Institutionary

Quick meaning: Institutionary is an adjective meaning Relating to an institution or institutions.

Meaning

Relating to an institution or institutions.

More Meanings

1. Containing the first principles or doctrines; rudimentary.

Example Sentences

[…] Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, […]

[…] among the Institutionary rules of youth, [Aristotle] adviseth they might not be permitted to hear Iambicks and Tragedies before they were admitted unto discumbency or lying along with others at their meales.

The second class of rites are memorial in character. As the former were addressed to the gods, so these are chiefly for the benefit of the people. They are didactic, to preserve the myth, or institutionary, to keep alive the discipline and forms of the church.

1917, Albert Bigelow Paine, “Mark Twain—A Biographical Summary” in Mark Twain’s Letters, New York: Gabriel Wells, 1923, Volume I, p. 16, […] he declared he would travel to Mars and back, if necessary, to get that Oxford degree. He appreciated its full meaning—recognition by the world’s foremost institution of learning of the achievements of one who had no learning of the institutionary kind.

Synonyms for institutionary

Depending on context, synonyms include institutional.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include institutional, institutive, monoinstitutional, macroinstitutional, institutionalized, investitural.

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