Institute

/ˈɪnstɪtjuːt/ · noun

Meaning

An organization founded to promote a cause.

Definitions by Sense

1. An organization founded to promote a cause
2. An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects
3. The building housing such an institution.
4. (obsolete) The act of instituting; institution.
5. (obsolete) That which is instituted, established, or fixed, such as a law, habit, or custom.
6. (law, Scotland) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
7. (transitive) To begin or initiate (something); to found.
8. (obsolete, transitive) To train, instruct.

Example Sentences

I work in a medical research institute.

water sanctified by Christ's institute

They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy.

to make the Stoic institutes thy own

Substitution is the nomination of substituted heirs, who take place, failing the institute.

He instituted the new policy of having children walk through a metal detector to enter school.

And haply institute / A course of learning and ingenious studies.

Whenever any form 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.

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Word Forms

• institutes
• instituting
• instituted

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