viators

Noun

viator (plural viators or viatores)

1. (rare) A wayfarer, traveler.
   • After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a...1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28
2. (historical, rare) An apparitor, a summoner: a minor Roman official.
   • The apparitor tribuni was a viator, whose most important function was that of arrest.1882, Titus Livius, Historiarum Romanarum quæ supersunt liber secundus, ed. by H. Belcher, page 198
3. A person who is subject to a viatical insurance policy or a viatical settlement.
   • […] the viators are residents of different states, the viatical settlement […]2016, Howard M. Friedman, Anderson's Ohio Annotated Securities Law Handbook, 2016 Edition, LexisNexis, →ISBN

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