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

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  1. n. Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.
  2. n. A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court.
  3. 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. (Law) A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court. Bouvier.
  4. A messenger or officer who serves the process of anecclesiastical court. Bouvier.
  5. 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.