institutor
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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 John M. Ingram
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 Goldwin Smith
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
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
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 Eug?ne Sue
