Institute, in'-ste-tute, v.a

to set up in; to establish; to ordain; to found; to originate; to educate; to commence; to invest with the spiritual part of a benefice [Eccles.]: s. anything instituted; established law; settled order; precept or principle; a society established for some scientific or literary object; a book of principles, especially in jurisprudence or medicine (L. in, and statuo, to set).