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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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... proceeded in all cases from young men who were studying, or had recently studied, in the universities, the seminaries, or the technical schools, such as the Medical Academy and the Agricultural Institute. Plainly, therefore, the system of education was at fault. The semi-military system of the time of Nicholas had been supplanted by one in which discipline was reduced to a minimum and the study of natural science formed a ...
— Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace
... the advanced ground that in a machine gun arm would be found a valuable auxiliary as a result of these changed conditions. This theory of Gen. Williston's was published in the Journal of the Military Service Institute in the spring of '86, but never went, so far as Gen. Williston was concerned, beyond a mere theory; nor had the detachment commander ever heard of Gen. Williston's article until after the battle ...
— The Gatlings at Santiago • John H. Parker
... a deadly and undying hatred to the United States, its people, and its institutions. Norman Dunshee, now Professor in Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, also came to Kansas from the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute at Hiram, O., in the fall of 1859, and settled at Pardee. Dr. S. G. Moore, of Camp Point, 111., who came in the spring of 1857, was brother-in-law to Peter Garrett; and these two men were of one heart and one soul in their ...
— Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler • Pardee Butler
... old enough to work got jobs, and Henry of the red hair and freckles found a place as printer's devil at two dollars a week. College was out of the question, and Girard Institute was regarded as infidelic. However, episcopacy did not have quite so strong a hold on this household as it once had. The Georges believed in freedom and took William Lloyd Garrison's paper, "The Liberator," and the mother read it aloud by the light of a ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 9 - Subtitle: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers • Elbert Hubbard
... supplied with munitions of war and led by the ablest men who ever served under the old flag—men such as Lee, Jackson, Early, Smith, Stuart—scores and hundreds trained in arms at West Point or at the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington—men who would be loyal to their States and to ...
— The Way of a Man • Emerson Hough


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