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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The Institutor of human life laid down its principle in the first frame of things.
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The other scaffold, that is draped in black, is occupied by the judges of the process, its institutor, its assessors and its registrars.
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Facing this table is the seat of Peter of Estivet, the institutor of the process.
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Canon Peter of Estivet, the institutor of the process, is in his seat.
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My very dear brothers: Peter of Estivet, institutor of the process against Joan the Maid, will concisely state our petition.
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