instant

instant is a Latin form of insto, meaning “press on, pursue; threaten, be at hand; insist”. It is the 3rd person plural present active indicative.

Found 45 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 1.33: … nde alia quaeremus; quibus cognitis spero nos ad haec ipsa via perventuros earumque rerum rationem, quae nunc instant, explicaturos.

Vergil, Aeneid 1.423: Instant ardentes Tyrii pars ducere muros,

All forms of insto (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.