Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CUR'SI-TOR, n. [from the L. curso, cursito, to run.]

In England, a clerk in the court of chancery, whose business is to make out original writs. In the statute 18 Edward III. cursitors are called clerks of course. They are twenty-four in number, and are a corporation among themselves. To each are assigned countries, to which he issues writs. – Encyc.