instituter
(ˈɪnstɪtjuːtə(r))
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
One who institutes (see the vb.); = institutor.
| 1538 Starkey England ii. ii. 181 Our old aunceturys, the instytutarys of our lawys..ordeynyd a Connestabul of Englond. 1633 Ames Agst. Cerem. ii. 317 Artaxerxes was the first instituter of this Feast. 1670 Milton Hist. Eng. iii. (1851) 133 The instituter of his youth. 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 399 A character of wisdom running uniform throughout both in the religion and the Instituter. 1833 I. Taylor Fanat. ii. 49 The revenge of jealousy seems, to the injured man, to be justified..by the formal instituter of society. |