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Definition of Instal
1. Verb. Set up for use. "They want to instal the doors"; "We put in a new sink"
Generic synonyms: Lay, Place, Pose, Position, Put, Set
Specialized synonyms: Retrofit, Reinstall, Post, Put Up
Derivative terms: Installing, Instalment, Installation, Installing, Installment
2. Verb. Put into an office or a position. "The new president was installed immediately after the election"
Specialized synonyms: Induct, Invest, Seat, Enthrone, Invest, Vest
Derivative terms: Installation, Installation
3. Verb. Place. "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz"
Definition of Instal
1. Verb. (transitive) (alternative spelling of install) ¹
2. Verb. (British rare) To pay by instalments. ¹
3. Noun. (informal) Installation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Instal
1. to install [v -STALLED, -STALLING, -STALS] - See also: install
Lexicographical Neighbors of Instal
Literary usage of Instal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and by John Barnard Byles, Maurice Barnard Byles, Walter John Barnard Byles (1899)
"... on each instalment (q). able by instal- It is conceived that presentment and
notice of dishonour ments. are required when each instalment falls due, ..."
2. Collectanea Anglo-premonstratensia: Documents Drawn from the Original by Francis Aidan Gasquet, Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), Premonstratensians (1906)
"... realiter in eodem, secundum consuetudinem Ordinis nostri ; et ipsum instal-
lando, in possessionem dicte ecclesie cum omnibus .suis ..."
3. The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, James Cockcroft, Lucius Polk McGehee, Charles Porterfield (1904)
"... has been held that authority to make a levy to pay interest on a debt and
provide a sinking fund for its extinction authorizes a tax to pay the instal- ..."
4. Pioneering in the Far East: And Journeys to California in 1849 and to the by Ludvig Verner Helms (1882)
"... on completion of which terms Sir James intended permanently to retire from
all active administration in Sarawak, and instal Mr. Brooke in his place. ..."
5. The Master Workman; Or, True Masonic Guide: Containing Elucidations of the by Henry Clinton Atwood (1850)
"and to instal their officers elect, according to ancient form and the usages of
the Craft; and for so doing, this shall be his Warrant. rr a , Given under ..."
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