institute

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• WordNet 3.6
  • v institute advance or set forth in court "bring charges", "institute proceedings"
  • v institute set up or lay the groundwork for "establish a new department"
  • n institute an association organized to promote art or science or education
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• Interesting fact: According to the American Institute of Stress, job stress approximately costs the U.S. industry over $300 billion dollars per year
• • Institute An institution; a society established for the promotion of learning, art, science, etc.; a college; as, the Institute of Technology; The Massachusetts Institute of Technology; also, a building owned or occupied by such an institute; as, the Cooper Institute .
  • p. a Institute ĭn"stĭ*tūt Established; organized; founded. "They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and institute , very few to suffice."
  • Institute 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.""To make the Stoics' institutes thy own."
  • Institute That which is instituted, established, or fixed, as a law, habit, or custom.
  • Institute The act of instituting; institution. "Water sanctified by Christ's institute ."
  • Institute (Scots Law) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
  • Institute 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."
  • Institute To ground or establish in principles and rudiments; to educate; to instruct. "If children were early instituted , knowledge would insensibly insinuate itself."
  • Institute (Eccl. Law) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.
  • Institute To nominate; to appoint. "We institute your Grace
    To be our regent in these parts of France."
  • Institute 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."
  • Institute To set up; to establish; to ordain; as, to institute laws, rules, etc.
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• Interesting fact: As artists and traders in medieval cities began to form organizations, they instituted tough initiation ceremonies. For example, journeymen in Bergen, Norway, were shoved down a chimney, thrown three times into the sea, and soundly whipped.
• • institute To set up; establish; put into form and operation; set afoot: as, to institute laws, rules, or regulations; to institute a government or a court; to institute a suit or an investigation.
  • institute To establish in an office; appoint; in ecclesiastical use, to assign to a spiritual charge; invest with the cure of souls: used absolutely, or followed by to or into.
  • institute To ground or establish in principles; educate; instruct.
  • institute Instituted; established.
  • n institute An established principle, rule, or law; a settled order.
  • n institute plural A collection of established laws, rules, or principles; a book of elements, especially in jurisprudence: as, the Institutes of Justinian; Erskine's “Institutes of the Law of Scotland”; Calvin's “Institutes of the Christian Religion.” The word implies a systematic statement of the law or of the principles of the subject treated, in analytic form, in a single and complete work, as distinguished from a mere compilation or collection, and from a commentary; but it does not necessarily imply that it is established by any formal authority.
  • n institute An established body of persons; an institution; a society or association organized for some specific work, especially of a literary or scientific character: as, a philosophic or educational institute; a mechanics' institute; the Institute of Civil Engineers; the National Institute of France, or specifically the institute (see below).
  • n institute In Scots law, the person to whom the estate is first given in a destination. Thus, where a person executing a settlement dispones his lands to A, whom failing, to B, whom failing, to C, etc., A is termed the institute, and all who follow him in the succession are heirs, or substitutes, as they are also termed.
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• Interesting fact: Brigham Young invented the department store. Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution (ZCMI as it's known to those in Utah) is still in operation in Salt Lake City.
• • v.t Institute in′sti-tūt to set up in: to erect: to originate: to establish: to appoint: to commence: to educate
  • n Institute anything instituted or formally established: established law: precept or principle:
  • n Institute (pl.) a book of precepts, principles, or rules, esp. in jurisprudence: an institution: a literary and philosophical society or association, as the 'Institute of France' (embracing L'Académie Française, L'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, L'Académie des Sciences, L'Académie des Beaux Arts, and L'Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques)
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• Samuel Johnson

  

  “Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.”
• Paul Johnson

  

  “The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.”
• Oliver Wendell Holmes

  

  “The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.”
• Walter Bagehot

  

  “The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.”
• Ralph Waldo Emerson

  

  “An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.”
• James Graham

  

  “Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.”

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