institutor

Daminus mendacii a seipso deceptus, alios decipere cupit, adversarius humani generis, Inventor mortis, superbiae institutor, radix malitiae, scelerum caput, princeps omnium vitiorum, fuit inde in Dei contumeliam, hominum perniciem: de horum conatibus et operationibus lege Epiphanium.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Louis de Paramo, one of the most respectable writers and most brilliant luminaries of the Holy Office, relates, in the second chapter of his second book, that God was the first institutor of the Holy Office, and that he exercised the power of the preaching brethren, that is of the Dominican Order, against Adam.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

And truly there never was any extraordinary institutor of laws among a people who did not have recourse to God, because otherwise he would not have been accepted; for they [these laws] are very well known by prudent men, but which by themselves do not contain evident reasons capable of persuading others.

Discourses 2003

That good pope who was the first institutor of fasting understood this well enough; for he ordained that our fast should reach but to the hour of noon; all the remainder of that day was at our disposure, freely to eat and feed at any time thereof.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

That good pope who was the first institutor of fasting understood this well enough; for he ordained that our fast should reach but to the hour of noon; all the remainder of that day was at our disposure, freely to eat and feed at any time thereof.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

As to his glory, let time be challenged to declare whether the fame of any other institutor of human life be comparable to that of a poet.

English literary criticism Various

He took a considerable part in the rebuilding of London after the great fire of 1666, and has a claim to be considered the institutor of fire-insurance in England, which he started somewhere about 1680.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

And further, that there is no other name, doctrine or religion, whereby any can be saved, but in the name, doctrine and religion of the Lord Jesus Christ, of which he is the great author and institutor; in the profession and faith whereof, he leads his people through this world into the possession of endless felicity and glory in the world to come.

Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive The Reformed Presbytery

_On the contrary, _ The institutor of anything is he who gives it strength and power: as in the case of those who institute laws.

Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas

Consequently, it follows that the power of the sacrament is from the institutor of the sacrament.

Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas