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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Institution :: Institution (n.) That which instituted or establishe.
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..
Trainband :: Trainband (n.) A band or company of an organized military force instituted by James I. and dissolved by Charles II.; -- afterwards applied to the London militia.
Libelant :: Libelant (n.) One who libels; one who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court.
Institute :: Institute (a.) The act of instituting; institution.
Institute :: Institute (v. t.) To ground or establish in principles and rudiments; to educate; to instruct.
Implead :: Implead (v. t.) To institute and prosecute a suit against, in court; to sue or prosecute at law; hence, to accuse; to impeach..
Information :: Information (v. t.) A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand juri. See Indictment..
Erect :: Erect (v. t.) To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
Institutist :: Institutist (n.) A writer or compiler of, or a commentator on, institutes..
Exchequer :: Exchequer (v. t.) To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Exchequer.
Institutive :: Institutive (a.) Tending or intended to institute; having the power to establish.
Institutor :: Institutor (n.) A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.
Institute :: Institute (n.) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
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..
Institution :: Institution (n.) That which institutes or instructs; a textbook; a system of elements or rules; an institute.
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..
Actor :: Actor (n.) One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.
Ambrosian :: Ambrosian (a.) Of or pertaining to St. Ambrose; as, the Ambrosian office, or ritual, a formula of worship in the church of Milan, instituted by St. Ambrose..
Institute :: Institute (v. t.) To set up; to establish; to ordain; as, to institute laws, rules, etc..
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