institutor

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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 Newman, John Henry

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

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

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

Towards midnight he returned with the institutor of the process and a physician.

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne