institutor

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No institution will be better than the institutor.

From Essays — Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

He is allowed to be the same with Menes, whom all historians declare to be the first king of Egypt, the institutor of the worship of the gods, and of the ceremonies of the sacrifices.

From The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) by Rollin, Charles