Instance \In"stance\, n. [F. instance, L. instantia, fr. instans. See {Instant}.] 1. The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.
Undertook at her instance to restore them. --Sir W. Scott.
2. That which is instant or urgent; motive. [Obs.]
The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love. --Shak.
3. Occasion; order of occurrence.
These seem as if, in the time of Edward I., they were drawn up into the form of a law, in the first instance. --Sir M. Hale.
4. That which offers itself or is offered as an illustrative case; something cited in proof or exemplification; a case occurring; an example; as, we could find no instance of poisoning in the town within the past year. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Most remarkable instances of suffering. --Atterbury.
5. A token; a sign; a symptom or indication. --Shak.
{Causes of instance}, those which proceed at the solicitation of some party. --Hallifax.
{Court of first instance}, the court by which a case is first tried.
{For instance}, by way of example or illustration; for example.
{Instance Court} (Law), the Court of Admiralty acting within its ordinary jurisdiction, as distinguished from its action as a prize court.
Syn: Example; case. See {Example}.
Instance \In"stance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Instanced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Instancing}.] To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite; as, to instance a fact. --H. Spenser.
I shall not instance an abstruse author. --Milton.
Instance \In"stance\, v. i. To give an example. [Obs.]
This story doth not only instance in kingdoms, but in families too. --Jer. Taylor.
She has noted, for instance, "various ethnic preferences" in aspirin taking.
I don't think you have any instance as flagrant as this one." Just how flagrant is too flagrant isn't clear under Florida law: A certain degree of "pre-petition planning," as bankruptcy lawyers like to call it, is acceptable.
An odd invitation to take Marianne Moore to the circus, for instance, recalls Efforts of Affection, where the two poets feed performing elephants brown bread.
One of the grievances in Lithuania, for instance, is that the Lithuanians are short of food because half of what they produce is shipped to the Russian republic.
For instance the shortie jacket over legs alone became a sort of pretty coat-dress this time and in fact was cut sexily like a tulip.
For instance, its different product groups now get to set their own prices and control their manufacturing operations, taking over that responsibility from various marketing groups.
So a few years on a chunky salary would presumably be welcome - allowing him, for instance, to trade up from the holiday time share he has in Puerto Vallarta.
Divorcees, for instance, weren't married but didn't quite feel single.
"In every instance, I was clearly acting as a go-between for these private Texas citizens."
While a tennis shoe, for instance, rarely sells for more than Dollars 120 a pair, hiking boots are often Dollars 200 or more.
This month, for instance, Unocal received $42.23 a barrel for oil produced at Parachute Creek, but the government paid $23.46 of that.
What happens, for instance, if Mattel inadvertently sends out a shipment of defective Barbie dolls and buyers refuse to pay for them?
For instance, a spate of new paper machines ordered in 1987 or 1988 are just coming into production, creating surplus capacity for many types of paper.
For instance, I said I didn't want my character to carry a gun.
He disagreed with a specific proposal in the House bill that would allow no buyout that raised the debt-equity ratio beyond 1:1 in takeovers, saying the ratio had to be examined individually in each instance.
Analysts in Japan couldn't recall an instance where a Japanese retailer has acquired a company that filed a bankruptcy petition.
For instance, a bacteria that resists the formation of ice has been sprayed on strawberries to help the plants resist frost.
Such an instance arose with Prime Minister Papandreou's letter to Gen.
A distinguished musicologist, for instance, now sells mineral water on the streets of Moscow.
Hollowing out the fan blade, for instance, enabled GE to cut the weight of that part and its attachment by 20%.
The glaring instance where a Japanese concern is considered to have overpaid was Bridgestone's acquisition of Firestone.
At Adolph Coors Co., for instance, production peaks in the summer, so executives traditionally have taken winter vacations.
It is not an instance of the elusiveness or reshaping of truth: The circumstantial evidence does damn the professor.
Above all, there is no costed programme or even a list of costed options of the kind that is standard, for instance, in the work of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. This is a great wasted opportunity.
For instance, cash outperformed stocks over a period of more than two decades, from October 1961 to July 1982, according to Ibbotson Associates, an institutional research firm.
For instance, the $119 package doesn't include representation in a divorce proceeding or malpractice suit.
Shifting gears on a 10-speed bike, for instance, usually requires the rider to take one hand off the handlebars, reach down and move a lever.
"In this instance, there was insider trading, by Levine, and there was additional trading," said a person who has read the GAO's draft.
For instance, they may withdraw people from low coastal areas.
Massachusetts, for instance, will impose a "use fee" equal to the service tax on in-state businesses that employ an out-of-state accounting firm.