1. institute - Noun
2. institute - Adjective
3. institute - Verb
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 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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions. John Rawls
They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man. Edmund Burke
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
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize. Sinclair Lewis
I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology. Frederick Reines
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 (editor)