We institute your Grace To be our regent in these parts of France.
Shak.
4. To begin; to commence; to set on foot; as, to institute an inquiry;
to institute a suit.
And haply institute A course of learning and ingenious studies.
Shak.
5. To ground or establish in principles and rudiments; to educate; to
instruct. [Obs.]
If children were early instituted, knowledge would insensibly
insinuate itself.
Dr. H. More.
6. (Eccl. Law) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or
the care of souls. Blackstone.
Syn. -- To originate; begin; commence; establish; found; erect;
organize; appoint; ordain.
In"sti*tute, n. [L. institutum: cf. F. institut. See Institute, v. t. &
a.]
1. The act of instituting; institution. [Obs.] "Water sanctified by
Christ's institute." Milton.
2. That which is instituted, established, or fixed, as a law, habit, or
custom. Glover.
3. 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.
They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy.
Burke.
To make the Stoics' institutes thy own.
Dryden.
4. 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.
5. (Scots Law) The person to whom an estate is first given by
destination or limitation. Tomlins.
Institutes of medicine, theoretical medicine; that department of
medical science which attempts to account philosophically for the
various phenomena of health as well as of disease; physiology applied
to the practice of medicine. Dunglison.