institute
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institute¹
- /ˈɪnstɪtjuːt/
- /ˈɪnstɪtuːt/
- /ˈɪnstɪt͡ʃuːt/
Where it comes from
From French institut, from Middle French, from Latin īnstitūtum.
noun 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.
- The act of instituting; institution. water sanctified by Christ's institute
- That which is instituted, established, or fixed, such as a law, habit, or custom. They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy.
- The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation. Substitution is the nomination of substituted heirs, who take place, failing the institute.
institute²
- /ˈɪnstɪtjuːt/
- /ˈɪnstɪtuːt/
- /ˈɪnstɪt͡ʃuːt/
Where it comes from
From Middle English, from Latin īnstitūtus, past participle of īnstituō (“to set up, place upon, purpose, begin, institute”), from in (“in, on”) + statuō (“set up, establish”).
verb institutes · instituting · instituted
- To begin or initiate (something); to found. He instituted the new policy of having children walk through a metal detector to enter school.
- To train, instruct. 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.
- To nominate; to appoint. We institute your Grace / To be our regent in these parts of France.
- To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls. a writ issued to the bishop, to institute the clerk of that patron
adjective
- Established; organized; founded. They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and institute, very few to suffice.
