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 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.
Institute
(In"sti*tute), n. [L. institutum: cf. F. institut. See Institute, v. t. & 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, n.
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; 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.
Instituter
(In"sti*tu`ter) n. An institutor. [R.]
Institution
(In`sti*tu"tion) n. [L. institutio: cf. F. institution.]
1. The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a
school.
The institution of God's law is described as being established by solemn injunction.
Hooker. (b) Instruction; education. [Obs.] Bentley. (c) (Eccl. Law) The act or ceremony of investing a clergyman
with the spiritual part of a benefice, by which the care of souls is committed to his charge. Blackstone.
