Institute
Institute (in"sti*tūt) , past participle (adjectival)
[Latin institutus, past participle of instituere to place in, to institute, to instruct; pref. in- in + statuere to cause to stand, to set. See Statute.]
Established; organized; founded. [Obsolete]
They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and institute, very few to suffice.
Institute (in"sti*tūt) , transitive verb
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.
3.
To nominate; to appoint. [Obsolete]
We institute your Grace
To be our regent in these parts of France.
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.
5.
To ground or establish in principles and rudiments; to educate; to instruct. [Obsolete]
If children were early instituted, knowledge would insensibly insinuate itself.
6.
(Ecclesiastical Law) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls. — Blackstone
Institute , noun
[Latin institutum: compare French institut. See Institute, transitive verb & a.]
1.
The act of instituting; institution. [Obsolete]
Water sanctified by Christ's institute.
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. Compare Digest, n.
They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy.
To make the Stoics' institutes thy own.
4.
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.
5.
(Scots Law) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation. — Tomlins
Collocations (1)
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