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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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
He took a considerable part in the rebuilding of London after the great fire of 1666, and has a claim to be considered the institutor of fire-insurance in England, which he started somewhere about 1680.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
But the fatalest institutor of proud modern anatomical and scientific art, and of all that has polluted the dignity, and darkened the charity, of the greater ages, was Antonio Pollajuolo of Florence.
From Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds by Ruskin, John
He is allowed to be the same with Menes, whom all historians declare to be the first king of Egypt, the institutor of the worship of the gods, and of the ceremonies of the sacrifices.
From The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) by Rollin, Charles
He has acquired the name of Canuni, or institutor of rules ... on account of the order and police which he established in his Empire.
From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by Newman, John Henry
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