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APPARITOR, or APPARATOR (Latin for a servant of a public official, from apparere, to attend in public)

APPARITOR, or APPARATOR (Latin for a servant of a public See also:
OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)
official, from apparere, to attend in public) , an attendant who executed the orders of a See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

MAGISTRATE (Lat. magistratus, from magister, master, properly a public office, hence the person holding such an office)

magistrate; hence a See also:

BEADLE

beadle in a -Iniversity, a See also:

PURSUIVANT (0. Fr. porsivant, poursivant, mod. poursuivani, strictly an attendant, from poursuirore, to follow)

pursuivant or See also:

HERALD (O. Fr. heraut, herault; the origin is uncertain, but O.H.G. heren, to call, or hariwald, leader of an army, have been proposed; the Gr. equivalent is Kddpvi : Lat. praeco, caduceator, fetialis)

herald; particularly, in Englishecclesiastical courts, the See also:

OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official who serves the processes of the See also:

court and causes defendants to appear by See also:

SUMMONS (Fr. semonce, from semonner or semondre, Lat. summonere, summonitio)

summons .

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