institute

An organization founded to promote a cause

I work in a medical research institute.

An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects

The building housing such an institution.

The act of instituting; institution.

water sanctified by Christ's institute

That which is instituted, established, or fixed, such as a law, habit, or custom.

They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy.

to make the Stoic institutes thy own

To begin or initiate (something); to found.

He instituted the new policy of having children walk through a metal detector to enter school.

And haply institute / A course of learning and ingenious studies.

To train, instruct.

Publius was the first that ever instituted the Souldier to manage his armes by dexteritie and skil, and joyned art unto vertue, not for the use of private contentions, but for the wars and Roman peoples quarrels.

If children were early instituted, knowledge would insensibly insinuate itself.

To nominate; to appoint.

We institute your Grace / To be our regent in these parts of France.

To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.

a writ issued to the bishop, to institute the clerk of that patron

Established; organized; founded.

They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and institute, very few to suffice.