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Definition of Institute

1. Verb. Set up or lay the groundwork for. "Establish a new department"

2. Noun. An association organized to promote art or science or education.

3. Verb. Advance or set forth in court. "Institute proceedings"

Definition of Institute

1. p. a. Established; organized; founded.

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

3. n. The act of instituting; institution.

Definition of Institute

1. Noun. An organization founded to promote a cause ¹

2. Noun. An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects ¹

3. Noun. The building housing such an institution ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To begin or initiate (something). ¹

5. Verb. (obsolete transitive) To train, instruct. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Institute

1. [v -TUTED, -TUTING, -TUTES]

Medical Definition of Institute

1. 1. The act of instituting; institution. "Water sanctified by Christ's institute." 2. That which is instituted, established, or fixed, as a law, habit, or custom. 3. Hence: An elementary and necessary principle; a precept, maxim, or rule, recognised as established and authoritative; usually in the plural, a collection of such principles and precepts; especially, a comprehensive summary of legal principles and decisions; as, the Institutes of Justinian; Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England. Cf. Digest, "They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy." (Burke) "To make the Stoics' institutes thy own." (Dryden) 4. 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. 5. The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation. Institutes of medicine, theoretical medicine; that department of medical science which attempts to account philosophically for the various phenomena of health as well as of disease; physiology applied to the practice of medicine. Origin: L. Institutum: cf. F. Institut. See Institute, &. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Institute

instimulates instimulating instimulation instimulations instinct instinct(p) instinction instinctive instinctive drift instinctive reflex

instinctively instinctivity instincts instinctual instinctually institute (current term) institute of medicine instituted instituter instituters

institutes instituting institution institutional institutional advancement institutional framework institutional management teams institutional practice institutional racism institutionalisation

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