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Definition of apparitor

Apparitor
Apparitor Ap*par"i*tor, n. [L., fr. apparere. See Appear.] 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.
apparitor
Beadle Bea"dle, n. [OE. bedel, bidel, budel, OF. bedel, F. bedeau, fr. OHG. butil, putil, G. b["u]ttel, fr. OHG. biotan, G. bieten, to bid, confused with AS. bydel, the same word as OHG. butil. See. Bid, v.] 1. A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner. 2. An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students. [Eng.] Note: In this sense the archaic spellings bedel (Oxford) and bedell (Cambridge) are preserved. 3. An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc.

Meaning of apparitor from wikipedia

- Look up apparitor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Look up summoner in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In ancient Rome, an apparitor (also spelled...
- person who practices evocation, the act of summoning a supernatural agent Apparitor, or summoner, an officer of an ecclesiastical court Summoner (Wicca),...
- personalities and intricacies. Still yet, Herodian could have been an apparitor, a scribe or an attendant to the emperor. This would be suiting, for he...
- say Virgil's father was a potter, but most say he was an employee of an apparitor named Magius, whose daughter he married. According to Phocas and Probus...
- a civil servant but not hold higher magistracies (see, for instance, apparitor and scriba), serve as priests of the emperor or hold any of the other...
- as a mechanism to make a greater profit for the church court. Finally, apparitors of the ecclesiastical court would ensure the appearance of ecclesiastical...
- (1937). "The Apparitor and Chaucer's Summoner". Speculum. 12 (1): 46. doi:10.2307/2848660. JSTORĀ 2848660. S2CIDĀ 164063320. The apparitor [or summoner]...
- cohortales); the diminutive cohortalinus became a generic term (like apparitor) for non-cadre clerks in a high dignitary's officium (mainly administrative...
- the cybernetic beings as well as a traitor from his ninja clan called Apparitor, and ends his captured clanmates lives to free their spirits. His ultimate...
- he drafted the Emperor Nero's replies to petitions. He is mentioned as apparitor Caesarum, which means that he was some sort of servant of the Imperial...