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plural apparitors
(historical) An officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders. quotations
Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world.
1857, Thomas De Quincey, Richard Bentley
A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court. quotations examples
a monition be awarded to an apparitor, to summon a man
1797, Richard Burn, Ecclesiastical Law