INSTAURATION, the re-establishment, or re-stauring of a religion, a church, or the like, to its former state. The word is by some derived from the old Latin instaurum, which signified the "stock" of things necessary for the tilling and managing of grounds; as cattle, tools, harness, &c. But the word instaurum is only of the middle age: instauratio is of much greater antiquity, and by some derived from instar, "like," as importing a thing's being brought
to its former likeness or appearance. See RESTAURATION.