Her great excellence
Lifts me above the measure of my might,
That, being fild with furious insolence,
I feele myselfe like one yrapt in spright.
Spenser, Colin Clout’s come Home again, 619
(Morris, v. p. 105).
| Institute, | } |
| Instituter, | |
| Institution. |
These all had once in English meanings coextensive with those of the Latin words which they represent. We now inform, instruct (the images are nearly the same), but we do not ‘institute,’ children any more.
A painful schoolmaster, that hath in hand
To institute the flower of all a land,
Gives longest lessons unto those, where Heaven