institute
See also: Institute
English
Pronunciation
- (no yod-coalescence): IPA(key): /ˈɪnstɪtjuːt/Category:English 3-syllable words#INSTITUTECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#INSTITUTE
- (yod-dropping): IPA(key): /ˈɪnstɪtuːt/Category:English 3-syllable words#INSTITUTECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#INSTITUTE
- (yod-coalescence): IPA(key): /ˈɪnstɪt͡ʃuːt/Category:English 3-syllable words#INSTITUTECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#INSTITUTE
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#INSTITUTEAudio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: in‧sti‧tute
Etymology 1
From FrenchCategory:English terms derived from French#INSTITUTE institut, from Middle FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Middle French#INSTITUTE, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#INSTITUTE īnstitūtum.
Noun
institute (plural institutes)Category:English lemmas#INSTITUTECategory:English nouns#INSTITUTECategory:English countable nouns#INSTITUTECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#INSTITUTECategory:Pages with entries#INSTITUTECategory:Pages with 2 entries#INSTITUTE
- An organization founded to promote a cause
- I work in a medical research institute.Category:English terms with usage examples#INSTITUTE
- An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects
- The building housing such an institution.
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#INSTITUTE) The act of instituting; institution.
- 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC:
- water sanctified by Christ's instituteCategory:English terms with quotations#INSTITUTE
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#INSTITUTE) That which is instituted, established, or fixed, such as a law, habit, or custom.
- 1837, Robert Huish, The History of the Life and Reign of William IV, the Reform Monarch of England,:
- They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy.Category:English terms with quotations#INSTITUTE
- 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Fifth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
- to make the Stoic institutes thy ownCategory:English terms with quotations#INSTITUTE
- (lawCategory:en:Law#INSTITUTE, ScotlandCategory:Scottish English#INSTITUTE) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
- 1681, Viscount Stair, The Institutions of the Law of Scotland:
- Substitution is the nomination of substituted heirs, who take place, failing the institute.Category:English terms with quotations#INSTITUTE
Derived terms
Translations
organization founded to promote a cause
college
building
Etymology 2
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#INSTITUTE, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#INSTITUTE īnstitūtus, past participle of īnstituō (“to set up, place upon, purpose, begin, institute”), from in (“in, on”) + statuō (“set up, establish”).
Verb
institute (third-person singular simple present institutes, present participle instituting, simple past and past participle instituted)Category:English lemmas#INSTITUTECategory:English verbs#INSTITUTECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#INSTITUTECategory:Pages with entries#INSTITUTECategory:Pages with 2 entries#INSTITUTE
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#INSTITUTE) To begin or initiate (something); to found.
- He instituted the new policy of having children walk through a metal detector to enter school.Category:English terms with usage examples#INSTITUTE
- c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- And haply institute / A course of learning and ingenious studies.Category:English terms with quotations#INSTITUTE
- 1776, Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence:
- Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government.Category:English terms with quotations#INSTITUTE
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#INSTITUTE, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#INSTITUTE) To train, instruct.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- Publius was the first that ever instituted the Souldier to manage his armes by dexteritie and skil, and joyned art unto vertue, not for the use of private contentions, but for the wars and Roman peoples quarrels.Category:English terms with quotations#INSTITUTE
- a. 1684, author unknown, Gentleman's Calling:
- If children were early instituted, knowledge would insensibly insinuate itself.Category:English terms with quotations#INSTITUTE
- To nominate; to appoint.
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
- We institute your Grace / To be our regent in these parts of France.Category:English terms with quotations#INSTITUTE
- (ecclesiasticalCategory:English ecclesiastical terms#INSTITUTE, lawCategory:en:Law#INSTITUTE) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
- a writ issued to the bishop, to institute the clerk of that patronCategory:English terms with quotations#INSTITUTE
Derived terms
Translations
to begin or initiate something
Adjective
institute (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#INSTITUTECategory:English adjectives#INSTITUTECategory:English uncomparable adjectives#INSTITUTECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#INSTITUTECategory:Pages with entries#INSTITUTECategory:Pages with 2 entries#INSTITUTE
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#INSTITUTE) Established; organized; founded.
- 1551, Thomas More, “(please specify the Internet Archive page)”, in Raphe Robynson [i.e., Ralph Robinson], transl., A Fruteful, and Pleasaunt Worke of the Best State of a Publyque Weale, and of the Newe Yle Called Utopia: […], London: […] [Steven Mierdman for] Abraham Vele, […], →OCLC:
- They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and institute, very few to suffice.Category:English terms with quotations#INSTITUTE
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Further reading
- “institute”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “institute”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “institute”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Latin
Participle
īnstitūteCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#INSTITUTECategory:Latin participle forms#INSTITUTECategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#INSTITUTECategory:Pages with entries#INSTITUTECategory:Pages with 2 entries#INSTITUTE
References
- "institute", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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