Institution
[ɪnstɪ'tjuːʃ(ə)n] or [,ɪnstɪ'tuʃən]
Definition
(noun.) an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated.
(noun.) a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society; 'the institution of marriage'; 'the institution of slavery'; 'he had become an institution in the theater'.
(noun.) an organization founded and united for a specific purpose.
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Definition
(n.) The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school.
(n.) Instruction; education.
(n.) The act or ceremony of investing a clergyman with the spiritual part of a benefice, by which the care of souls is committed to his charge.
(n.) That which instituted or established
(n.) Established order, method, or custom; enactment; ordinance; permanent form of law or polity.
(n.) An established or organized society or corporation; an establishment, especially of a public character, or affecting a community; a foundation; as, a literary institution; a charitable institution; also, a building or the buildings occupied or used by such organization; as, the Smithsonian Institution.
(n.) Anything forming a characteristic and persistent feature in social or national life or habits.
(n.) That which institutes or instructs; a textbook; a system of elements or rules; an institute.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Establishing, founding, foundation, enactment.[2]. Establishment, organized society.[3]. Investiture.
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Examples
- On November 14, 1888, President Carnot opened the institution, which was soon to witness the triumphs of Roux, Yersin, Metchnikoff, and other disciples of Pasteur. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It was now reduced and confined to the original purpose of its institution. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I had never heard of the institution, and my face must have proclaimed as much, for Sherlock Holmes pulled out his watch. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- To encourage tillage, by keeping up the price of corn, even in the most plentiful years, was the avowed end of the institution. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Of the public Works and Institution which are necessary for facilitating particular Branches of Commerce. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Each interest is acknowledged as a kind of fixed institution to which something in the course of study must correspond. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- She says Lydgate is indefatigable, and is making a fine thing of Bulstrode's institution. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Why, she was called in the Institution, Harriet Beadle--an arbitrary name, of course. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The expense of a riding school is so great, that in most places it is a public institution. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The chief butler was the next magnificent institution of the day. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Marriage was a public institution: and the women were educated by the State, and sang and danced in public with the men. Plato. The Republic.
- Have those public endowments contributed in general, to promote the end of their institution? Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Instead of being present, the life and soul of that struggling Institution, he had engaged to make one of a party of worldlings at a morning concert! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Reade, were shown at the London institution, which were described to have been produced by an infusion of galls, and fixed with hyposulphite of soda. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The institution soon manifested its utility; was imitated by other towns and in other provinces. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But conditions change whether statesmen wish them to or not; society must have new institutions to fit new wants, and all that rigid conservatism can do is to make the transitions difficult. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We picture political institutions as mechanically constructed contrivances within which the nation's life is contained and compelled to approximate some abstract idea of justice or liberty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Such links of sentiment and association were of little avail against the intense separatism of the Greek political institutions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But this complement may be much inferior to what, with other laws and institutions, the nature of its soil, climate, and situation, might admit of. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The Greeks were conquered by the Romans in 146 B.C,but before tha t time Roman life and institutions had been touched by Hellenic culture. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Institutions change as history shows; but their change, the rise and fall of states, is the work of the world-spirit. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The quintuple grade is designed more particularly for hotels, restaurants, clubs and other institutions where the wear is especially severe. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- What was called social life, existing institutions, were too false and corrupt to be intrusted with this work. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- One of those causes appeared to be the preference given, by the institutions of Mr. Colbert, to the industry of the towns above that of the country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Of the Expense of public Works and public Institutions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The influence, besides, of the ancient institutions, was much more universal. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It meant a rebellion against existing social institutions, customs, and ideals (See ante, p. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The object of the public works and institutions above mentioned, is to facilitate commerce in general. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- According to Hegel, existing institutions are its effective actual representatives. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The ruler may impose the laws and institutions which we have been describing, and the citizens may possibly be willing to obey them? Plato. The Republic.
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