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.
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