APPARITOR

apparitor. Apparitor, n. a low officer in ecclesiastical courts

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Ap‐par″i‐tor (�), n. [[L., fr. apparere. See Appear.]] 1. 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. 2. (Law) A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court. Bouvier.