Ap*par"i*tor (?), n. [L., fr.
apparere. See Appear.] 1. Formerly, an
officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their
orders.
Before any of his apparitors could execute the
sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the
other world.
De Quincey.
2. (Law) A messenger or officer who serves
the process of an ecclesiastical court. Bouvier.