institutorn.
/ˈɪnstɪtjuːtə/ 1. One who institutes or establishes; a founder; an organizer.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [noun] > institution or founding > one who or that which founds or establishes
aginnera1300
founder1340
grounder14..
foundatorc1425
stablement1481
stablisher1535
institutera1538
patriarcha1538
institutor1546
erector1548
inventor1548
fundatrix1549
upsetter1581
establishera1600
co-founder1605
co-foundress1631
planter1632
institutive1644
instaurator1660
institutrix1706
institutress1788
godfather1830
founding father1903
founder member1909
1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke iv. ii. 85 a There be thre maner of Baptismes..One in water..another in the Holy gost & fyre wherof Christ was institutoure, the third in his blod wherin the Children that Herod slewe were Christened.
1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie 60 As the institutor speaketh of his body, so also of his blood.
1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. ii. 47 The exceeding fewness of those laws of motion whereby the Institutor of nature proceeds in the ordinary course and conduct of it.
1738 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses I. 85 Institutors of Civil Policy.
1812 Ld. Ellenborough in Examiner 28 Dec. 832/2 The defendant was not proved to be the institutor, but only the propagator, of the libel.
1841–4 R. W. Emerson Ess. (1876) 2nd Ser. iii. 87 No institution will be better than the institutor.
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society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun]
larewc900
mastereOE
lorthewc1160
lore-fatherc1175
lerera1340
lister1377
loresman1377
doctora1382
learner1382
teacherc1384
readera1387
lore-mastera1400
former1401
informer?c1422
preceptorc1450
instructora1464
informator1483
doctrinal?1504
lear-father1533
usher1533
instructer1534
trainer1543
educator1609
instituter1670
institutorc1675
subpreceptor1696
Barbe1710
pundit1816
umfundisi1825
preception1882
guru1884
mwalimu1884
rabbi1917
c1675 A. Walker (J.) The two great aims which every institutor of youth should mainly and intentionally drive at.
1797 W. Godwin Enquirer i. i. 3 When a child is born..his institutor ought to..awaken his mind.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Def. Poetry in Ess. & Lett. (1840) I. 52 To declare whether the fame of any other institutor of human life be comparable to that of a poet.
3. U.S. In the American Episcopal Church: A bishop, or a presbyter acting for him, who institutes a minister into a parish or church.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > induction > [noun] > person performing
institutor1804
installant1880
1804–86 Bk. Common Prayer Episc. Church U.S., Instit. Ministers The Bishop, or the Priest who acts as the Institutor, standing within the rails of the Altar.
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