Messenger

Messenger, one who carries an errand; a forerunner.Messengers are certain officers employed under the direction of the Secretaries of State, and always ready to be sent with dispatches, foreign and domestic (now called King's Messengers). They were employed with the secretaries' warrants to arrest persons for treason, or other offences against the State, which did not so properly fall under the cognizance of the Common Law, and, perhaps, were not properly to be divulged in the ordinary course of justice, 2 Hawk. P.C., c. xvi., s. 9.There are other officers distinguished by this appellation, as the messengers of the Lord Chancellor, Privy Council, and Exchequer, etc. Also, in bankruptcy, persons officially appointed who seize a bankrupt's property. The office of messenger of the Great Seal was abolished by 37 & 38 Vict. c. 81...

Courier

Courier [fr. Courir, Fr., to run], an express messenger of haste; a travelling attendant...

Namtar

A demon personifying death messenger of the underworld goddess Ereshkigal bringing death to mankind...

Nunciate

One who announces a messenger a nuncio...

VerbarNuncius

A messenger...

ocher mutation

A mutation in which the base sequence of one of the codons in the messenger RNA has been converted to UAA Such a mutation may be conditionally suppressed as can an amber mutation by the presence of a special transfer RNA...

Send

To cause to go in any manner to dispatch to commission or direct to go as to send a messenger...

Apparator, or Apparitor

Apparator, or Apparitor, a messenger who cites and arrests offenders, and executes the decrees of the judges of the Spiritual Courts. He holds his office at the pleasure of Parliament, and does not possess a vested interest in it. See the (English) Ecclesiastical Fees Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 76)....

Beadle, or Bedel

Beadle, or Bedel [fr. beodan, bydel, A. S., to bid], a church-servant who is chosen by the vestry, and whose business is to attend the vestry, to give notice of its meetings, to execute its orders, to attend upon inquests, and to assist the constables. A crier or messenger of a Court, who cites men to appear and answer; an inferior officer of a parish or liberty. Many other kinds of subordinate officers are socalled....

Great Seal (Offices) Act, 1874

Great Seal (Offices) Act, 1874 (English) (37 & 38Vict. c. 81. This Act makes provision for the abolition of various offices connected with the Great Seal; such as those of the Messenger of the Great Seal, Clerk of the Petty Bag, Clerk f the Patents, and Purse-bearer to the Lord Chancellor....

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