Apparitor
- n. A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court.
- n. Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.