viator

plural viators · plural viatores

1. rareA wayfarer, traveler.

   [The] notion of man as viator in search of perfection in history thus did not function as a legitimating idea for progress.

   , University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Viator, Univ of California Press, page 25

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   After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.

   1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28

   ... theological virtues and of the whole supernatural life in God on account of sanctifying grace. Aquinas understands the viator in the state of grace in […]

   2019, Reinhard Hütter, Bound for Beatitude A Thomistic Study in Eschatology and Ethics, Catholic University of America Press, →ISBN, page 39

2. historicalrareAn apparitor, a summoner: a minor Roman official.

   The apparitor tribuni was a viator, whose most important function was that of arrest.

   1882, Titus Livius, Historiarum Romanarum quæ supersunt liber secundus, ed. by H. Belcher, page 198

3. A person who is subject to a viatical insurance policy or a viatical settlement.

   […] the viators are residents of different states, the viatical settlement […]

   2016, Howard M. Friedman, Anderson's Ohio Annotated Securities Law Handbook, 2016 Edition, LexisNexis, →ISBN

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   Viatical settlement providers purchase the policies from individual viators. Once purchased, these viatical settlement providers typically sell […]

   2020, Deborah Bouchoux, Christine Sgarlata Chung, Business Organizations Law in Focus, Aspen Publishers, →ISBN, page 711

plural Viators

1. countableuncountableA municipality in Andalusia, Spain.
2. countableuncountableA surname.