institutor

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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

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

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

My very dear brothers: Peter of Estivet, institutor of the process against Joan the Maid, will concisely state our petition.

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