institute
- to set up; establish; organize: to institute a government.
- to inaugurate; initiate; start: to institute a new course in American literature.
- to set in operation: to institute a lawsuit.
- to bring into use or practice: to institute laws.
- to establish in an office or position.
- Ecclesiastical. to assign to or invest with a spiritual charge, as of a parish.
- a society or organization for carrying on a particular work, as of a literary, scientific, or educational character.
- the building occupied by such a society.
- Education.
- an institution, generally beyond the secondary school level, devoted to instruction in technical subjects, usually separate but sometimes organized as a part of a university.
- a unit within a university organized for advanced instruction and research in a relatively narrow field of subject matter.
- a short instructional program set up for a special group interested in a specialized field or subject.
- an established principle, law, custom, or organization.
- institutes,
- an elementary textbook of law designed for beginners.
- (initial capital letter)Also called Institutes of Justinian.an elementary treatise on Roman law in four books, forming one of the four divisions of the Corpus Juris Civilis.
- something instituted.
Origin of institute
Related Words for reinstitute
regain, continue, reopen, restart, proceed, renew, reestablish, revive, restore, resume, reinstate, repossess, recoup, retake, recapitulate, recommence, reassume, reoccupy, reinstituteExamples from the Web for reinstitute
Historical Examples of reinstitute
The proposal of M. de Laveleye to reinstitute a national dress is, for this reason, a foolish and inartistic one.
Enough of the practice and of the traditions is left to make it an easy task to reinstitute all the important parts of the custom.
Domesticated AnimalsNathaniel Southgate Shaler
It seems likely that these were endeavours to reinstitute ancient privileges rather than to create new.
The Customs of Old EnglandF. J. Snell
institute
- to organize; establish
- to initiateto institute a practice
- to establish in a position or office; induct
- (foll by in or into) to install (a clergyman) in a church
- an organization founded for particular work, such as education, promotion of the arts, or scientific research
- the building where such an organization is situated
- something instituted, esp a rule, custom, or precedent
Word Origin for institute
Word Origin and History for reinstitute
institute
1510s, "purpose, design," from institute (v.). From 1540s as "an established law." The sense of "organization, society" is from 1828, borrowed from French Institut national des Sciences et des Arts, established 1795 to replace the royal academies, from Latin institutum, neuter past participle of instituere.
institute
early 14c., "to establish in office, appoint," from Latin institutus, past participle of instituere "to set up," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + statuere "establish, to cause to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand," with derivatives meaning "place or thing that is standing" (see stet). General sense of "set up, found, introduce" first attested late 15c. Related: Instituted; instituting.