apparitor

1. n. Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders. Source: opted

2. n. A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court. Source: opted

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. Source: webster

4. A messenger or officer who serves the process of anecclesiastical court. Bouvier. Source: adambom

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. Source: ecdict

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