institutor

Or in·sti·tut·er

[in-sti-too-ter, -tyoo-]

noun

1. a person who institutes or founds.

2. Protestant Episcopal Church.,  a person who institutes a minister into a parish or church.

Word History and Origins

Origin of institutor¹

1540–50; < Late Latin institūtor, equivalent to institū-, stem of instituere to institute + -tor -tor

Example Sentences

The Institutor of human life laid down its principle in the first frame of things.

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Towards midnight he returned with the institutor of the process and a physician.

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Behind them and in his monk's frock comes the inquisitor John Lemaitre, together with Peter of Estivet, the official institutor of the process, William Erard and two registrars, carrying parchments and writing portfolios.

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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.

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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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