- 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. - An officer in a university, who precedes public processions
of officers and students. - 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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