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ess; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc. Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliances are relieved. Shak. The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public counsels have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which…

on or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar. The distinctive character and institutions of New England. Bancroft.

A benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders. See the Note under Benefice, n.,

an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution. Endowing hospitals and almshouses. Bp. Stillingfleet.

That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college.

along; to introduce. [Obs.] To baptize all nations, and entertain them into the services institutions of the holy Jesus. Jer. Taylor.

f; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; -- said of a colony, a state, or other institutions. He hath established it [the earth], he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited. Is. xlv. 18. Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity! Hab. ii. 12.…

spirit which actuates manners and customs; also, the characteristic tone or genius of an institution or social organization.

he inorganic and the psychical. It is also applied to explain the existence and growth of institutions, manners, language, civilization, and every product of human activity. The agencies and laws of the process are variously explained by different philosophrs. Evolution is to me series with development. Gladstone.…

To cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like; as, to expel a student or member.

A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment. He was entered on the foundation of Westminster. Macaulay.

ho devote themselves to useful works, such as manual labor schools, and other educational institutions; -- called also Brothers of the Third Order of St. Francis. -- Franciscan Nuns, nuns who follow the rule of t. Francis, esp. those of the Second Order of St. Francis, -- called also Poor Clares or Minoresses. -- Fra…

ncroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the institutions or the practices of freemasons; as, a freemasonic signal.

The institutions or the practices of freemasons.

The institution or praactices of friars. Fuller.

One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution.

e different countries into which earth is divided with regard to political and social and institutions and conditions.

An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. Walton.

rofessional degree; one who has completed the prescribed course of study in any school or institution of learning.