Institute

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  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To establish, organize, or introduce: synonym: establish.
  • transitive verb. To initiate; begin.
  • transitive verb. To establish or invest (someone) in an office or position.
  • noun. An organization founded to promote a cause.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An educational institution, especially one for the instruction of technical subjects.
  • noun. The building or buildings housing such an institution.
  • noun. A usually short, intensive workshop or seminar on a specific subject.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A principle or rudiment of a particular subject.
  • noun. A digest of or commentary on such principles or rudiments, especially a legal abstract.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Instituted; established.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • To ground or establish in principles; educate; instruct.
  • noun. An established principle, rule, or law; a settled order.
  • noun. 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.”
  • noun. 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).
  • noun. In Scots law, the person to whom the estate is first given in a destination.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Established; organized; founded.
  • transitive verb. To set up; to establish; to ordain
  • transitive verb. To originate and establish; to found; to organize.
  • transitive verb. To nominate; to appoint.
  • transitive verb. To begin; to commence; to set on foot
  • transitive verb. To ground or establish in principles and rudiments; to educate; to instruct.
  • transitive verb. To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.
  • noun. The act of instituting; institution.
  • noun. That which is instituted, established, or fixed, as a law, habit, or custom.
  • noun. 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. Cf. Digest, n.
  • noun. An institution; a society established for the promotion of learning, art, science, etc.; a college; ; The Massachusetts Institute of Technology; also, a building owned or occupied by such an institute.
  • noun. The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
  • noun. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An organization founded to promote a cause
  • noun. An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects
  • noun. The building housing such an institution
  • verb. To begin or initiate (something).
  • verb. To train, instruct.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. set up or lay the groundwork for
  • noun. an association organized to promote art or science or education
  • verb. advance or set forth in court
  • Word Usage
    "The thing that disturbs me most about this institute is they equate legal abortions with safe abortions, and they equate illegal abortions with unsafe abortions."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    association  create  make  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Schule  academy  admit  alliance  appoint  
    variant
    digest  
    verb-form