Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An official who was formerly sent to carry out the orders of a civil or ecclesiastical court.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Roman antiquity, any officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.
- noun Any officer of a civil court, or his servant or attendant.
- noun Any one who puts in an appearance; an appearer.
- noun Eccles., a messenger or an officer who serves the process of a spiritual court; the lowest officer of an ecclesiastical tribunal.
- noun The beadle in a university, who carries the mace.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.
- noun (Law) A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.
- noun A
messenger orofficer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Being examined, he confessed to the words following: "That all false matters were bolstered and clokyd in this court of Paul's Cheyne; moreover he called the apparitor, William
The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856
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The apparitor is the ambassador of the law, and ambassadors are not subject to punishment, so that I do not know why you keep me under guard.
Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 Adam Mickiewicz 1826
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The unfortunate apparitor was then conducted back to the church, where, for his refreshment after his bath, the letters of excommunication were torn to pieces, and steeped in a bowl of wine; the mock abbot being probably of opinion that a tough parchment was but dry eating, Langlands was compelled to eat the letters, and swallow the wine, and dismissed by the Abbot of
The Abbot 2008
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I may observe, for example, the case of an apparitor sent to Borthwick from the Primate of Saint Andrews, to cite the lord of that castle, who was opposed by an Abbot of Unreason, at whose command the officer of the spiritual court was appointed to be ducked in a mill-dam, and obliged to eat up his parchment citation.
The Abbot 2008
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In former days it denoted a sergeant, an apparitor, an officer who executed magisterial orders.
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William Langlands, an apparitor or macer (bacularius) of the See of St Andrews, presented these letters to the curate of the church of
The Abbot 2008
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‘Jeremy Stickles is my name, lad, nothing more than a poor apparitor of the worshipful Court of King’s Bench.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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The apparitor who was collecting the votes approached us.
Balzac 2003
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After his defeat, when he (194) was ordered by the senate to name a dictator, making a sort of jest of the public disaster, he named Glycias, his apparitor.
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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ORBILIUS PUPILLUS, of Beneventum, being left an orphan, by the death of his parents, who both fell a sacrifice to the plots of their enemies on the same day, acted, at first, as apparitor to the magistrates.
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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