institute

English Online Dictionary. What means institute‎? What does institute mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnstɪt(j)uːt/, /ˈɪnstɪt͡ʃuːt/

Etymology 1

From French institut, from Middle French, from Latin īnstitūtum.

Noun

institute (plural institutes)

1. An organization founded to promote a cause

2. An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects
3. The building housing such an institution.
4. (obsolete) The act of instituting; institution.
5. (obsolete) That which is instituted, established, or fixed, such as a law, habit, or custom.
6. (law, Scotland) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English, from Latin īnstitūtus, past participle of īnstituō (“I 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)

1. (transitive) To begin or initiate (something); to found.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To train, instruct.
3. To nominate; to appoint.
4. (ecclesiastical, law) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.

Translations

Adjective

institute (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Established; organized; founded.

Related terms

• institution
• institutional

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

īnstitūte

1. vocative masculine singular of īnstitūtus

References

• "institute", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)