apparitor

an officer who summons witnesses and executes the orders of an ecclesiastical and (formerly) a civil court. There remains such an official in the Anglican Church.

Collins Dictionary of Law © W.J. Stewart, 2006

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References in periodicals archive

Haselmayer, "The Apparitor and Chaucer's Summoner" Speculum 12 (1937): 43-57.

Material economy, spiritual economy, and social critique in Everyman

Mankind, neglectful of its "History," awaits the call of "doom's apparitor" (45, l.

Warren's recondite vocabulary

Haselmayer spells out the duties of the summoner's or "apparitor's" office in "The Apparitor and Chaucer's Summoner," Speculum 12 (1937): 43-57.

"Myne by right": Oath Making and Intent in The Friar's Tale

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