institutor

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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 Ruskin, John

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

Facing this table is the seat of Peter of Estivet, the institutor of the process.

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

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 Smith, Goldwin

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