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Webster 1913 Edition

Install

In-stall′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Installed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Installing
.]
[F.
installer
, LL.
installare
, fr. pref.
in-
in + OHG.
stal
a place, stall, G.
stall
, akin to E.
stall
: cf. It.
installare
. See
Stall
.]
[Written also
instal
.]
1.
To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place.
She
installed
her guest hospitably by the fireside.
Sir W. Scott.
2.
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.
Unworthily
Thou wast
installed
in that high degree.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition

Install

INSTALL'

,
Verb.
T.
[Gr. to send.] To set, place or instate, in an office, rank or order; to invest with any charge, office or rank, with the customary ceremonies. To install a clergyman or minister of the gospel, is to place one who has been previously ordained, over a particular church and congregation, or to invest an ordained minister with a particular pastoral charge; in England, to induct a dean, prebendary or other ecclesiastical dignitary into possession of the church to which he belongs.

Definition 2024

inställ

inställ

See also: install

Swedish

Verb

inställ

  1. imperative of inställa.

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