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Meaning of instauro | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2
[ĩːˈstau̯.roː]

Definitions

  1. to set up, erect, make
    conjugation-1
  2. to repeat, start, or perform anew or afresh; renew (after a period of disuse), resume
    conjugation-1

Equivalents

English repeat

Examples

“… īnstauratque diem dōnīs, pecudumque reclūsīs”

And [Dido] repeats [the ritual] with [divine] offerings [each] day. And poring over the still-throbbing entrails within the just-opened breasts of [sacrificial] animals, she takes counsel [therein]. (Dido — acting as a haruspex — keeps re-enacting the extispicium as if there had been an error, a practice known as instauratio.)

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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