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n. - The act of starting something for the first time.

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  • The outcome of Columbus voyage could well be the building of a huge Aztec temple on the site of the Sevilla Catedral and the instauration of daily human sacrifices.
  • To this group of New England Scientific Romanceurs, those artists who filigree the proclamations of instauration against the inexorable dictates of temporality, we can...
  • Our country is quite vulnerable; it is only through the instauration of the state of law for all, regardless of any ethnic, religious or politic consideration that we...
  • The transformation of reality and the instauration of the regnum hominis cannot be entrusted solely to the fire of the laboratories and the work of the shops, but must...
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