institutor

One who institutes something.

Noun

  1. One who institutes something.
    • institutors of civil policy
  2. One who educates; an instructor.
    • The two great aims which every institutor of youth should mainly and intentionally drive at - 1683, William Walker, “Preface”, in English examples of the Latin syntaxis […] :
  3. A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.

Origin

From Latin īnstitūtor. Compare French instituteur. By surface analysis, institute + -or.

Forms

institutors institutour