IPage 174
- English Word Instability Definition The quality or condition of being unstable; want of stability, firmness, or steadiness; liability to give way or to fail; insecurity; precariousness; as, the instability of a building.
- English Word Instability Definition Lack of determination of fixedness; inconstancy; fickleness; mutability; changeableness; as, instability of character, temper, custom, etc.
- English Word Instable Definition Not stable; not standing fast or firm; unstable; prone to change or recede from a purpose; mutable; inconstant.
- English Word Instableness Definition Instability; unstableness.
- English Word Install Definition To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place.
- English Word Install Definition To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest with any charge by the usual ceremonies; to instate; to induct; as, to install an ordained minister as pastor of a church; to install a college president.
- English Word Installation Definition The act of installing or giving possession of an office, rank, or order, with the usual rites or ceremonies; as, the installation of an ordained minister in a parish.
- English Word Installation Definition The whole of a system of machines, apparatus, and accessories, when set up and arranged for practical working, as in electric lighting, transmission of power, etc.
- English Word Installed Definition of Install
- English Word Installing Definition of Install
- English Word Installment Definition The act of installing; installation.
- English Word Installment Definition The seat in which one is placed.
- English Word Installment Definition A portion of a debt, or sum of money, which is divided into portions that are made payable at different times. Payment by installment is payment by parts at different times, the amounts and times being often definitely stipulated.
- English Word Instamp Definition See Enstamp.
- English Word Instance Definition The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.
- English Word Instance Definition That which is instant or urgent; motive.
- English Word Instance Definition Occasion; order of occurrence.
- English Word Instance Definition That which offers itself or is offered as an illustrative case; something cited in proof or exemplification; a case occurring; an example.
- English Word Instance Definition A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
- English Word Instance Definition To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite; as, to instance a fact.
- English Word Instance Definition To give an example.
- English Word Instanced Definition of Instance
- English Word Instancing Definition of Instance
- English Word Instancy Definition Instance; urgency.
- English Word Instant Definition Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest.
- English Word Instant Definition Closely pressing or impending in respect to time; not deferred; immediate; without delay.
- English Word Instant Definition Present; current.
- English Word Instant Definition Instantly.
- English Word Instant Definition A point in duration; a moment; a portion of time too short to be estimated; also, any particular moment.
- English Word Instant Definition A day of the present or current month; as, the sixth instant; -- an elliptical expression equivalent to the sixth of the month instant, i. e., the current month. See Instant, a., 3.