- A business - The act or process of instituting; as: (a)
Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school. - Instruction; education. - 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 - Established order, method, or custom; enactment;
ordinance; permanent form of law or polity. - 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.
- To render other than Protestant; to cause to
change from Protestantism to some other form of religion; to deprive of
some Protestant feature or characteristic.