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cursitors

cursitors is the plural 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...

Questions about cursitors

What is cursitors the plural of?
Cursitors is the plural of cursitor.

Words near cursitors in the dictionary

  1. cursing out
  2. cursingly
  3. cursings
  4. cursitating
  5. cursitor
  6. cursitors
  7. cursitory
  8. cursive
  9. cursive singing
  10. cursively
  11. cursiveness

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