instare

instare is a Latin form of insto, meaning “press on, pursue; threaten, be at hand; insist”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 107 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.16.5: Ubi se diutius duci intellexit et diem instare quo die frumentum militibus metiri oporteret, convocatis eorum principibus, quorum magnam copiam in castris h …

Terence, Andria 4.1.661: Instare ut dicerem me esse ducturum patri;

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.