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Institute   /ˈɪnstətˌut/   Listen
noun
Institute  n.  
1.
The act of instituting; institution. (Obs.) "Water sanctified by Christ's institute."
2.
That which is instituted, established, or fixed, as a law, habit, or custom.
3.
Hence: An elementary and necessary principle; a precept, maxim, or rule, recognized as established and authoritative; usually in the plural, a collection of such principles and precepts; esp., a comprehensive summary of legal principles and decisions; as, the Institutes of Justinian; Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England. Cf. Digest, n. "They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy." "To make the Stoics' institutes thy own."
4.
An institution; a society established for the promotion of learning, art, science, etc.; a college; as, the Institute of Technology; The Massachusetts Institute of Technology; also, a building owned or occupied by such an institute; as, the Cooper Institute.
5.
(Scots Law) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
Institutes of medicine, theoretical medicine; that department of medical science which attempts to account philosophically for the various phenomena of health as well as of disease; physiology applied to the practice of medicine.


verb
Institute  v. t.  (past & past part. instituted; pres. part. instituting)  
1.
To set up; to establish; to ordain; as, to institute laws, rules, etc.
2.
To originate and establish; to found; to organize; as, to institute a court, or a society. "Whenever any from of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government."
3.
To nominate; to appoint. (Obs.) "We institute your Grace To be our regent in these parts of France."
4.
To begin; to commence; to set on foot; as, to institute an inquiry; to institute a suit. "And haply institute A course of learning and ingenious studies."
5.
To ground or establish in principles and rudiments; to educate; to instruct. (Obs.) "If children were early instituted, knowledge would insensibly insinuate itself."
6.
(Eccl. Law) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.
Synonyms: To originate; begin; commence; establish; found; erect; organize; appoint; ordain.


adjective
Institute  adj.  Established; organized; founded. (Obs.) "They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and institute, very few to suffice."





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... Suttas in the Sacred Books of the East, and other writings. I need not mention other authorities, having endeavoured always to specify them where I make use of them. My proximity and access to the Bodleian Library and the Indian Institute have ...
— Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms • Fa-Hien
... that it had been the intention of Servius to resign the kingly honor, and to institute in its stead the office of Consul, to be jointly held by two persons chosen annually. There seems to be some ground for this belief, because immediately after the banishment of the Tarquins, the republic was established with two consuls at its head. [Footnote: ...
— The Story of Rome From the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic • Arthur Gilman
... The exploiting of such a charter is not possible without considerable sums of money. In order to be armed financially for the time that Turkey will accord such a charter, the second Zionist congress (1898) decided to found a national Jewish bank institute, the "Jewish Colonial Trust," with its headquarters in London. This resolution was carried out the following year (1899). The bank has been brought into being. Its capital in shares is two million ...
— Zionism and Anti-Semitism - Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil • Max Simon Nordau
... St. Mary's Church in the Fort, and the chaplain and his churchwardens agreed in thinking that such education was not of the kind that a Church should control, and that it was rather their duty to institute in Madras a residential free-school for poor Protestant children of British descent, which should be conducted on the lines of the many 'charity schools' in England; and in 1715, with the approval of the Directors, 'St. ...
— The Story of Madras • Glyn Barlow
... The Institute devotes itself to mulberries, silk-worms and silk manufacture. There are 200 students, as many as it will hold. The young men become teachers of sericulture, advisers in mills and experts of co-operative sericultural societies. The institution, in addition to the fees ...
— The Foundations of Japan • J.W. Robertson Scott


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