Literary notes about institute (AI summary)
In literature, "institute" functions with remarkable versatility, often referring both to established centers of learning or research and to the act of setting something in motion. It appears as the name of scholarly or scientific organizations—ranging from the Anthropological Institute and the Royal Engineer Institute to modern academic and technological centers [1], [2], [3]—and as designations for institutions that shape cultural and intellectual communities, such as the Hampton Institute or the Virginia Military Institute [4], [5]. Equally, authors employ "institute" as a verb to signify the initiation of actions, reforms, or investigations, whether it is to institute a search in a mystery [6], to institute a religious order [7], or even to institute governmental change [8], [9]. This dual usage underscores the word’s dynamic role in both denoting formal organizations and symbolizing the process of establishing new orders and ideas.
- Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 9, pp.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - 290-301.) —— Sketches of Asia in the Thirteenth Century and of Marco Polo's Travels, delivered at Royal Engineer Institute, 18th Nov. 1880.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Marco Polo and da Pisa Rusticiano - The main aim of the Pasteur Institute Library website is to serve the Institute itself and its associated bodies.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert - After hearing of the Hampton Institute, I continued to work for a few months longer in the coal-mine.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington - "Molly McGuire, Fourteen" adds one more tradition to those of the Virginia Military Institute.
— from The Best Short Stories of 1917, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story - I must institute a search and look through the house.
— from The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo - The monk then requested Gargantua to institute his religious order contrary to all others.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais - His father, Henry the Fowler, was elected, by the suffrage of the nation, to save and institute the kingdom of Germany.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - —Senate, with Talleyrand as President, institute a Provisional Government.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 by Emperor of the French Napoleon I