instar
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Is instar a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (by extension) A stage in development.Examples: "We avoided Tourist Homes, country cousins of Funeral ones, old-fashioned, genteel and showerless, with elaborate dressing tables in depressingly white-and-pink little bedrooms, and photographs of the landlady’s children in all their instars."; "California spirituality is a late instar of America’s utopian impulse, and corporate meritocracy derives from the Whig dream of the self-made man that entranced young Abraham Lincoln."broadly
verb (English)
1. (transitive, archaic) To stud or adorn with stars or other brilliants; to star.Examples: "Yet mark with shining steps the humbler way; And, as angelic feet instar the sky, Drop the bright sparks along the wilderness."; "Espey could distinguish through the clear darkness the fringed branches of a pine-tree clinging to the heights above and waving against the instarred sky, and below a vague moving whiteness […]"; "He was dreaming, surely; or were those deep, instarred eyes really fixed upon him with that wistful gaze which he had seen only twice before?"archaictransitive
2. (transitive) To make a star of; set as a star.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary