Definition of institute

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Institute (a.) 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..

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Institutor :: Institutor (n.) One who institutes, founds, ordains, or establishes..
Appellor :: Appellor (n.) The person who institutes an appeal, or prosecutes another for a crime..
Prosecute :: Prosecute (v. i.) To institute and carry on a legal prosecution; as, to prosecute for public offenses..
Paulist :: Paulist (n.) A member of The Institute of the Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, founded in 1858 by the Rev. I. T. Hecker of New York. The majority of the members were formerly Protestants..
Institute :: Institute (v. t.) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls..
Institute :: Institute (n.) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
Instituted :: Instituted (imp. & p. p.) of Institut.
Institute :: Institute (v. t.) To originate and establish; to found; to organize; as, to institute a court, or a society..
Passover :: Passover (n.) A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb..
Instituter :: Instituter (n.) An institutor.
Institution :: Institution (n.) That which institutes or instructs; a textbook; a system of elements or rules; an institute.
Libelant :: Libelant (n.) One who libels; one who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court.
Institute :: Institute (v. t.) To nominate; to appoint.
Crescent :: Crescent (n.) Any one of three orders of knighthood; the first instituted by Charles I., king of Naples and Sicily, in 1268; the second by Rene of Anjou, in 1448; and the third by the Sultan Selim III., in 1801, to be conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services..
Erect :: Erect (v. t.) To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
Appeal :: Appeal (v. t.) To charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime; as, to appeal a person of felony..
Institutional :: Institutional (a.) Instituted by authority.
Lazarite :: Lazarite (n.) One of the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission, a religious institute founded by Vincent de Paul in 1624, and popularly called Lazarists or Lazarites from the College of St. Lazare in Paris, which was occupied by them until 1792..
Superintellectual :: Superinstitution (n.) One institution upon another, as when A is instituted and admitted to a benefice upon a title, and B instituted and admitted upon the presentation of another..
Exchequer :: Exchequer (v. t.) To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Exchequer.
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