Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN'STI-TU-TOR, n. [L.]

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 outh. Walker.