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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Institution (0.02223 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to Institution.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: institution
aparat, kelembagaan, pendirian lembaga, perguruan, yayasan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: institution
institution
n 1: an organization founded and united for a specific purpose
[syn:
establishment]
2: an establishment consisting of a building or complex of
buildings where an organization for the promotion of some
cause is situated
3: a custom that for a long time has been an important feature
of some group or society;
“the institution of marriage”;
“the institution of slavery”;
“he had become an
institution in the theater”
4: the act of starting something for the first time;
introducing something new;
“she looked forward to her
initiation as an adult”;
“the foundation of a new
scientific society”;
“he regards the fork as a modern
introduction” [syn:
initiation,
founding,
foundation,
origination,
creation,
innovation,
introduction,
instauration]
5: a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
[syn:
mental hospital,
psychiatric hospital,
mental institution
,
mental home,
insane asylum,
asylum]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Institution
Institution
\In`sti*tu"tion\, n. [L. institutio: cf. F.
institution.]
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1. The act or process of instituting; as:
(a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the
institution of a school.
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The institution of God's law is described as
being established by solemn injunction.
--Hooker.
(b) Instruction; education. [Obs.] --Bentley.
(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.
--Blackstone.
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2. That which instituted or established; as:
(a) Established order, method, or custom; enactment;
ordinance; permanent form of law or polity.
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The nature of our people,
Our city's institutions. --Shak.
(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.
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We ordered a lunch (the most delightful of
English institutions, next to dinner) to be
ready against our return. --Hawthorne.
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3. That which institutes or instructs; a textbook; a system
of elements or rules; an institute. [Obs.]
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There is another manuscript, of above three hundred
years old, . . . being an institution of physic.
--Evelyn.
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