Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of institution is as below...

Institutionary :: Institutionary (a.) Containing the first principles or doctrines; elemental; rudimentary.

Prosecution :: Prosecution (n.) The institution and carrying on of a suit in a court of law or equity, to obtain some right, or to redress and punish some wrong; the carrying on of a judicial proceeding in behalf of a complaining party, as distinguished from defense..

Mohammedan :: Mohammedan (a.) Of or pertaining to Mohammed, or the religion and institutions founded by Mohammed..

Mont De Piete :: Mont de piete () One of certain public pawnbroking establishments which originated in Italy in the 15th century, the object of which was to lend money at a low rate of interest to poor people in need; -- called also mount of piety. The institution has been adopted in other countries, as in Spain and France. See Lombard-house..

Positive :: Positive (a.) Prescribed by express enactment or institution; settled by arbitrary appointment; said of laws.

Institutional :: Institutional (a.) Instituted by authority.

Charitable :: Charitable (a.) Of or pertaining to charity; springing from, or intended for, charity; relating to almsgiving; eleemosynary; as, a charitable institution..

Anti-american :: Anti-American (a.) Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions..

Donative :: Donative (n.) A benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3..

Anthropography :: Anthropography (n.) That branch of anthropology which treats of the actual distribution of the human race in its different divisions, as distinguished by physical character, language, institutions, and customs, in contradistinction to ethnography, which treats historically of the origin and filiation of races and nations..

Abolitionist :: Abolitionist (n.) A person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery..

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..

Christendom :: Christendom (n.) That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands..

Institution :: Institution (n.) That which instituted or establishe.

Friend :: Friend (n.) One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution..

Anglomania :: Anglomania (n.) A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc..

Vacation :: Vacation (n.) The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms; holidays; as, the spring vacation..

Organize :: Organize (v. t.) To arrange or constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize; to get into working order; -- applied to products of the human intellect, or to human institutions and undertakings, as a science, a government, an army, a war, etc..

Constitution :: Constitution (n.) The fundamental, organic law or principles of government of men, embodied in written documents, or implied in the institutions and usages of the country or society; also, a written instrument embodying such organic law, and laying down fundamental rules and principles for the conduct of affairs..

Antiquity :: Antiquity (n.) A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a statue, etc.; an ancient institution. [In this sense, usually in the plural.].

Random Fonts

Most Popular