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What is an apparitor?

What is an apparitor? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) An officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.
  2. A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court.
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Mr. Garden then sent his apparitor for his commission, from the Bishop of London, to act as commissary.
An apparitor tore him down, and was dragged to the ground in his turn.
In this case the tribunal, with rare moderation, only ordered its apparitor to seize the books in the hands of the students.
Being recalled by the apparitor and registrar, he returned, and handed in his exception to be read and filed.
One of the children stood at the door to give notice if he saw the apparitor coming, who was an officer of the spiritual court.
Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world.

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