Definition of Institute

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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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Institute Quotations

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

I was the first spokesperson for the Better Hearing Institute in Washington. And that's the message we tried to send out - there is hearing help out there, and the technology and options are amazing.
Norm Crosby

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

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.
David R. Brower

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

So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do.
Alton Brown

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

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.
Kevin Kelly

For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we have this "Celebration" village. Same thing for the Disney Institute. Walt talked about this idea in the very first.
John Hench

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

Institute Translations

institute in Afrikaans is inrigting, instituut
institute in Dutch is gesticht, instituut, inrichting
institute in French is instituez, instituons, instituer, instituent
institute in Latin is instituo
institute in Norwegian is institutt, opprette
institute in Portuguese is instituto
institute in Swedish is instifta, institut

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