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- noun Plural form of
apparitor .
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Examples
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They cried, “We all know her: send ten apparitors with us, and we will take her.”
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So the Viceroy at once sent his apparitors to the shop; which they found demolished and everything in it broken to pieces; for whilst the Wazir was riding to the palace his men had done his bidding.
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Highlands, to avoid a visit which had been made since their departure by two or three apparitors, who, in the name of a Commission appointed by the
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The Doones, with a share of that dry humour which was in them hereditary, had welcomed the two apparitors (if that be the proper name for them) and led them kindly down the valley, and told them then to serve their writ.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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Friar John and begged that we would not forget to gratify the apparitors before we went off, according to the assessment for the fees at our discharge.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Friar John and begged that we would not forget to gratify the apparitors before we went off, according to the assessment for the fees at our discharge.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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At the court of that great master of ingenuity, Pantagruel observed two sorts of troublesome and too officious apparitors, whom he very much detested.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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At the court of that great master of ingenuity, Pantagruel observed two sorts of troublesome and too officious apparitors, whom he very much detested.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The end subjoined is two-fold -- that, standing around the throne of God as his apparitors or messengers, for the glory of the divine Majesty, the angels may perpetually laud and celebrate [the praises of] God, and that they may, with the utmost swiftness, execute, at the beck of God, the offices of ministration which he enjoins upon them.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2 1560-1609 1956
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Cite her by the apparitors to come and receive a robe of honour, but she will be found _en contumace.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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