Definition of Institute

Institute

Established; organized; founded.

To set up; to establish; to ordain; as, to institute laws, rules, etc.

To originate and establish; to found; to organize; as, to institute a court, or a society.

To nominate; to appoint.

To begin; to commence; to set on foot; as, to institute an inquiry; to institute a suit.

To ground or establish in principles and rudiments; to educate; to instruct.

To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.

The act of instituting; institution.

That which is instituted, established, or fixed, as a law, habit, or custom.

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.

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.

The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
Thomas Sowell

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.
Joseph Wood Krutch

We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us access to materials. And the biographies, there are four or five, ranging from very poor to excellent.
Liam Neeson

And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me.
Liam Neeson

Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.
Jim Henson

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
Hilaire Belloc

We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute.
Jeff Ament

We must work to ensure that the Nevada Cancer Institute continues to receive the dollars necessary to make it a vibrant source of research and clinical assistance for cancer victims throughout the state of Nevada and the nation.
Jon Porter

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.
Patrick Stewart