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cursetor

cursetor is the obsolete form of cursitor.

Meaning of cursitor

Noun

cursitor (plural cursitors)

  1. A courier or runner.
  2. (UK, obsolete) A clerk in the Court of Chancery whose business is to make out original writs.
    • When actions are brought in the Courts of King's Bench or Common Pleas, founded upon original writs issuing out of the Courts of Chancery (which writs, as stated in the Report of the 9th of April 1816, it is the duty of the Cursitors to make out) it has been the practice in certain cases for the...1817 December 20, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, “Second Report of the Commissioners for Examining into the Duties, Salaries and Emoluments, of the Officers, Clerks and Ministers, of the...

Forms of cursetor

pluralcursetors

Questions about cursetor

What is cursetor the obsolete form of?
Cursetor is the obsolete form of cursitor.

Words near cursetor in the dictionary

  1. curses of Cain
  2. curses out
  3. curses, like chickens, come home to roost
  4. cursest
  5. curseth
  6. cursetor
  7. cursetors
  8. curseword
  9. cursewords
  10. curseworthy
  11. curship

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