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
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.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne
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 Sue, Eug?ne
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
To this old servitor he communicated his purpose, and besought him to accompany his former master to this frightfully secluded place, which St. Bruno, institutor of the Carthusian Monks, had founded.
From Claimants to Royalty by Ingram, John M.
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