initiator

The man may be the initiator in action, but the woman is initiator in emotion.

He became thus, in later years, the initiator of the Peking-Hankow railway.

And in this respect he was again an initiator in Florentine art.

I do not know who was the initiator of the movement or in what country it was first apparent.

Plato, therefore, is the founder and initiator of all idealism.

Guru—spiritual preceptor, initiator into learning or a faith.

"That oligarchy must also in its end be overthrown," continued the initiator.

At the great exhibition at Paris one saw both master and scholars; or it would be better to say, the initiator and the imitators.

Again and again Fra Filippo acts as initiator and sets the fashion for whole generations of artists.

He saw it come in powerfully with Mr. Flack, after Miss Dosson had proposed they should walk off without their initiator.