apparitor

Apparitor \Ap*par"i*tor\, n. [L., fr. apparere. See {Appear}.]
   1. Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges
      to execute their orders.
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            Before any of his apparitors could execute the
            sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner
            apparitor to the other world.         --De Quincey.
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   2. (Law) A messenger or officer who serves the process of an
      ecclesiastical court. --Bouvier.
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Beadle \Bea"dle\, n. [OE. bedel, bidel, budel, OF. bedel, F.
   bedeau, fr. OHG. butil, putil, G. b["u]ttel, fr. OHG. biotan,
   G. bieten, to bid, confused with AS. bydel, the same word as
   OHG. butil. See. {Bid}, v.]
   1. A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites
      or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an
      {apparitor} or {summoner}.
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   2. An officer in a university, who precedes public
      processions of officers and students. [Eng.]
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   Note: In this sense the archaic spellings bedel (Oxford) and
         bedell (Cambridge) are preserved.
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   3. An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of
      duties, as the preservation of order in church service,
      the chastisement of petty offenders, etc.
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