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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Institute :: Institute (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..
Garter :: Garter (n.) The distinguishing badge of the highest order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the Order of the Garter, instituted by Edward III.; also, the Order itself..
Institutist :: Institutist (n.) A writer or compiler of, or a commentator on, institutes..
Institute :: 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..
Institute :: Institute (p. a.) Established; organized; founded.
Institute :: Institute (a.) That which is instituted, established, or fixed, as a law, habit, or custom..
Justinian :: Justinian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Institutes or laws of the Roman Justinian.
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..
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..
Institutor :: Institutor (n.) One who institutes, founds, ordains, or establishes..
Institute :: Institute (v. t.) To nominate; to appoint.
Free :: Free (superl.) Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc..
Instituter :: Instituter (n.) An institutor.
Imparsonee :: Imparsonee (a.) Presented, instituted, and inducted into a rectory, and in full possession..
Appeal :: Appeal (v. t.) An accusation; a process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offense against the public..
Appellor :: Appellor (n.) The person who institutes an appeal, or prosecutes another for a crime..
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..
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..
Purim :: Purim (n.) A Jewish festival, called also the Feast of Lots, instituted to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews from the machinations of Haman..
Libelant :: Libelant (n.) One who libels; one who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court.
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