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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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
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
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
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 Hall, Benjamin Homer
Facing this table is the seat of Peter of Estivet, the institutor of the process.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne
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