Institutionalized

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  institutionalized
       adj 1: officially placed in or committed to a specialized
              institution; "had hopes of rehabilitating the
              institutionalized juvenile delinquents" [syn: {institutionalised}]
              [ant: {noninstitutionalized}]
       2: given the character of an institution or incorporated into a


          structured and usually well-established system;
          "institutionalized graft"; "institutionalized suicide as
          practiced in Japan" [syn: {institutionalised}]