Definition of institution

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Institution (n.) The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school..

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Visitor :: Visitor () A superior, or a person lawfully appointed for the purpose, who makes formal visits of inspection to a corporation or an institution. See Visit, v. t., 2, and Visitation, n., 2..
Policy :: Policy (n.) The method by which any institution is administered; system of management; course.
Friend :: Friend (n.) One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution..
President :: President (n.) The chief officer of a corporation, company, institution, society, or the like..
Christendom :: Christendom (n.) That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands..
Churchdom :: Churchdom (n.) The institution, government, or authority of a church..
Schooling :: Schooling (n.) Instruction in school; tuition; education in an institution of learning; act of teaching.
Grace :: Grace (n.) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree..
Mont De Piete :: Mont de piete () One of certain public pawnbroking establishments which originated in Italy in the 15th century, the object of which was to lend money at a low rate of interest to poor people in need; -- called also mount of piety. The institution has been adopted in other countries, as in Spain and France. See Lombard-house..
Organize :: Organize (v. t.) To arrange or constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize; to get into working order; -- applied to products of the human intellect, or to human institutions and undertakings, as a science, a government, an army, a war, etc..
Orphanage :: Orphanage (n.) An institution or asylum for the care of orphans.
Ordinary :: Ordinary (n.) That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered a settled establishment or institution..
Freemasonry :: Freemasonry (n.) The institutions or the practices of freemasons.
Expel :: Expel (v. t.) To cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like; as, to expel a student or member..
Collegian :: Collegian (n.) A member of a college, particularly of a literary institution so called; a student in a college..
Institutional :: Institutional (a.) Elementary; rudimental.
Free :: Free (superl.) Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc..
Rustication :: Rustication (n.) The act of rusticating, or the state of being rusticated; specifically, the punishment of a student for some offense, by compelling him to leave the institution for a time..
Foundation :: Foundation (n.) That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity..
Permanency :: Permanency (n.) The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in the same state or place; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature..
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