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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Institute \In"sti*tute\, n. [L. institutum: cf. F. institut. See Institute, v. t. & a.]
The act of instituting; institution. [Obs.] ``Water sanctified by Christ's institute.''
--Milton.That which is instituted, established, or fixed, as a law, habit, or custom.
--Glover.-
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.
--Burke.To make the Stoics' institutes thy own.
--Dryden. 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.
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(Scots Law) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
--Tomlins.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.
--Dunglison.
Institute \In"sti*tute\ ([i^]n"st[i^]*t[=u]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Instituted ([i^]n"st[i^]*t[=u]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Instituting.]
To set up; to establish; to ordain; as, to institute laws, rules, etc.
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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.
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To nominate; to appoint. [Obs.]
We institute your Grace To be our regent in these parts of France.
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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.
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To ground or establish in principles and rudiments; to educate; to instruct. [Obs.]
If children were early instituted, knowledge would insensibly insinuate itself.
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(Eccl. Law) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.
--Blackstone.Syn: To originate; begin; commence; establish; found; erect; organize; appoint; ordain.
Institute \In"sti*tute\ ([i^]n"st[i^]*t[=u]t), p. a. [L. institutus, p. p. of instituere to place in, to institute, to instruct; pref. in- in + statuere to cause to stand, to set. See Statute.] Established; organized; founded. [Obs.]
They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and
institute, very few to suffice.
--Robynson
(More's
Utopia).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "to establish in office, appoint," from Latin institutus, past participle of instituere "to set up," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + statuere "establish, to cause to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand," with derivatives meaning "place or thing that is standing" (see stet). General sense of "set up, found, introduce" first attested late 15c. Related: Instituted; instituting.
1510s, "purpose, design," from institute (v.). From 1540s as "an established law." The sense of "organization, society" is from 1828, borrowed from French Institut national des Sciences et des Arts, established 1795 to replace the royal academies, from Latin institutum, neuter past participle of instituere.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 An organization founded to promote a cause 2 An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects 3 The building housing such an institution 4 (context obsolete English) The act of instituting; institution. 5 (context obsolete English) That which is instituted, established, or fixed, such as a law, habit, or custom. 6 (context legal Scotland English) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation. Etymology 2
(context obsolete English) Established; organized; founded. v
1 (context transitive English) To begin or initiate (something); to found. 2 (context obsolete transitive English) To train, instruct. 3 To nominate; to appoint. 4 (context ecclesiastical legal English) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.
WordNet
n. an association organized to promote art or science or education
v. set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new department" [syn: establish, found, plant, constitute]
avance or set forth in court; "bring charges", "institute proceedings" [syn: bring]
Wikipedia
1. Noun- An institute is an organisational body created for a certain purpose.
Institute was an American rock band featuring Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale. The band's only album, Distort Yourself, was released September 13, 2005.
An institute is a permanent organizational body created for a certain purpose.
Institute or institutes may also refer to:
Usage examples of "institute".
We came here when we escaped from an institute in Said Ababa two years ago.
Yet when this great man, after whom Linnaeus himself named the baobab tree Adansonia digitata, was invited to become a member of the Institute a little before I had the honour of addressing it, he did not possess a whole shirt nor yet an untorn pair of breeches in which he could attend, still less a coat, God rest his soul.
That fifty years hence, these scourges of humanity will be curable by the administration of any remedy, to be hereafter discovered by experimentation on animals,--in the Rockefeller Institute, for instance,--I have not the slightest faith.
One is the bas-relief signed by Antonianos of Aphrodisias and found some fifty years ago on the property of an agronomic institute, the Fundi Rustici, in the Committee Room of which it is now placed.
This in turn involved us in the proceedings of the Stellar Institute back on Arvel, its rather hectic social rounds as well as its data evaluations.
Hamy, himself a member of the French Institute in question, and one of the best informed scientists in matters relating to Australasian maritime discovery.
Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and Yemen have instituted democratic changes that appear to be building momentum for greater reforms.
Confederate doorman Banat had taken it upon himself to institute a new system of doorkeeping.
Bionetics Laboratories, a subsidiary of Litton Industries, under contract to the National Cancer Institute, on the effects of 123 chemical compounds in bioassays on 20,000 mice covering periods of up to eighty-four weeks.
Successful activated transfer of mammalian genes, Virunga Biocontrol Institute.
Virunga Biocontrol Institute was built in the hills overlooking Lake Kivu, at the southern edge of the Virunga range.
Eugene Johnson, the civilian biohazard expert who was running the Ebola research program at the Institute, had a reputation for being a little bit wild.
What Johnson did not know at the time, but what he sensed almost instinctively after the failure of the Kitum Cave expedition, was that the knowledge and experience he gained inside a cover in Africa, and the space suits and biohazard gear he carried back with him to the Institute, might serve him well at another time and in another place.
The most prestigious scientific institute in Germany, the Kaiser Wilhelm institute for Anthropology, Human Genetics, and Eugenics, the German Research Council, and their extensive biomedical and eugenics research programs, had no qualms about the killing of so-called inferior and polluted races.
Ben was presenting a major research project from the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with all the prestige that automatically conferred.