[in-sti-toot, -tyoot] 
verb, -tut⋅ed, -tut⋅ing, noun | 1. | to set up; establish; organize: to institute a government. |
| 2. | to inaugurate; initiate; start: to institute a new course in American literature. |
| 3. | to set in operation: to institute a lawsuit. |
| 4. | to bring into use or practice: to institute laws. |
| 5. | to establish in an office or position. |
| 6. | Ecclesiastical. to assign to or invest with a spiritual charge, as of a parish. |
| 7. | a society or organization for carrying on a particular work, as of a literary, scientific, or educational character. |
| 8. | the building occupied by such a society. |
| 9. | Education.
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| 10. | an established principle, law, custom, or organization. |
| 11. | institutes,
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| 12. | something instituted. |
stɪˌtut