institutor

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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

The other scaffold, that is draped in black, is occupied by the judges of the process, its institutor, its assessors and its registrars.

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

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

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

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