Definition of institution

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Institution (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..

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Correctional :: Correctional (a.) Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution..
Superintellectual :: Superinstitution (n.) One institution upon another, as when A is instituted and admitted to a benefice upon a title, and B instituted and admitted upon the presentation of another..
Institution :: Institution (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..
Outsider :: Outsider (n.) One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling..
Regent :: Regent (a.) One of a governing board; a trustee or overseer; a superintendent; a curator; as, the regents of the Smithsonian Institution..
Utilitarianism :: Utilitarianism (n.) The doctrine that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political institutions.
Smithsonian :: Smithsonian (n.) The Smithsonian Institution.
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..
Monastical :: Monastical (a.) Of or pertaining to monasteries, or to their occupants, rules, etc., as, monastic institutions or rules..
Mortification :: Mortification (n.) A gift to some charitable or religious institution; -- nearly synonymous with mortmain.
Institution :: Institution (n.) Anything forming a characteristic and persistent feature in social or national life or habits.
Institution :: Institution (n.) That which instituted or establishe.
Charity :: Charity (n.) A charitable institution, or a gift to create and support such an institution; as, Lady Margaret's charity..
Destructionist :: Destructionist (n.) One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing institutions; a destructive.
Presentation :: Presentation (n.) The act of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice; the right of presenting a clergyman.
Schooling :: Schooling (n.) Instruction in school; tuition; education in an institution of learning; act of teaching.
Nihilist :: Nihilist (n.) A member of a secret association (esp. in Russia), which is devoted to the destruction of the present political, religious, and social institutions..
Strength :: Strength (n.) That quality which tends to secure results; effective power in an institution or enactment; security; validity; legal or moral force; logical conclusiveness; as, the strength of social or legal obligations; the strength of law; the strength of public opinion; strength of evidence; strength of argument..
Freemasonry :: Freemasonry (n.) The institutions or the practices of freemasons.
Foundation :: Foundation (n.) That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity..
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