institutor
Americannoun
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a person who institutes or founds.
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Protestant Episcopal Church. a person who institutes a minister into a parish or church.
Etymology
Origin of institutor
1540–50; < Late Latin institūtor, equivalent to institū-, stem of instituere to institute + -tor -tor
Example Sentences
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Joan Darc first thinks that she dreams, but her next belief is that, agreeable to the promise made to her by the institutor in the name of the Bishop, she has secretly been set free.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne
Blount, in his Glossographia," says Archdeacon Nares in his Glossary, "speaks of a foolish derivation of the word from a Judge Gaudy, said to have been the institutor of such days.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer
My very dear brothers: Peter of Estivet, institutor of the process against Joan the Maid, will concisely state our petition.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne
In this respect he was the imitator, probably the unconscious imitator, of Charlemagne, and the precursor of Henry II., the institutor of our Justices in Eyre.
From Lectures and Essays by Smith, Goldwin
One says it was named after St. Anthony the Great, the first institutor of monastic life, born A.D.
From The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention by Bruce, Wallace
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