Instrumentality vs Institute - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between instrumentality and institute

is that instrumentality is (uncountable) the quality or condition of being instrumental; serving a purpose, being useful while institute is .

instrumentality

English

Noun

(instrumentalities)

(uncountable) The quality or condition of being instrumental; serving a purpose, being useful.

*1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 294:

*:In a later vision the Saviour revealed to her in detail the ‘great design’ which he wished to establish through her instrumentality .

(countable, legal) A governmental organ with a specific purpose.

*1994 , :

*:Any work in which the copyright was ever owned or administered by the and in which the restored copyright would be owned by a government or instrumentality thereof, is not a restored work.

(countable) Something that is instrumental; an instrument

*{{quote-book, year=1838, author=American Anti-Slavery Society, title=The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4, chapter=, edition= citation
, passage=He spoke of the various instrumentalities which were now employed for the conversion of the world.}}
*{{quote-book, year=1873, author=Helen Hunt Jackson, title=Bits About Home Matters, chapter=, edition= citation
, passage=Delays and failures will only set her to casting about for new instrumentalities . }}
*{{quote-book, year=1914, author=Samuel F. B. Morse, title=Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals, chapter=, edition= citation
, passage=God works by instrumentalities , and he has wonderfully thus far interposed in keeping evils that I feared in abeyance. }}

institute
English

Etymology 1
From (etyl) institut, from (etyl), from (etyl) .
Noun
(wikipedia institute) (en noun)
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

(obsolete) The act of instituting; institution.

* Milton

water sanctified by Christ's institute

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

* Burke

They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy.

* Dryden

to make the Stoics' institutes thy own

(legal, Scotland) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.

(Tomlins)

Derived terms
* educational institute * research institute * academic institute
Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) .
Verb
(institut)
To begin or initiate (something); to found.

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

* (rfdate) Shakespeare

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

* 1776 , (Thomas Jefferson), (Declaration of Independence) :

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.

(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

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

To nominate; to appoint.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

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

(ecclesiastical, legal) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.

(Blackstone)

Related terms
* institution * institutional
Adjective
(-)
(obsolete) Established; organized; founded.

* Robynson (More's Utopia)

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

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