An organization founded to promote a cause
I work in a medical research institute.
An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects
The building housing such an institution.
To begin or initiate (something); to found.
He instituted the new policy of having children walk through a metal detector to enter school.
To train, instruct.
Established; organized; founded.
They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and institute, very few to suffice.
From French institut, from Middle French, from Latin īnstitūtum.
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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.
To nominate; to appoint.
We institute your Grace / To be our regent in these parts of France.