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Institutor [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The person who establishes; one who enacts laws, rites and ceremonies, and enjoins the observance of them.

2. The person who founds an order, sect, society or scheme for the promotion of a public or social object.

3. An instructor; one who educates; as an institutor of youth.

Institutor [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who institutes, founds, ordains, or establishes.

2. One who educates; an instructor.

3. A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.