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In conformity with an institution. Harrington.

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  • CONFORMITY
    1. Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between. By our conformity to God. Tillotson. The end of all religion is but to draw us to a conformity with God. Dr. H.More.
  • INSTITUTIONARY
    1. Relating to an institution, or institutions. 2. Containing the first principles or doctrines; elemental; rudimentary.
  • INSTITUTIONAL
    1. Pertaining to, or treating of, institutions; as, institutional legends. Institutional writers as Rousseau. J. S. Mill. 2. Instituted by authority. 3. Elementary; rudimental.
  • INSTITUTION
    1. The act or process of instituting; as: Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school. The institution of God's law is described as being established by solemn injunction. Hooker. Instruction; education. Bentley. The
  • INCONFORMITY
    Want of conformity; nonconformity.
  • SUPERINSTITUTION
    One institution upon another, as when A is instituted and admitted to a benefice upon a title, and B instituted and admitted upon the presentation of another. Bailey.
  • DISCONFORMITY
    Want of conformity or correspondence; inconsistency; disagreement. Those . . . in some disconformity to ourselves. Milton. Disagreement and disconformity betwixt the speech and the conception of the mind. Hakewill.
  • UNCONFORMITY
    Want of parallelism between strata in contact. Note: With some authors unconformity is equivalent to unconformability; but it is often used more broadly, for example, to include the case when the parallelism of strata once conformable
  • NONCONFORMITY
    Neglect or failure of conformity; especially, in England, the neglect or refusal to unite with the established church in its rites and modes of worship.
  • PRECONFORMITY
    Anticipative or antecedent conformity. Coleridge.

 

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