instauration

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin instauratio: compare French instauration.

Noun edit

instauration (countable and uncountable, plural instaurations)

restoration after decay or dilapidation; renewal; repair
- (Can we date this quote by T. Burnet and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
  some great catastrophe or […] instauration

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “instauration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)