apparitor

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ap=par=i=tor

CIDE DICTIONARY

apparitor, n. [L., fr. apparere. See Appear.].

•  Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.  [1913 Webster]

  "Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world."  [1913 Webster]
•  A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court.  Bouvier.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

apparitor

Messenger

N messenger, envoy, emissary, legate, nuncio, internuncio, ambassador, marshal, flag bearer, herald, crier, trumpeter, bellman, pursuivant, parlementaire, apparitor, courier, runner, dak, estafette, Mercury, Iris, Ariel, commissionaire, errand boy, chore boy, newsboy, mail, overnight mail, express mail, next-day delivery, post, post office, letter bag, delivery service, United Parcel Service, UPS, Federal Express, Fedex, telegraph, telephone, cable, wire (electronic information transmission), carrier pigeon, (news) 532 reporter, gentleman of the press, representative of the press, penny-a-liner, special correspondent, own correspondent, spy, scout, informer.