instauration


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in·stau·ra·tion

 (ĭn′stô-rā′shən)
n.
1. Renovation; restoration.
2. The institution or establishment of something.

[Latin īnstaurātiō, īnstaurātiōn-, from īnstaurātus, past participle of īnstaurāre, to renew; see stā- in Indo-European roots.]
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instauration

(ˌɪnstɔːˈreɪʃən)
n
rare restoration or renewal
[C17: from Latin instaurātiō, from instaurāre to renew]
ˈinstauˌrator n
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in•stau•ra•tion

(ˌɪn stɔˈreɪ ʃən)

n.
1. renewal; restoration; renovation; repair.
2. an act of instituting something; establishment.
[1595–1605; < Latin instaurātiō repetition; see store]
in′stau•ra`tor, n.
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instauration

Obsolete, the restoration of something to its former condition; renewal or repair. — instaurator, n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.instauration - the act of starting something for the first timeinstauration - the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new; "she looked forward to her initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new scientific society"
commencement, start, beginning - the act of starting something; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations"
authorship, paternity - the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing; "the authorship of the theory is disputed"
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It is suggestively expressed through the narrator's appropriate instauration of the marble-slab-image which is presented as an emblematic and compressed palimpsest-container of all time such that one can "contemplate in a marble vein all Laudomia of a hundred or thousand years" (128).
According to Marx (1867), capitalism is unstable and it is prone to generate more and more profund/systemic crises which will eventually lead to the breakdown of capitalism and the instauration of socialism through revolution.
This is probably because of the fibrinous nature of the rice bodies that blocked the needle tip upon negative pressure instauration. Therefore, no preoperative culture was possible.