[n. of agent in L. form f. corporāre to embody.] A member of a corporation, esp. of a municipal corporation.
1784. Chron., in Ann. Reg., 207/2. A man is not a corporator for his own sake.
a. 1832. Mackintosh, Revol., Wks. 1846, II. 135. Almost all the sheriffs, and a majority of corporators and justices were … Catholics.
1862. Ld. Brougham, Brit. Const., iii. 49. The inhabitants, the individual corporators, did not hold of the Crown, but of the corporation.
1868. W. Stebbing, in M. Pattison, Acad. Org., i. 7. A corporator of the university is not necessarily a corporator of a college.
