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.
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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.
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vb. (present participle of institute English)
Usage examples of "instituting".
Maya was sure they were instituting superficial changes meant to resemble Praxis’s only in order to keep their workers and their profits too.
She got caught up by affairs in Sheffield instead, mostly instituting the new economic system, which she thought important enough to keep her there.
Meanwhile, back in Sheffield, the council was facing any number of problems of its own: unforeseen difficulties in instituting the eco-economy.
Maya was sure they were instituting superficial changes meant to resemble Praxis's only in order to keep their workers and their profits too.
A man may recover damages against another for maliciously and without probable cause instituting a criminal, or, in some cases, a civil prosecution against him upon a false charge.
The conduct of the defendant consists in instituting proceedings on a charge which is in fact false, and which has not prevailed.
I hereby move that Senior Warden Commander Vashnar be indicted for abuse of power, for seeking to instigate the murders of citizens of goodwill in proclaiming the Death Cry, and for instituting the formation of .
Their party, the Union of the Democratic Center, had pledged to end Argentina's long history of authoritarianism by instituting reforhis granting extensive individual liberty and an end to the crippling control of the government in business.
This was a shut-ended situation, because the explosions would surely bring the army out of its Apocalypse Now torpor, and those in command surely would begin instituting a building-by-building search of the compound as soon as the post-percussion fire was under control.