exigenter

English

Etymology

exigent +‎ -er

Noun

exigenter (plural exigenters)

(UK, law, obsolete) An officer in the Court of King's Bench and Common Pleas whose duty it was to make out exigents.
- 1672, Edward Chamberlayne, Angliae Notitia:
  There are also four Exigenters, whose Office is to make all Exigents and Proclamations in all Actions where Process of Outlawry doth lye.

References

“exigenter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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