath
Are now instaur'd, saving my wretched brest”
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