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

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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

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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

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