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Institution

noun

An organization founded and united for a specific purpose. Synonym: establishment.

An establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated.

A custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society. "The institution of slavery" , "He had become an institution in the theater"

The act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new. Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, introduction, origination. "The foundation of a new scientific society"

A hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person. Synonyms: asylum, insane asylum, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital.

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"Institution" Quotes from Famous Books

... but at first he might be startled; though he never hesitated to introduce any alterations which were improvements, he might possibly look upon fagging without that reverence which it deserved as a time-honoured institution. He could not fail to acknowledge that fagging was a very good thing; but then his school was not a public school, however first-rate it might be as a private establishment; and he might not wish to make it ...

— Ernest Bracebridge - School Days • William H. G. Kingston

... most faithful bands were placed under the command of praefects and centurions, and severely trained in the arts of Roman discipline; but the far greater part retained those arms, to which the nature of their country, or their early habits of life, more peculiarly adapted them. By this institution, each legion, to whom a certain proportion of auxiliaries was allotted, contained within itself every species of lighter troops, and of missile weapons; and was capable of encountering every nation, with ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1 • Edward Gibbon

... the "water-doctor" has always been an institution in the east and he has lately revived in Europe especially at the German baths ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton

... responsible government as applied to every other head of a Department, and made the subordinate agent of a Board which I have originated, and the members of which I have had the honour to recommend for appointment; when I see myself officially severed from a Normal School Institution which I have devised, and every feature and detail of which are universally commended, even to the individual capacities of the masters whom I have sought out and recommended; when I see myself placed in a position, to an entirely novel system of education at large, in which ...

— The Story of My Life - Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada • Egerton Ryerson

... remains unexecuted, and it is feared that the recently-issued regulations, professedly for its execution, are wholly inadequate to any practical result in favor of emancipation, if they be not really in the interest of the slaveholder and of the continuance of the institution of slavery." ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 • Various

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