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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.
Definition 2024
apparitor
apparitor
English
Noun
apparitor (plural apparitors)
- Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.
- De Quincey
- Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world.
- De Quincey
- A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)
Latin
Etymology
From appāreō (“wait upon”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /apˈpaː.ri.tor/
Noun
appāritor m (genitive appāritōris); third declension
- a gatekeeper
- a public servant
- a servant, secretary, lictor, deputy
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | appāritor | appāritōrēs |
| genitive | appāritōris | appāritōrum |
| dative | appāritōrī | appāritōribus |
| accusative | appāritōrem | appāritōrēs |
| ablative | appāritōre | appāritōribus |
| vocative | appāritor | appāritōrēs |
Related terms
Descendants
- French: appariteur
References
- apparitor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- apparitor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “apparitor”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.