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English → English (gcide) Definition: 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. [1913 Webster] Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster] 2. (Law) A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court. --Bouvier. [1913 Webster] ||