apparitor

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/əˈpæɹitɚ/

noun

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

OriginLatin appāritor →
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Meanings

nounapparitor (plural apparitors)

plural apparitors · alternative apparator · alternative obsolete paritor

  1. historicalAn 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.

    1857, Thomas De Quincey, Richard Bentley
  2. A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court.

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

    1797, Richard Burn, Ecclesiastical Law

Origin

  1. Latinappāritor“public servant”
  2. Englishapparitor

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

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Chicago

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