<B>instigate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-gated,</B> <B>-gating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to urge on; stir up; bring about by inciting. <BR> <I>Ex. The older boy instigated a quarrel between his two younger brothers. Foreign agents instigated a rebellion.</I> (SYN) provoke, foment. noun <B>instigator.</B> </DL>
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<B>instigation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of instigating; urging on; stirring up; incitement. <DD><B> 2. </B>an incentive; stimulus. <BR><I>expr. <B>at the instigation of,</B> </I>instigated by. <BR> <I>Ex. Chunda Sahib ... was put to death, at the instigation probably of his competitor (Macaulay).</I> </DL>
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<B>instigative, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> tending to instigate; stimulative. </DL>
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<B>instill</B> or <B>instil, </B>transitive verb, <B>-stilled,</B> <B>-stilling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to put in little by little; cause to enter the mind, heart, or feelings, gradually. <BR> <I>Ex. Reading good books instills a love of really fine literature.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to put in drop by drop. noun <B>instillation.</B> noun <B>instiller.</B> noun <B>instillment,</B> <B>instilment.</B> </DL>
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<B>instinct</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a natural feeling, knowledge, or power, such as that which guides animals; inborn tendency to act in a certain way. An instinct is a chain of unlearned, coordinated acts characteristic of a particular species or group of animals. <BR> <I>Ex. Birds do not learn to build nests but build them by instinct. The very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason (Charles Darwin).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a natural tendency or ability; talent. <BR> <I>Ex. Even as a child the artist had an instinct for drawing. He had ... neither the grander nor the meaner instincts of the born tyrant (John R. Green).</I> </DL>
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<B>instinct</B> (2), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>charged or filled (with something). <BR> <I>Ex. The picture is instinct with life and beauty.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) impelled; excited. </DL>
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<B>instinctive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with instinct; caused or done by instinct; born in an animal or person; not learned. <BR> <I>Ex. Climbing is instinctive in monkeys. The spinning of webs is instinctive in spiders. An action ... when performed by many individuals in the same way, without their knowing for what purpose it is performed, is usually said to be instinctive (Charles Darwin).</I> (SYN) intuitive, natural, innate. adv. <B>instinctively.</B> </DL>
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<B>instinctual, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the instincts. <BR> <I>Ex. instinctual drives.</I> </DL>
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<B>institute, </B>noun, verb, <B>-tuted,</B> <B>-tuting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1a. </B>an organization or society for some special purpose. An art institute teaches or displays art. A technical school is often called an institute. (Abbr:) Inst. <DD><B> b. </B>the building used by such an organization or society. <BR> <I>Ex. We spent the afternoon in the Art Institute.</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>a short program of instruction for a particular group. <BR> <I>Ex. a teacher's institute.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>an elementary principle or element of instruction. <DD><B> 3. </B>something instituted; an established principle, law, custom, organization, or society; institution. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to set up; establish; begin; start. <BR> <I>Ex. The Pilgrims instituted Thanksgiving Day. After the accident the police instituted an inquiry into its causes.</I> (SYN) found, organize, introduce, initiate. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Ecclesiastical.) to assign to a spiritual charge; invest with the cure of souls. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Roman Law.) to appoint as an heir or executor. <BR><I>expr. <B>institutes,</B> </I>a digest of the elements of a subject, especially of law. <BR> <I>Ex. the Institutes of Justinian and Gaius, Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory.</I> </DL>
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<B>instituter, </B>noun. <B>=institutor.</B></DL>
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<B>institution, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a society, club, college, or any organization established for some public or social purpose. A church, school, university, hospital, asylum, or prison is an institution. (Abbr:) Inst. <DD><B> 2. </B>the building used for the work of an institution. <BR> <I>Ex. The institution was under guard when the art exhibit was there.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>an established law or custom. <BR> <I>Ex. Giving presents at Christmas is an institution. Marriage is an institution among most peoples of the earth. Vast institutions, such as the church or industry or monogamy, are important (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the act or process of instituting; setting up; beginning, starting, establishing, or providing for. <BR> <I>Ex. We hope for the institution of hot lunches at school this winter. Wise men favor the institution of a savings bank in every large city.</I> (SYN) foundation. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Informal, Figurative.) a familiar person or thing. <DD><B> 6. </B>(Ecclesiastical.) <DD><B> a. </B>the establishment of a sacrament of the Christian church by Christ. <DD><B> b. </B>the investment of a clergyman with a spiritual charge. <DD><B> 7. </B>(Law.) a first principle of a subject, or a book of instruction containing first principles. </DL>
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<B>institutional, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or like an institution. <BR> <I>Ex. About 80 per cent of the institutional vote customarily goes to management (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>promoting reputation and establishing good will for a business rather than aiming at immediate sales. <BR> <I>Ex. institutional advertising.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(U.S.) (of a church) possessing organizations and societies of a charitable or educational nature in addition to the purely religious work. <DD><B> 4. </B>of or having to do with the elements of a subject, such as those of law. adv. <B>institutionally.</B> </DL>
<B>institutionalism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a strong attachment to established institutions, such as of religion. <DD><B> 2. </B>the system of institutions for public, charitable, or similar purposes. </DL>
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<B>institutionalist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a person who strongly supports or favors established institutions. <DD><I>adj. </I> strongly attached to or demanding strong attachment to an institution or institutions. <BR> <I>Ex. Although he was one of the founders ... he later came to criticize the organization as "too institutionalist" (Time).</I> </DL>
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<B>institutionalize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to make into an institution. <BR> <I>Ex. There are other wrongs which seem to be becoming institutionalized, but perhaps the economic wrongs are an obvious starting point (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to put into an institution; subject (a person) to institutional life. <BR> <I>Ex. As a young girl [she] was institutionalized for schizophrenia (Saturday Review).</I> noun <B>institutionalization.</B> </DL>
<B>institutionary, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having to do with legal institutes or principles. <DD><B> 2. </B>having to do with an ecclesiastical institution. <DD><B> 3. </B>having to do with social or political institutions. </DL>
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<B>institutive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>tending to institute; having to do with institution. <DD><B> 2. </B>instituted; established. adv. <B>institutively.</B> </DL>
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<B>institutor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who institutes or establishes; founder; organizer. <DD><B> 2. </B>the bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church or his deputy who institutes a clergyman into a parish or church. </DL>
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<B>instr.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an abbreviation for the following: <DD><B> 1. </B>instructions. <DD><B> 2. </B>instructor. <DD><B> 3. </B>instrument. <DD><B> 4. </B>instrumental. </DL>
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<B>instreaming, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the act or fact of streaming in; influx; inflow. <DD><I>adj. </I> streaming in. </DL>
