(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:59:05

Demp"ster (?; 215), Dem"ster (?), n. [See Deemster.]

1.

A deemster.

2. O. ScotsLaw

An officer whose duty it was to announce the doom or sentence pronounced by the court.

 

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