0 past simple and past participle of institute
1 to start or cause a system, rule, legal action, etc. to exist:
She is threatening to institute legal proceedings against the hospital.
In particular, a series of fines were instituted for a range of prohibited activities within reserved forest areas.
A few schools recognized society's need and instituted explicit medical ethics teaching - allocating funds, hiring ethicists, creating departments, and trumpeting their accomplishments.
After the campaign an intensive surveillance system was instituted and physicians were required to notify suspected cases.
These courts instituted a practical codification even when formal textual codes were impossible to produce.
At neighbourhood level, the gang had similarly instituted a veritable regime of terror.
It is instituted not to end life, but to relieve suffering.
In many cases the authorities instituted hereditary family occupations and probably determined patrilineal succession.
We instituted a number of additional controls on the selection of the stimulus set to ensure interpretable results.
