institute
See also: Institute
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From French institut, from Middle French, from Latin īnstitūtum.
Noun
institute (plural institutes)
- An organization founded to promote a cause
- I work in a medical research institute.
- An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects
- The building housing such an institution
- (obsolete) The act of instituting; institution.
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- water sanctified by Christ's institute
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- (obsolete) That which is instituted, established, or fixed, such as a law, habit, or custom.
- (law, Scotland) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Tomlins to this entry?)
Derived terms
Translations
organization founded to promote a cause
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college
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building
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Etymology 2
From Middle English, from Latin īnstitūtus, past participle of īnstituō (“I set up, place upon, purpose, begin, institute”), from in (“in, on”) + statuō (“set up, establish”).
Verb
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- (transitive) To begin or initiate (something); to found.
- He instituted the new policy of having children walk through a metal detector to enter school.
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- And haply institute / A course of learning and ingenious studies.
- 1776, Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence:
- Whenever any form 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.
- (obsolete, transitive) To train, instruct.
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- Publius was the first that ever instituted the Souldier to manage his armes by dexteritie and skil, and joyned art unto vertue, not for the use of private contentions, but for the wars and Roman peoples quarrels.
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- If children were early instituted, knowledge would insensibly insinuate itself.
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- To nominate; to appoint.
- (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- We institute your Grace / To be our regent in these parts of France.
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- (ecclesiastical, law) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.
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Translations
to begin or initiate something
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Adjective
institute (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Established; organized; founded.
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- They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and institute, very few to suffice.
- (Can we date this quote by Robynson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?) (More's Utopia)
Related terms
Further reading
- “institute”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “institute”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “institute”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Latin
Participle
(deprecated template usage) īnstitūte
References
- institute in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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