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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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