apparitorn.
/əˈparɪtə/ 1. The servant or attendant of an officer or authority.
a. Roman History. A general name for the public servants of the Roman magistrates.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > other types of servant
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1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) ii. 192 The consul..mon obey to all empire and change of tribunis, as he war bot ane serjand and apparatoure thareto.
1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero I. iii. 155 Lictors, and Apparitors.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. 36 Six hundred apparitors, who would be styled at present either secretaries, or clerks, or ushers, or messengers.
1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia II. i. 23 The apparitors of Orestes, who followed in his robes of office.
b. An officer of a civil court.
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society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > an officer of the court > [noun] > official who summons persons to court
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1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes 17 I sawe him make an Apparriter..eate his Citation waxe and all.
1671 F. Philipps Regale Necessarium 174 Sheriffs Apparitors or their Bayliffs.
a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) i. 5 One of the Children stood at the Door to give Notice if he saw the Apparitor coming.
1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. II. 6/2 The judges will hear reason, when the wand of the Apparitor is tipped with gold.
c. An officer of an ecclesiastical court.
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society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > [noun] > officer of > apparitor
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1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. lxxvij The Commissaries and officials with their somners and apparetars.
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 51 With all the hell pestering rabble of Sumners and Apparitors.
1856 J. H. Newman Callista 108 Seized by the apparitor, and hurried to the rack.
1875 F. W. Farrar Life Christ II. lix. 344 The apparitors of the Jewish court.
d. ‘Apparitor, or Apparitour, or Apparator, a beadle in a university, who carries the mace before the masters, and the faculties.’ Chambers Cycl. 1727. Also applied to other similar functionaries.
2. gen. A herald, pursuivant, usher. literal and figurative.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > one who walks before his master
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1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. ii. f. 133 He [John the Baptist] onely executeth the office of an apparitor.
1582 T. Bentley et al. Monument of Matrones iii. 328 Yee holie spirits, the apparitors of the Lords Maiestie.
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes ii. 1268 Jubilees, whereof Crusado's were Forerunners and Apparitors.
1650 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 614 But suspected all apparitours, cryers, praisers, and friends.
3. One who appears, an appearer. rare.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [noun] > appearing or becoming visible > one who or that which appears
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1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. viii. 243 The Higher Court..in which..every Human Soul is an apparitor.
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