Apparitor

[ә'pæritә]

Definition

(n.) Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.

(n.) A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court.

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Definition

n. an officer who attends on a court or on a magistrate to execute orders: still applied to the officer of an archiepiscopal episcopal archidiaconal or other ecclesiastical court sometimes to the beadle of a university bearing the mace: (rare) one who appears.

Editor: Sasha