apparitor

Etymology

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

noun

  1. (historical) 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. 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

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