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ancients; and I would infiance in Shakefpeare of tlie for¬ 
mer, in Dorfet of the latter. Dryden. 
INSTANCING, f. The aft of producing an inftance 
or example. 
INSTANT, adj. [Fr. infians, Lat.] Prefling'; urgent; 
.importunate; earneft.—And they were infiant with loud 
voices, requiring that he might be crucified. Luke xxiii. 2.3. 
■—Rejoicing in hope ; patient in tribulation; continuing 
infiant in prayer. Romans xii. 12.—Immediate; without 
any time intervening ; prefent: 
Nor native country thou, nor friend, fhalt.fee ; 
Nor war haft thou to wage, nor year to come ; _ • 
Impending death is thine, and infiant doom. Prior. 
Quick; making no delay.— .Infiant without difturb they 
.took alarm, Milton. 
.Griev’d that a vifitant fo long ftiould wait 
Unmark’d urihonour’d, at a monarch’s gate ; 
bifiant he flew with hofpitable hafte, 
.And the new friend with courteous air embrac’d. Pope. 
INSTANT,/ [French.] An infinitely fmall part of 
duration,'or in which we perceive no fucceflion, or which 
takes up the time of only one idea in our mind. — It is a 
maxim in mechanics, that no natural effeft can be pro¬ 
duced in an infiant., or without fome definite time; alfo 
that, the greater the time, the greater the effeft. And 
hence may appear the reafon, why a burthen feems lighter 
■to a perfon the fafter he carries it; and why, the falter a 
-perfon Aides or fcates on the ice, the lefs liable it is to 
break, or bend. Hutton. 
Her nimble body yet in time muft move, 
And not in infiants t hrough all places ftride; 
But fhe is nigh and far, beneath, above, 
In point of time which thought cannot divide. Dames. 
A particular time.—I can at any unfenfonable infiant of 
• the night appoint her to look out at her lady’s chamber 
■window. Shakefpeare. —It is ufed in low and commercial 
language for a day of the prefent or current month.—On 
the twentieth infiant it is my intention to ereft a lion’s 
head. Addifon. 
INSTANTANETTY, /. Unpremeditated production. 
—Which have no fort of claim to be called verfes, befide 
their iifiantaneity. Skenfionr. 
INSTANTA'NEOUS, adj. Done in an inftant; gift¬ 
ing at once without any perceptible fucceflion ; acting 
with the utmoft fpeed 5 done with the utmoft fpeed.— 
This manner of the beginning or ceafing of the deluge 
doth not at all agree with the infiantaneous aftions of cre¬ 
ation and annihilation. Burnet's Theory. 
The rapid radiance infiantaneous ftrikes 
Th’ illumin’d mountain, Thomfon. 
INSTANTANEOUSLY, adj. In an invifible point of 
-ftme —What I had heard of the raining of frogs came to 
my thoughts, there being reafon to conclude that thofe 
came from the clouds, or were infiantaneoujly generated. 
Derham. 
INSTANTA'NEOUSNESS,/ [from infiantaneous. \ The 
ftate of being done in an inftant. 
INSTANTLY, adv. Immediately ; without any per¬ 
ceptible intervention of time.—In a great whale, the fenfe 
and the effects of any one part of the body infiantly make 
a tranfcuriion throughout the whole body. Bacon. 
Sleep infiantly fell on me, 
As fev’ral winds arife. Milton. 
With urgent importunity^ 
He meant to make them know their follie’s prife. 
Had not thofe two him infiantly deiired 
T’ affuage hjs wrath, and pardon their mefprife. Spenfer. 
To INSTATE, v. a. To place in a certain rank or con¬ 
dition,—This kind of conqueft does only inflate the vic- 
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tor in thefe rights, which the conquered prince had. Hate.- 
—To invelt. Objolete : 
For his poffeflions. 
Although by confifcation ‘they are ours, 
We do infiate and widow you withal. ‘ Shakefpeare. 
INSTATING, /. The aft of putting into a proper 
ftate. 
INSTAURA'TION, / Reftoration ; reparation.; re¬ 
newal ; as the re-eftnblifhment, or reftau ration, of a reli¬ 
gion, a church, or the like, to its former ftate. The word 
is by fome derived from the old Latin infiaurum, whicji 
fignified the “ftock” of things neceffary for the tiijiqg 
and managing of grounds ; as cattle, tools, harnefs, Sec. 
But the word infiaurum is only of the middle age : inflau- 
ratio is of much greater antiquity, and by fome derived 
from infiar, “ like,” as importing a thing’s being brought 
to its former likenefs or appearance. See Restoration. 
INSTAU'RUM, f. in old records, the whole ftock of a 
farm; the veftment, plate, and other things belonging to 
a church. 
INSTEAD', adv. In the place ; in the room : 
He in derifion fets 
Upon their tongues a various fpirit, to rafe 
Quite out their native language, and infiead 
To low a jangling noife of tongues unknown. Milton. 
INSTEAD OF, prep. In room of; in place of.—-Vary 
the form of fpeech, and, infiead of the word church, make 
it a queftion in politics, whether the monument be in 
danger. Swift. —Equal to.—This very confideration to a 
wife man is infiead of a thoufand arguments, to fatisfy him, 
that, in thofe times, no fuch thing was believed. Tillotfon. 
To INSTEE'P, v. a. To foak ; to mace'rate in moifture: 
Suffolk firft died, and York, all haggled over, 
Comes to him where in gore he lay infieep'd. Shakefpeare , 
Lying under water: 
The gutter’d rocks, and congregated fands, 
Traitors infieep'd to clog'the guiltlefs keel. Shakefpeare. 
INSTEEP'ING, f The aft of foaking, or macerating. 
IN'STEP, f. The upper part of the foot where it-joins 
to the leg.— The caliga was a military Ihoe with a very 
thick foie, tied above the infiep with leather thongs. Ar- 
buthnot. . 
IN'STER, a river of Pruflia, which rifes fix miles north- 
eaft of Pilkallem, and joins the Angera'p, to form the 
Fregel, near Infterburgh 
IN'STERBURGH, a town of Pruflian Lithuania, con¬ 
taining two churches, about 350 houfes, and 3000 inha 
bitants ; the caftle was built in the 14th century. Corn 
and beer are its principal articles of trade : forty-four 
miles eaft of Konigfberg. Lat. 54. 35. N. Ion. 22. 2. E. 
To IN'STIGATE, v. a. \infiigo, Lat. infiiguer, Ff. ] To 
urge to ill; to provoke or incite to a crime.—If a.fervant 
infiigates a ftranger to kill his malter, this being murder in 
the ftranger as principal, of courfe the fervant is acceflary 
only to the crime of murder, though he would have been 
guilty as principal of petty treafon. Blackfione. 
IN'STIGATING,/ The aft of provoking, or of ftir- 
ring up. 
INSTIGATION, f. Incitement to a crime; encou¬ 
ragement; impulfe to ill.—Shall any man, that wilfully 
procures the cutting of whole armies to pieces, let up for 
an innocent ? as if the lives that were taken away by his 
infiigation were not to be charged upon his account, 
L'Efirange. 
Why, what need we 
Commune with you of this ? But rather follow 
Our forceful infiigation, Shakefpeare. 
IN'STIGATOR, f. Inciter to ill.—Either the eager- 
nefs of acquiring or the revenge of miffing dignities, have 
been the great infiigators of ecclefiaftic feuds. Decay of 
Piety. 
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