in the stede

Adjective

 * 1) Obsolete phrasing of instead.
 * "The ſhyphyrdes vſe it in the ſtede of a ſtrayner"
 * Modern English:
 * "The shepherds use it instead of a strainer"
 * Turner, William I. A New Herball, Wherein are Conteyned the Names of Herbes in Greke, Latin, Englijsh, Duch, Frenche, and in the Potecaries and Herbaries Latin (etc.). United Kingdom, Steven Mierdman, 1551.