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Instanter

Immediately; instantly; at once; as, he left instanter.

Instantly

Without the least delay or interval; at once; immediately.

Instar

a postembryonic stage of life of an arthropod, especially an insect, between two successive molts; also, the arthropod when in that stage of life.

Instate

To set, place, or establish, as in a rank, office, or condition; to install; to invest; as, to instate a person in greatness or in favor.

Instauration

Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance.

Instaurator

One who renews or restores to a former condition.

Instaure

To renew or renovate; to instaurate.

Insteep

To steep or soak; to drench.

instigant

one who instigates; someone who deliberately provokes trouble; an instigator.

Instigate

To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite; -- used chiefly with reference to evil actions; as, to instigate one to a crime.

Instigation

The act of instigating, or the state of being instigated; incitement; esp. to evil or wickedness.

Instill

To drop in; to pour in drop by drop.

Instillation

The act of instilling; also, that which is instilled.

Instillment

The act of instilling; also, that which is instilled.

Instinct

To impress, as an animating power, or instinct.

Instinctive

Of or pertaining to instinct; derived from, or prompted by, instinct; of the nature of instinct; determined by natural impulse or propensity; acting or produced without reasoning, deliberation, instruction, or experience; spontaneous.

Instinctively

In an instinctive manner; by force of instinct; by natural impulse.

Instinctivity

The quality of being instinctive, or prompted by instinct.

Institutional

Pertaining to, or treating of, an institution or institutions; as, institutional legends.

Institutist

A writer or compiler of, or a commentator on, institutes.

Institutive

Tending or intended to institute; having the power to establish.

Instop

To stop; to close; to make fast; as, to instop the seams.

Instore

To store up; to inclose; to contain.

Instroke

An inward stroke; specif., in a steam or other engine, a stroke in which the piston is moving away from the crank shaft; -- opposed to outstroke.

Instructible

Capable of being instructed; teachable; docible.

Instructional

Pertaining to, or promoting, instruction; educational.

Instructive

Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons.

Instructor

One who instructs; one who imparts knowledge to another; a teacher.

Instructress

A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess.

Instrument

To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument; as, a sonata instrumented for orchestra.

Instrumentalism

The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument.

Instrumentalist

One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist.

Instrumentality

The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency.

Instrumentally

By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end.

Instrumentation

The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency.

instrumented

Having instruments attached for the purpose of measuring conditions while under observation; -- said of a person under medical observation or a machine whose performance is being tested.

Instrumentist

A performer on a musical instrument; an instrumentalist.

Insubjection

Lack of subjection or obedience; a state of disobedience, as to government.

Insubmission

Lack of submission; disobedience; noncompliance.

Insubordinate

Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous.

Insubordination

The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.

Insuccation

The act of soaking or moistening; maceration; solution in the juice of herbs.

Insuetude

The state or quality of being unaccustomed; absence of use or habit.

Insufferable

Incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured; insupportable; unendurable; intolerable; as, insufferable heat, cold, or pain; insufferable wrongs.

Insufferably

In a manner or to a degree beyond endurance; intolerably; as, a blaze insufferably bright; a person insufferably proud.

Insufflate

To blow upon; to breath upon or into; to use insufflation upon.

Insufflation

The act of breathing on or into anything The breathing upon a person in the sacrament of baptism to symbolize the inspiration of a new spiritual life. The act of blowing (a gas, powder, or vapor) into any cavity of the body.

Insulated

Standing by itself; not being contiguous to other bodies; separated; unconnected; isolated; as, an insulated house or column.

Insulation

The act of insulating, or the state of being insulated; detachment from other objects; isolation.

Insulite

An insulating material, usually some variety of compressed cellulose, made of sawdust, paper pulp, cotton waste, etc.

Insulting

Containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc.

Insuperability

The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.

Insuperable

Incapable of being passed over or surmounted; insurmountable; as, insuperable difficulties.

Insupportable

Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain.

Insupposable

Incapable of being supposed; not supposable; inconceivable.

Insurable

Capable of being insured against loss, damage, death, etc.; proper to be insured.

Insurancer

One who effects insurance; an insurer; an underwriter.

Insurant

The person insured, called also the insured.

Insure

To underwrite; to make insurance; as, a company insures at three per cent.

Insurer

One who, or that which, insures; the person or company that contracts to indemnify losses for a premium; an underwriter.

Insurgent

A person who rises in revolt against civil authority or an established government; one who openly and actively resists the execution of laws; a rebel.

Insurmountable

Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable; as, insurmountable difficulty or obstacle.

Insurrectionary

Pertaining to, or characterized by, insurrection; rebellious; seditious.

Insurrectionist

One who favors, or takes part in, insurrection; an insurgent.

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