Associations to the word «Institutionalize»

Wiktionary

INSTITUTIONALIZE, verb. To establish as a normal practice
INSTITUTIONALIZE, verb. To commit a person to confinement in an institution

Dictionary definition

INSTITUTIONALIZE, verb. Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope