institutor
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Canon Peter of Estivet, the institutor of the process, is in his seat.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
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 John Henry Newman
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
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 Charles Rollin
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
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