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noun

Institution n.

The act or process of instituting; as:

(a)

Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school. "The institution of God's law is described as being established by solemn injunction."

(b)

Instruction; education. (Obs.)

(c)

(Eccl. Law) The act or ceremony of investing a clergyman with the spiritual part of a benefice, by which the care of souls is committed to his charge.

That which instituted or established; as:

(a)

Established order, method, or custom; enactment; ordinance; permanent form of law or polity. "The nature of our people, Our city's institutions."

(b)

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.

(c)

Anything forming a characteristic and persistent feature in social or national life or habits. "We ordered a lunch (the most delightful of English institutions, next to dinner) to be ready against our return."

That which institutes or instructs; a textbook; a system of elements or rules; an institute. (Obs.) "There is another manuscript, of above three hundred years old,... being an institution of physic."

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... 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

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... 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

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... 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

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... 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

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... 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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