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    Institutes
    plural noun
    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
  • institutes
    institutes
    plural noun
    a digest or summary, esp of laws

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

institutes 2 British  
/ ˈɪnstɪˌtjuːts /

plural noun

  1. a digest or summary, esp of laws

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The five institutes’ revised outlook compared with a forecast of 4.8% they made last fall.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2022

And whereas other institutes’ annual budgets go through the NIH director’s office, NCI submits an aspirational budget proposal directly to the president.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 4, 2022

The majority of the institutes’ activity may be benign, and it’s difficult to determine how much self-censorship participating institutions engage in, Smith said.

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2018

“Thus, anatomists were asked about the identity and fate of the bodies remaining in their institutes’ storage spaces,” Hildebrandt writes.

From Slate • Dec. 10, 2017

Dr. Amy P. Patterson, the institutes’ associate director for biosecurity, who presented the policy, called loss of funding “a fairly large stick.”

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2014

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