institutor
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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
But the fatalest institutor of proud modern anatomical and scientific art, and of all that has polluted the dignity, and darkened the charity, of the greater ages, was Antonio Pollajuolo of Florence.
From Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds by John Ruskin
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
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 Saint Thomas Aquinas
Towards midnight he returned with the institutor of the process and a physician.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
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