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
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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 John Henry Newman
The other scaffold, that is draped in black, is occupied by the judges of the process, its institutor, its assessors and its registrars.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
Blount, in his Glossographia," says Archdeacon Nares in his Glossary, "speaks of a foolish derivation of the word from a Judge Gaudy, said to have been the institutor of such days.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
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
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.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
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