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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Consequently, it follows that the power of the sacrament is from the institutor of the sacrament.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
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 Eug?ne Sue
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 Eug?ne Sue
Towards midnight he returned with the institutor of the process and a physician.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
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 Goldwin Smith
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