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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Institute \In"sti*tute\, noun [L. institutum: cf. F. institut. See {Institute}, verb (used with an object) & a.]
1. The act of instituting; institution. [Obs.] ''Water sanctified by Christ's institute.'' --Milton.
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. Cf. {Digest}, noun
They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy. --Burke.
To make the Stoics' institutes thy own. --Dryden.
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.
{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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Institute \In"sti*tute\ ([i^]n"st[i^]*t[=u]t), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Instituted} ([i^]n"st[i^]*t[=u]'t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Instituting}.]
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. --Jefferson (Decl. of Indep. ).
3. To nominate; to appoint. [Obs.]
We institute your Grace To be our regent in these parts of France. --Shak.
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. --Shak.
5. To ground or establish in principles and rudiments; to educate; to instruct. [Obs.]
If children were early instituted, knowledge would insensibly insinuate itself. --Dr. H. More.
6. (Eccl. Law) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls. --Blackstone.
Syn: To originate; begin; commence; establish; found; erect; organize; appoint; ordain.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Institute \In"sti*tute\ ([i^]n"st[i^]*t[=u]t), p. a. [L. institutus, p. p. of instituere to place in, to institute, to instruct; pref. in- in + statuere to cause to stand, to set. See {Statute}.] Established; organized; founded. [Obs.]
They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and institute, very few to suffice. --Robynson (More's Utopia).
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
institute
noun: an association organized to promote art or science or education
verb
1: set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new department" [syn: {establish}, {found}, {plant}, {constitute}]
2: avance or set forth in court; "bring charges", "institute proceedings" [syn: {bring}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
89 Moby Thesaurus words for "institute": Schule, academy, alliance, association, author, bear, beget, begin, breed, bring about, bring forth, bring to effect, bring to pass, bring up, broach, cause, christen, commence, conceive, constitute, create, decree, decretum, do, ecole, edict, educational institution, effect, effectuate, engender, escuela, establish, establishment, father, float, form, found, foundation, generate, gestate, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, guild, inaugurate, incept, induct, initiate, install, institution, introduce, launch, law, league, lift up, make, materialize, occasion, ordinance, organization, organize, originate, pioneer, precept, prescript, produce, raise, realize, regulation, ring in, rule, scholastic institution, school, seminary, set afloat, set agoing, set on foot, set up, sire, society, start, start going, start up, statute, teaching institution, turn on, usher in, work
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