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INSTITUTE (from See also:Lat. instituere, to establish or set up) , something established, an institution, particularly any society established for an See also:artistic, educational, scientific or social purpose. The word seems to have been first applied in See also:English to such institutions for the See also:advancement of See also:science or See also:art as were modelled on the See also:great See also:French society, the Institut See also:National (see See also:ACADEMIES). It is thus the name of such See also:societies as the Royal Institute of See also:British Architects, the Imperial Institute and the like. It is extended to similar organizations, particularly to educational, on a smaller or See also:local See also:scale, such as See also:Mechanics' or Workmen's Institutes, and is sometimes applied to charitable See also:foundations. In the See also:United States the word is, in a particular sense, applied to periodic classes giving instruction in the principles of See also:education to the teachers of elementary and See also:district See also:schools. The See also:term " institute " is often used to translate the Lat. institutio, in the sense of a See also:treatise on the elements of any subject, and particularly of See also:law or See also:jurisprudence; thus the compilation of the principles of See also:Roman law, made by See also:order of the See also:emperor Justinian, is known as Justinian's Institutes, and hence See also:Coke's treatise on English law, of which the first See also:part is better known as Coke upon See also:Littleton, is called The Institute. The same See also:title is See also:borne by See also:Calvin's See also:work on the elements of the See also:Christian See also:doctrine.

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