INSTITUTE
institute
(noun) an association organized to promote art or science or education
institute, bring
(verb) advance or set forth in court; “bring charges”; “institute proceedings”
establish, found, plant, constitute, institute
(verb) set up or lay the groundwork for; “establish a new department”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
institute (plural institutes)
An organization founded to promote a cause
An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects
The building housing such an institution
(obsolete) The act of instituting; institution.
(obsolete) That which is instituted, established, or fixed, such as a law, habit, or custom.
(legal, Scotland) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
Etymology 2
Verb
institute (third-person singular simple present institutes, present participle instituting, simple past and past participle instituted)
(transitive) To begin or initiate (something); to found.
(obsolete, transitive) To train, instruct.
To nominate; to appoint.
(ecclesiastical, legal) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.
Adjective
institute (not comparable)
(obsolete) Established; organized; founded.
Source: Wiktionary
In"sti*tute, p. a. Etym: [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.]
Definition: 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).
In"sti*tute, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Instituted; p. pr. & vb. n.
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. Jefferson (Decl. of Indep. ).
3. To nominate; to appoint. [Obs.]
We institute your Grace To be our regent in these parts of France.
Shak.
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. Shak.
5. To ground or establish in principles and rudiments; to educate; to
instruct. [Obs.]
If children were early instituted, knowledge would insensibly
insinuate itself. Dr. H. More.
6. (Eccl. Law)
Definition: 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.
In"sti*tute, n. Etym: [L. institutum: cf. F. institut. See Institute,
v. t. & a.]
1. The act of instituting; institution. [Obs.] "Water sanctified by
Christ's institute." Milton.
2. That which is instituted, established, or fixed, as a law, habit,
or custom. Glover.
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. Burke.
To make the Stoics' institutes thy own. Dryden.
4. An institution; a society established for the promotion of
learning, art, science, etc.; a college; as, the Institute of
Technology; also, a building owned or occupied by such an institute;
as, the Cooper Institute.
5. (Scots Law)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition