Institutes

¹ British  

/ ˈɪnstɪˌtjuːts /

plural noun

1. an introduction to legal study in ancient Rome, compiled by order of Justinian and divided into four books forming part of the Corpus Juris Civilis

2. short for Institutes of the Christian Religion , the book by Calvin, completed in 1536 and constituting the basic statement of the Reformed faith, that repudiates papal authority and postulates the doctrines of justification by faith alone and predestination

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institutes ² British  

/ ˈɪnstɪˌtjuːts /

plural noun

1. a digest or summary, esp of laws

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Example Sentences

The center is an interdisciplinary consortium created with support from a 2007 National Institutes of Health Common Fund initiative that studies the biology of stress, health behaviors, and their effects on chronic mental and physical illness.

From Science Daily

The study, "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly," was supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

From Science Daily

The new report, published in the peer-reviewed academic journal Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy, involved medical experts and researchers in dementia from the National Institutes of Health in Baltimore, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, and the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, S.C., plus the National University of Singapore, the University of Exeter and King’s College London in the U.K.,

From MarketWatch

The study, partly funded by the National Institutes of Health, was published March 4 in Science Translational Medicine.

From Science Daily

Unpaid care by family caregivers amounts to the equivalent of about $100 billion, according to the National Institutes of Health.

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