Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A restorer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare One who renews or restores to a former condition.
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- noun One who
renews orrestores to a former condition.
Etymologies
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Examples
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On his tombstone he is called musices instaurator maximus, which title he deserves in that he originated the classical style of the eighteenth century, and gave a high development to concerted instrumental music. the scenes of his activity were alternately Rome and Naples.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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The great instaurator of all knowledge, Bacon, in preaching the necessity of altering the whole method of knowing, included as matter of course the method of teaching to know.
Milton Mark Pattison 1848
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But the merit, which will secure both to the book and to the writer a high and honourable name with posterity, consists in the masterly force of reasoning, and the copiousness of induction, with which he has assailed, and (in my opinion) subverted the tyranny of the mechanic system in physiology; established not only the existence of final causes, but their necessity and efficiency to every system that merits the name of philosophical; and, substituting life and progressive power for the contradictory inert force, has a right to be known and remembered as the first instaurator of the dynamic philosophy in England.
Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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