English Dictionary

institute

/ˈɪnstɪt(j)uːt/

verb

(transitive) To begin or initiate (something); to found. / (obsolete, transitive) To train, instruct. / To nominate; to appoint.

The professor will institute a new research program.

意味（1）

(transitive) To begin or initiate (something); to found.

He instituted the new policy of having children walk through a metal detector to enter school.

意味（2）

(obsolete, transitive) To train, instruct.

Publius was the first that ever instituted the Souldier to manage his armes by dexteritie and skil, and joyned art unto vertue, not for the use of private contentions, but for the wars and Roman peoples quarrels.

意味（3）

To nominate; to appoint.

We institute your Grace / To be our regent in these parts of France.

意味（4）

(ecclesiastical, law) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.

a writ issued to the bishop, to institute the clerk of that patron