Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or relating to an institution or to institutions; institutional.
- Containing the first principles or doctrines; elementary; rudimentary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to an institution, or institutions.
- adjective Containing the first principles or doctrines; elemental; rudimentary.
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- adjective Relating to an
institution or institutions. - adjective Containing the
first principles ordoctrines ;rudimentary .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A divine justice is meted out; Dr. Grant, who begins by liking his goose tender, ends by bringing on “apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week”.
The Common Reader 1925
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He appreciated its full meaning-recognition by the world's foremost institution of learning of the achievements of one who had no learning of the institutionary kind.
Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872
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He appreciated its full meaning-recognition by the world's foremost institution of learning of the achievements of one who had no learning of the institutionary kind.
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1835-1866) Mark Twain 1872
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His LORDSHIP therefore used to mix some institutionary reading with them, as after a fulness of the reports in a morning, about noon, to take a repast in
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir-apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20,000, any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at
Mansfield Park Jane Austen 1796
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From daily culinary delights served during Teddy Bear Tea and visits with Santa in a giant gingerbread house made of real gingerbread, to a non-pollutionary, anti-institutionary, pro-confectionery Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory filled with more than 1,000 pounds of candy - in addition to oh-so-much chocolate - the hotel offers a veritable wonderland of holiday activities for youngsters and the young-at-heart, during December.
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-- They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20_000L. any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learnt to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head.
Mansfield Park 1814
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