Instates

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To place someone in a position of authority or power
2. To formally establish or set a person in office or rank
3. To officially nominate or install a candidate into a specific role or function

Etymology: "Instates" is the third-person singular form of "instate," which is formed from the prefix "in-" attached to the noun "state." The noun traces back through Latin "status," meaning a standing or condition, from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning to stand. The Latin noun passed into Old French as "estat" and then into Middle English as "stat," before becoming modern "state." The verb itself is a straightforward English compound: "in-" means "into" or "in," so to instate someone is to put them into a state, condition, or position. The sense of placing a person into an office or dignity follows naturally from the older sense of "state" as a rank or station, the same idea that gives us phrases like "lying in state" or "head of state."

Synonyms: appoints, assigns, places, enacts, establishes

Antonyms: removes, dismisses, abolishes, repeals