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apparitor
[ uh-par-i-ter ]
noun
- (in ancient Rome) a subordinate official of a magistrate or of the court.
apparitor
/ əˈpærɪtə /
noun
- an officer who summons witnesses and executes the orders of an ecclesiastical and (formerly) a civil court
Word History and Origins
Origin of apparitor1
Word History and Origins
Origin of apparitor1
Example Sentences
I continued, and I drew out a little packet of parchment with a great red seal hanging from it by a green ribbon; just such a packet as that which I had stolen from the Bishop's apparitor nearly four years back.
I solemnly drew out the white staff I had taken from the apparitor.
Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world.
A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; Ð called also an apparitor or summoner.
Lilly speaks of one William Poole, who was a nibbler at astrological science, and, in addition, a gardener, an apparitor, a drawer of lime, a plasterer, a bricklayer; in fact, he bragged of knowing no fewer than seventeen trades—such was the versatility of his genius!
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