CURSITOR

Definition: CURSITOR

CURSITOR

Noun

1. An officer in the Court of Chancery, whose business is to make out original writs.

2. A courier or runner.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "CURSITOR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references)

"CURSITOR" is a common misspelling or typo for: castor, corridor, curio, cuspidor.

Domain	Definition
Literature	Cursitor (Latin, clericus de cursu). Formerly a clerk of the course; a chancery clerk, who made out original writs for the beat, course, or part of the county allotted him. A Newgate solicitor was called a cursitor in depreciation of his office. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Lawyer	Solicitor, proctor; notary, notary public; scrivener, cursitor; writer, writer to the signet; S.S.C.; limb of the law; pettifogger; vakil.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: CURSITOR

Specialty definitions using "CURSITOR": Skillygolee. (references)

Etymologies containing "CURSITOR": Cursive. (references)

"CURSITOR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CURSITOR" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	2	245,945

Words rhyming with "CURSITOR" (pronounced 'Cur"si*tor'): Abactor, Abator, Abbreviator, Abdicator, Abductor, Aberuncator, Abnegator, Abrogator, Accelerator, Accentor, Accommodator, Accumulator, Acquisitor, Actor, Actuator, Adductor, Adjudicator, Adjutator, Adjutor, Administrator, Admonitor, Adulator, Adulterator, Aggregator, Agistator, Agitator, Agricultor, Alienator, Alleviator, Alliterator, Alternator, Amalgamator, Ambulator, Ameliorator, Amputator, Ancestor, Animator, Annihilator, Annotator, Annunciator, Anticipator, Appreciator, Approbator, Appropriator, Approximator, Arbitrator, Arborator, Architector, Archtraitor, Arendator. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-i-o-r-r-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: cirrous, citrous.
	-2 letters: cirrus, citrus, coitus, courts, cruors, curios, cursor, rictus, rustic, suitor.
	-3 letters: coirs, court, cruor, crust, curio, currs, curst, cutis, ictus, orris, riots, rotis, roust, routs, scour, scout, stoic, stour, tiros, torcs, toric, torsi, torus, tours, trios, trois.
	-4 letters: cist, coir, cors, cost, cots, cris, crus, curr, curs, curt, cuts, orcs, orts.
	Words containing the letters "c-i-o-r-r-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: courtiers.
	+2 letters: couturiers, instructor, microburst, rusticator.
	+3 letters: circulators, contrarious, corruptions, couturieres, curatorship, instructors, intercourse, introducers, lubricators, microbursts, quercitrons, rubricators, rusticators, scriptorium, subdirector, terricolous.
	+4 letters: articulators, carburetions, cirrostratus, contributors, corrugations, countercries, counterfires, counterraids, crematoriums, curatorships, insurrection, intercourses, mercurations, meretricious, peritrichous, procurations, purificators, reintroduces, resurrection, resuscitator, rubrications, scriptoriums, stringcourse, subdirectors.
	+5 letters: chiaroscurist, correctitudes, corruptionist, countersniper, counterstrike, curarizations, floricultures, horticultures, incorruptions, incorruptness, insurrections, interlocutors, microcircuits, microcultures, oracularities, prosecutorial, recuperations, reproductions, reproductives, resurrections, resuscitators, stringcourses, structuration, subcontraries, superromantic, trifurcations, tubocurarines.
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