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Destitution. [R.] Ash.

The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.

; organized; founded. [Obs.] They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and institute, very few to suffice. Robynson (More's Utopia).

An institutor. [R.]

The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school. The institution of God's law is described as being established by solemn injunction. Hooker.

Pertaining to, or treating of, institutions; as, institutional legends. Institutional writers as Rousseau. J. S. Mill.

Relating to an institution, or institutions.

A writer or compiler of, or a commentator on, institutes. [R.] Harvey.

Tending or intended to institute; having the power to establish. Barrow.

In conformity with an institution. Harrington.

One who institutes, founds, ordains, or establishes.

Of or pertaining to the morning; early.

Matutinal. [R.]

Matutinal. [R.]

To instruct amiss.

To constitute or establish beforehand.

To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire. "Do not prostitute thy daughter." Lev. xix. 29.

The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman.

One who prostitutes; one who submits himself, of or offers another, to vile purposes. Bp. Hurd.

That which is restored or offered in place of something; a substitute. [R.]