Ĭn’sti-tū’tor, n.

n. [Lat., It. institutore, O. Sp. institutor, Fr. instituteur.]

1. One who institutes or establishes.
2. One who enacts laws, rites, and ceremonies, and enjoins the observance of them.
3. One who founds an order, sect, society, or scheme, for the promotion of a public or social object.
4. One who educates; an educator; an instructor; as, an institutor of youth. [Obs.]
5. (Episcopal Church.) A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister in a parish church.