instauration

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But, despite some abstruse Jamesianisms like “instauration,” “peculation,” “invigilator,” and — my favorite — an “inspissatedly expressed and barely scrutable conjecture,” he tempers his stylistic mimicry to appeal to modern tastes, with shorter paragraphs and heightened urgency.

From Los Angeles Times

We aimed at nothing less than to speak of the instauration of spirit, and its incarnation in a beautiful form.

From Project Gutenberg

The instauration of general anaesthesia came from experiments made on man alone.

From Project Gutenberg

Its aim was to realise in political institutions that great instauration of which Bacon dreamed in the world of intelligence.

From Project Gutenberg