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Meaning of CURSITOR

 
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Cur"si*tor\ (k?r"s?-t?r), n. [LL. cursitor, equiv. to
L. cursor, fr. cursare to run hither and thither, fr. currere
to run. See {Current}, and cf. {Cursor}.]
1. A courier or runner. [Obs.] ``Cursitors to and fro.''
   --Holland.

2. (Eng.Law) An officer in the Court of Chancery, whose
   business is to make out original writs.

 

 

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