01 n. Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.
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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.
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A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court.(Law)