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Institutional   Listen
adjective
Institutional  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to, or treating of, an institution or institutions; as, institutional legends. "Institutional writers as Rousseau."
2.
Instituted by authority.
3.
Elementary; rudimental.





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"Institutional" Quotes from Famous Books



... president, or whatever political denomination it may be, and insist upon the Holy Wisdom to lead humanity. It ought to be absolutely indifferent to the Church what political denomination, or social creed, or institutional shape a human society shall have as long as this is founded upon any other ideal but saintliness. The Church ought to know only two denominations—politics and social life, inter-human as well as international and inter racial-racial ...
— The Agony of the Church (1917) • Nikolaj Velimirovic
... new lease of life. But the national Church of England was not constituted to resist the national will, and the attempt to reorganise it on Catholic lines was fore-doomed to failure. And so, since the assumption that a great institutional fighting Church must exist was never even questioned, when Anglicanism failed him there was no ...
— Outspoken Essays • William Ralph Inge
... Christianity which is to prevail in India will be encased in the present ecclesiasticism which assumes and claims monopoly of our faith. I can conceive the possibility of there being a vast amount of Christianity—a living and a self-propagating Christianity—outside the pale of organized and institutional Christianity in India. It is so in the West to-day. The organized churches of the West have within themselves an ever diminishing portion of the vital Christian life and aspirations of the country. Christianity has overleapt ...
— India, Its Life and Thought • John P. Jones
... and habits of thought; a selective adaptation of conventions and methods of life. Something is to be said of the office of the leisure class in guiding this growth as well as in retarding it; but little can be said here of its relation to institutional growth except as it touches the institutions that are primarily and immediately of an economic character. These institutions—the economic structure—may be roughly distinguished into two classes or categories, according as they serve one or the other of two divergent purposes ...
— The Theory of the Leisure Class • Thorstein Veblen


Words linked to "Institutional" :   institutionalised, institutionalized, noninstitutional, institution, uninteresting


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