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.) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
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..
Establish :: Establish (a.) To originate and secure the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; -- said of a colony, a state, or other institutions..
Institution :: Institution (n.) That which instituted or establishe.
Shastra :: Shastra (n.) A treatise for authoritative instruction among the Hindoos; a book of institutes; especially, a treatise explaining the Vedas..
Institutist :: Institutist (n.) A writer or compiler of, or a commentator on, institutes..
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..
Actor :: Actor (n.) One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.
Erect :: Erect (v. t.) To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
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..
Institutive :: Institutive (a.) Tending or intended to institute; having the power to establish.
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..
Institute :: Institute (v. t.) To set up; to establish; to ordain; as, to institute laws, rules, etc..
Institute :: Institute (v. t.) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls..
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.
Institute :: Institute (a.) That which is instituted, established, or fixed, as a law, habit, or custom..
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..
Institute :: Institute (v. t.) To originate and establish; to found; to organize; as, to institute a court, or a society..
Curfew :: Curfew (n.) The ringing of an evening bell, originally a signal to the inhabitants to cover fires, extinguish lights, and retire to rest, -- instituted by William the Conqueror; also, the bell itself..
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..
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