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Webster 1913 Edition
Apparitor
1.
Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.
Before any of his
apparitors
could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor
to the other world. De Quincey.
2.
(Law)
A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court.
Bouvier.
Webster 1828 Edition
Apparitor
APPAR'ITOR
,Noun.
Among the Romans, any officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders. In England, a messenger or officer who serves the process of a spiritual court, or a beadle in the university who carries the mace.