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Subject:Re: more peeves From:Kathryn Seifert <kathryn_seifert -at- IL -dot- US -dot- SWISSBANK -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 23 Aug 1994 09:26:27 -0500
I've sent this to at least one person already. Sorry if you are receiving this
information for a second time.
"Instantiate" is a legitimate word, if you consider a word's appearance in a
well-known dictionary as proof of legitimacy. Webster's Ninth New Collegiate
Dictionary defines it as follows:
in*stan*ti*ate \in-'stan-che_-,a_t\ vt -at*ed; -at*ing
(1949)
:to represent (an abstraction) by a concrete instance (heroes instantiate
ideals - W.J. Bennett)
- in*stan*ti*a*tion \-,stan-che_-'a_-shen\ n
