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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ap·par·i·tor /əˈpærətɚ/
 執行官,布告者,宮廷使者

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ap·par·i·tor n.
 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.
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