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Definition of: institutor
(in′stə·t
′tər, -ty′-) noun
1. One who establishes, organizes, or sets in operation; a founder.
2. U.S. In the Protestant Episcopal Church, one who institutes a clergyman into a church or parish.
3. Obs. An educator. Also in′sti·tut′er. [<L]
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