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APPARITOR n. 2 definitions
icer 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.
APPELLATORY a.
Containing an appeal. An appellatory libel ought to contain the name of the party appellant. Ayliffe.
APPLICATORILY adv.
By way of application.
APPLICATORY a. 2 definitions
Having the property of applying; applicative; practical. -- n.
APPOINTOR n.
The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2.
APPRECATORY a.
Praying or wishing good. [Obs.]"Apprecatory benedictions." Bp. Hall.
APPRECIATOR n.
One who appreciates.
APPRECIATORY a.
Showing appreciation; appreciative; as, appreciatory commendation. -- Ap*pre"ci*a*to*ri*ly, adv.
APPROBATOR n.
One who approves. [R.]
APPROBATORY a.
Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory. Sheldon.
APPROPRIATOR n. 2 definitions
A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator.
APPROXIMATOR n.
One who, or that which, approximates.
ARATORY a.
Contributing to tillage.
ARBITRATOR n. 2 definitions
ing without control; a ruler; a governor. Though Heaven be shut, And Heaven's high Arbitrators sit secure. Milton. Masters of their own terms and arbitrators of a peace. Addison.
ARBORATOR n.
One who plants or who prunes trees. [Obs.] Evelyn.
ARCHITECTOR n.
An architect. [Obs.] North.
ARCHTRAITOR n.
A chief or transcendent traitor. I. Watts.
ARENDATOR n.
In some provinces of Russia, one who farms the rents or revenues.
ARPENTATOR n.
The Anglicized form of the French arpenteur, a land surveyor. [R.]
ARTICULATOR n.
One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.
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