Apparitor

//əˈpæɹitɚ// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders. historical

    "Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world."

  2. 2
    A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court.

    "a monition be awarded to an apparitor, to summon a man"

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beadleusher

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"Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world."

Etymology

Latin appāritor (“public servant”), from appareo (“I wait upon”).

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