The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
--Jefferson (Decl. of Indep. ). -
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.
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vb. (en-past of: institute)
Usage examples of "instituted".
The legate was empowered to distribute the vacant benefices among the ecclesiastics who should subscribe the creed of the Vatican: three schools were instituted to instruct the youth of Constantinople in the language and doctrine of the Latins.
For if those who prayed and sacrificed all day were called superstitious by the ancients, were those also called so who instituted (what he blames) the images of the gods of diverse age and distinct clothing, and invented the genealogies of gods, their marriages, and kinships?
When, therefore, these things are found fault with as superstitious, he implicates in that fault the ancients who instituted and worshipped such images.
A system of government was therefore instituted, which was evidently copied from the policy of the church.
According to the plan of government instituted by Diocletian, the four princes had each their Praetorian praefect.
A public sale of favor and injustice was instituted, both in the court and in the provinces, by the worthless delegates of his power, whose merit it was made sacrilege to question.
After he had permitted his licentious troops to satiate their rage and avarice, he instituted a more regular system of rapine and oppression.
During her lifetime, she bestowed the greater part of her estates in Peloponnesus, and her testament instituted Leo, the son of Basil, her universal heir.
The office of vizier was instituted for Aladin, the brother of Orchan.
The election was annual: a severe scrutiny was instituted into the conduct of the departing senator.
By a like craft, too, did these evil spirits command that scenic entertainments, of which I have already spoken, should be instituted and dedicated to them.
After the death of the younger Gracchus, the consul Lucius Opimius, who had given battle to him within the city, and had defeated and put to the sword both himself and his confederates, and had massacred many of the citizens, instituted a judicial examination of others, and is reported to have put to death as many as 3000 men.
And,-a thing incredible, if it were not thoroughly well proved,-these very theatric representations of the crimes of their gods have been instituted in honor of these same gods.
King Tarquin, therefore, having been banished, and the consular government having been instituted, it followed, as the same author already alluded to says in his praises of the Romans, that "the state grew with amazing rapidity after it had obtained liberty, so great a desire of glory had taken possession of it.
This very same Varro testifies that he wrote first concerning human things, but afterwards concerning divine things, because the states existed first, and afterward these things were instituted by them.