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n. An official who was formerly sent to carry out the orders of a civil or ecclesiastical court.

n. Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.

n. A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court.

n. Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.

n. A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court.

n. In Roman antiquity, any officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.

n. Any officer of a civil court, or his servant or attendant.

n. Any one who puts in an appearance; an appearer.

n. Eccles., a messenger or an officer who serves the process of a spiritual court; the lowest officer of an ecclesiastical tribunal.

n. The beadle in a university, who carries the mace.

"Being examined, he confessed to the words following: "That all false matters were bolstered and clokyd in this court of Paul's Cheyne; moreover he called the apparitor, William"

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