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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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
Canon Peter of Estivet, the institutor of the process, is in his seat.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne
Towards midnight he returned with the institutor of the process and a physician.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne
On the contrary, The institutor of anything is he who gives it strength and power: as in the case of those who institute laws.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
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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