institute

institute is a 9-letter English word with 15 senses as transitive verb, adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Established; organized; founded. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. participial adjective. Established; organized; founded.
2. transitive verb. To set up; to establish; to ordain; as, to institute laws, rules, etc.
3. transitive verb. To originate and establish; to found; to organize; as, to institute a court, or a society.
4. transitive verb. To nominate; to appoint.
5. transitive verb. To begin; to commence; to set on foot; as, to institute an inquiry; to institute a suit.
6. transitive verb. To ground or establish in principles and rudiments; to educate; to instruct.
7. transitive verb. To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.
8. adjective. The act of instituting; institution.
9. adjective. That which is instituted, established, or fixed, as a law, habit, or custom.
10. adjective. Hence: An elementary and necessary principle; a precept, maxim, or rule, recognized as established and authoritative; usually in the plural, a collection of such principles and precepts; esp., a comprehensive summary of legal principles and decisions; as, the Institutes of Justinian; Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England. Cf. Digest, n.
11. noun. An institution; a society established for the promotion of learning, art, science, etc.; a college; as, the Institute of Technology; also, a building owned or occupied by such an institute; as, the Cooper Institute.
12. noun. The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
13. noun. an association organized to promote art or science or education
14. verb. advance or set forth in court, "institute proceedings"

    "bring charges"

    Synonyms: bring

15. verb. set up or lay the groundwork for

    "establish a new department"

    Synonyms: constitute, establish, found, plant

Synonyms

bring, constitute, establish, found, plant

Common word forms

instituted, instituter, institutes, instituting

Words from these letters

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