Apparitor

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Apparitor \Ap*par"i*tor\, n. [L., fr. apparere. See {Appear}.]
     1. Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges
        to execute their orders.
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              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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     2. (Law) A messenger or officer who serves the process of an
        ecclesiastical court. --Bouvier.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Beadle \Bea"dle\, n. [OE. bedel, bidel, budel, OF. bedel, F.
     bedeau, fr. OHG. butil, putil, G. b["u]ttel, fr. OHG. biotan,
     G. bieten, to bid, confused with AS. bydel, the same word as
     OHG. butil. See. {Bid}, v.]
     1. A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites
        or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an
        {apparitor} or {summoner}.
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     2. An officer in a university, who precedes public
        processions of officers and students. [Eng.]
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     Note: In this sense the archaic spellings bedel (Oxford) and
           bedell (Cambridge) are preserved.
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     3. An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of
        duties, as the preservation of order in church service,
        the chastisement of petty offenders, etc.
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