† foundatorn.
Obsolete.
= founder n.1
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the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [noun] > institution or founding > one who or that which founds or establishes
aginnera1300
founder1340
grounder14..
foundatorc1425
stablement1481
stablisher1535
institutera1538
patriarcha1538
institutor1546
erector1548
inventor1548
fundatrix1549
upsetter1581
establishera1600
co-founder1605
co-foundress1631
planter1632
institutive1644
instaurator1660
institutrix1706
institutress1788
godfather1830
founding father1903
founder member1909
c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 19 And with ofte visitacions solempne laude yeldid to God, with the foundatoure.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xv. 101 Lauberaris of the grond..var fundatouris of al there triumphand prosperite.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xxiv. 140 Penetropolis..afterwards of his foundator Philippopoli.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 324 The Abbay..quhairof he is namet fundatour.
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