In-stall'ment, n.

n. [Written also instalment.] 1. The act of installing, or giving possession of an office, with the usual ceremonies or solemnities. Put conditions and take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their first installment, to do impartial justice by law. Milton. 2. The seat in which one is placed. [Obs.] The several chairs of order, look, you scour; Each fair installment, coat, and several crest With loyal blazon evermore be blest. Shak. 3. A part of an entire debt, or sum of money, paid, or agreed to be paid, at a time different from that at which another part, or the balance, is paid, or agreed to be paid; a part of a sum of money paid or to be paid at a particular period. Payment by installment is payment by parts at different times. Bourier. Simmonds.