Wiktionary
vb. (label en British spelling) (alternative spelling of institutionalize English)
WordNet
v. cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison" [syn: commit, institutionalize, send, charge]
Usage examples of "institutionalise".
The years of institutionalised living had left their mark, and a very deep sense of loss and pain that no amount of mature logic could entirely overcome.
After so much institutionalised living, she had just begun to discover how much she actually enjoyed living on her own, how much freedom it gave her.
It had a lonely, almost institutionalised air about it, a lack of warmth, of life, of love.
I got institutionalised in an asylum, and the judge in condemnation threw away the key.
Through his pupil 'Brom-ston (1004-64), who founded the monastery of Reting (Rva-sgreng), Atisa counts as the source of one of the many traditions or sects, which with the exception of the rNying-ma-pa, or followers of Padmasambhava, owe their beginnings to the different Indian and Tibetan personalities active during the Second Diffusion and the monasteries where the special emphases of their teachings were institutionalised.
Industrial base cut so close to the bone the marrow's leaking out, the old vaguely socialist inefficiencies replaced with more rabid capitalist ones, power centralised, corruption institutionalised, and a generation created which'll never have any skills beyond opening a car with a coat hanger and knowing which solvents give you the best buzz with a plastic bag over your head before you throw up or pass out.