exigenter

English

Etymology

exigent +‎ -er

Noun

exigenter (plural exigenters)

1. (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.