\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.