apparitor Meaning, Definition & Usage

Ap*par"i*tor noun
Etymology
L., fr. apparere. See Appear.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913