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Definition of Apparitor
1. n. Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.
Definition of Apparitor
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apparitor
Literary usage of Apparitor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shakespeare's England: Or, Sketches of Our Social History of the Reign of by Walter Thornbury (1856)
"The apparitor. — Song Seller. — Smoking. — No Allusion to it in Shakspere.
— Abuse of it. — Eulogies. — Methods of taking it. — King James's Pamphlet. ..."
2. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)
"A stranger had died in a house in St. Dunstan's belong- O f-> ing to a certain
John Fleming, and an apparitor had been sent " to seal his chamber and his ..."
3. The National Review edited by Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1856)
"A stranger had died in a house in St. Dunstan's belonging to a certain John
Fleming, and an apparitor had been sent ' to seal his chamber and his goods,' ..."
4. Shakspere's England; or, Sketches of our social history in the reign of by Walter Thornbury (1856)
"The apparitor. — Song Seller. — Smoking. — No Allusion to it in Shakspere.
— Abuse of it. — Eulogies. — Methods of taking it. — King James's Pamphlet. ..."
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