Institute vs Settle - What's the difference?
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An organization founded to promote a cause
An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects
The building housing such an institution
(obsolete) The act of instituting; institution.
* Milton
(obsolete) That which is instituted, established, or fixed, such as a law, habit, or custom.
* Burke
* Dryden
(legal, Scotland) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
To begin or initiate (something); to found.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
* 1776 , (Thomas Jefferson), (Declaration of Independence) :
(obsolete) To train, instruct.
*, II.27:
*: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.
* (rfdate) Dr. H. More
To nominate; to appoint.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
(ecclesiastical, legal) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.
(obsolete) Established; organized; founded.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
To place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; especially, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home etc.
* And he settled his countenance steadfastly upon him,until he was ashamed. --2 Kings VIII. 11. (Rev. Ver.)
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(transitive, obsolete, US) To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish.
To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to quieten; to still; to calm; to compose.
* (George Chapman)
* (John Bunyan)
To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink
To restore (ground, roads etc.) or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition
To cause to sink; to lower
To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from uncertainty
* (Jonathan Swift)
To pacify (a discussion, quarrel).
(archaic) To adjust (accounts); to liquidate; to balance.
(colloquial) To pay.
To colonize; to move people to (a land or territory).
To become fixed, permanent or stationary; to establish one's self or itself
* (Francis Bacon)
* (John Arbuthnot)
To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home.
To become married, or a householder.
* (Matthew Prior)
To be established in a profession or in employment.
To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.
To become clear after being unclear or vague
* (Joseph Addison)
To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, for example dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.
To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc.
To become calm; to stop being agitated
* (William Shakespeare)
To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement.
(obsolete) To make a jointure for a wife.
* (Samuel Garth)
(archaic) A seat of any kind.
* Hampole
A long bench, often with a high back and arms, with storage space underneath for linen.
(obsolete) A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part.
* Bible, Ezekiel xliii. 14
Institute is a related term of settle.
As nouns the difference between institute and settle
is that institute is while settle is (archaic) a seat of any kind.As a verb settle is
to place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; especially, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home etc.institute
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) institut, from (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia institute) (en noun)- I work in a medical research institute .
- water sanctified by Christ's institute
- They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy.
- to make the Stoics' institutes thy own
- (Tomlins)
Derived terms
* educational institute * research institute * academic instituteEtymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Verb
(institut)- 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.
- Whenever any from of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government.
- If children were early instituted , knowledge would insensibly insinuate itself.
- We institute your Grace / To be our regent in these parts of France.
- (Blackstone)
Adjective
(-)- They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and institute , very few to suffice.
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English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(settl)- God settled then the huge whale-bearing lake.
- Hoping that sleep might settle his brains.
- It will settle the wavering, and confirm the doubtful.
- to settle a bill
- The wind came about and settled in the west.
- Chyleruns through all the intermediate colors until it settles in an intense red.
- As people marry now and settle .
- A government, on such occasions, is always thick before it settles .
- Till the fury of his highness settle , Come not before him.
- He sighs with most success that settles well.
Synonyms
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(en noun)- upon the settle of his majesty
- And from the bottom upon the ground, even to the lower settle , shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit.
