instiller
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Noun
instiller (plural instillers)
- One who instills.
- 1601, John Marston, What you Will:
- As is th' instiller of divinest love Unchang'd by time immortal maugre death.
- 1749, Philip Skelton, Ophiomaches: Or, Deism Revealed:
- Never was there such a juggle as was played in my mind, nor so artful an instiller of loose principles, as my Tutor
- 2012, Simon A. Wood, Christian Criticisms, Islamic Proofs:
- This faithful advisor or instiller of doubts about the religion states: the religion's goal on earth contradicts the government's goal on earth.
- 2013, Caroline Cressey, The Bluebell Wood, page 131:
- Whilst many believed that he was only an accessory and had not been involved in any active killing, Major Royale, increasingly through his inebriate haze, believed that this man was the generator, the instiller of planned thoughts, the procreator of violence.
- (obsolete) An eyedropper.
- 1851, “The Great Exhibition”, in The Medical times:
- While on the subject of eye instruments, we must notice Dr. Lewis's instiller for collyria.
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French
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Conjugation
Conjugation of instiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | instiller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | instillant /ɛ̃s.ti.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | instillé /ɛ̃s.ti.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | instille /ɛ̃s.tij/ |
instilles /ɛ̃s.tij/ |
instille /ɛ̃s.tij/ |
instillons /ɛ̃s.ti.jɔ̃/ |
instillez /ɛ̃s.ti.je/ |
instillent /ɛ̃s.tij/ |
| imperfect | instillais /ɛ̃s.ti.jɛ/ |
instillais /ɛ̃s.ti.jɛ/ |
instillait /ɛ̃s.ti.jɛ/ |
instillions /ɛ̃s.tij.jɔ̃/ |
instilliez /ɛ̃s.tij.je/ |
instillaient /ɛ̃s.ti.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | instillai /ɛ̃s.ti.je/ |
instillas /ɛ̃s.ti.ja/ |
instilla /ɛ̃s.ti.ja/ |
instillâmes /ɛ̃s.ti.jam/ |
instillâtes /ɛ̃s.ti.jat/ |
instillèrent /ɛ̃s.ti.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | instillerai /ɛ̃s.tij.ʁe/ |
instilleras /ɛ̃s.tij.ʁa/ |
instillera /ɛ̃s.tij.ʁa/ |
instillerons /ɛ̃s.tij.ʁɔ̃/ |
instillerez /ɛ̃s.tij.ʁe/ |
instilleront /ɛ̃s.tij.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | instillerais /ɛ̃s.tij.ʁɛ/ |
instillerais /ɛ̃s.tij.ʁɛ/ |
instillerait /ɛ̃s.tij.ʁɛ/ |
instillerions /ɛ̃s.ti.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
instilleriez /ɛ̃s.ti.jə.ʁje/ |
instilleraient /ɛ̃s.tij.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | instille /ɛ̃s.tij/ |
instilles /ɛ̃s.tij/ |
instille /ɛ̃s.tij/ |
instillions /ɛ̃s.tij.jɔ̃/ |
instilliez /ɛ̃s.tij.je/ |
instillent /ɛ̃s.tij/ |
| imperfect2 | instillasse /ɛ̃s.ti.jas/ |
instillasses /ɛ̃s.ti.jas/ |
instillât /ɛ̃s.ti.ja/ |
instillassions /ɛ̃s.ti.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
instillassiez /ɛ̃s.ti.ja.sje/ |
instillassent /ɛ̃s.ti.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | instille /ɛ̃s.tij/ |
— | instillons /ɛ̃s.ti.jɔ̃/ |
instillez /ɛ̃s.ti.je/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “instiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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