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instaurator|ˈɪnstɔːreɪtə(r)|
[a. late L. instaurātor, agent-n. f. instaurāre to instaurate. Cf. F. instaurateur (16th c. in Godef.).]
a. One who repairs or renews; a restorer.
b. One who institutes or establishes; a founder.
1660H. More Myst. Godl. v. xvii. 203 Such Enthusiasts and Impostours, who being wholy ignorant of the affairs of the Kingdom of Christ, will yet pretend to be the great Instaurators of his Empire. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. I. ix. 152 The first instaurator of the dynamic philosophy in England. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 659 A striking evidence how imperfectly the genius of the Instaurator of sciences was comprehended. 1879M. Pattison Milton iv. 46 The great instaurator of all knowledge, Bacon, in preaching the necessity of altering the whole method of knowing, included..the method of teaching to know. |