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INSTALLATION , the See also:

ACTION

action of installing or formally placing some one in occupation of an See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office or See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place. The med. See also:

LAT

Lat. installare meant literally " to place in a seat or See also:

STALL (0. Eng. steall, stael, cf. Du. stal, Ger. and Swed. Stall, a common Teutonic word for a place, station, place for standing in; the root is the Indo-European std–, to stand, seen also in Latin stabulum, Greek vraO bs, and in stallion, an entire hors

stall " (stallum), and the word, as now, was particularly used of the ceremonial See also:

INDUCTION (from Lat. inducere, to lead into; cf. Gr. ilrayu yli)

induction of an ecclesiastic, such as a See also:

CANON

canon or See also:

PREBENDARY (Lat. praebendo = give or grant, through Low Lat. praebenda)

prebendary, to his stall in his See also:

CATHEDRAL

cathedral See also:

CHOIR (0. Fr. cuer from Lat. chorus; pronounced quire, and until the end of the 17th century so spelt, the spelling being altered to agree with the Fr. chceur)

choir. Similarly knights of an See also:

order of See also:

CHIVALRY (O. Fr. chevalerie, from Late Lat. caballerius)

chivalry are ceremonially led to their stalls in the See also:

CHAPEL

chapel of their order. The See also:

TERM

term is transferred to any formal See also:

ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

establishment in office or position. From a See also:

French use of installer and installation, the word is frequently applied in a transferred sense to the fixing in position and making ready for use of a See also:

MECHANICAL

mechanical, particularly See also:

electrical, apparatus or plant.

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