institutes

Noun

institute (plural institutes)

1. An organization founded to promote a cause
   • I work in a medical research institute.
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.
   • water sanctified by Christ's institute1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC
5. (obsolete) That which is instituted, established, or fixed, such as a law, habit, or custom.
   • They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy.1837, Robert Huish, The History of the Life and Reign of William IV, the Reform Monarch of England
6. (Scotland) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
   • Substitution is the nomination of substituted heirs, who take place, failing the institute.1681, Viscount Stair, The Institutions of the Law of Scotland

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