Usually means: Officer managing heraldic matters, ceremonies.
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  1. pursuivant: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pursuivant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pursuivant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pursuivant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Pursuivant, pursuivant: Wordnik
  6. pursuivant: Wiktionary
  7. pursuivant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. pursuivant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. pursuivant: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Pursuivant, pursuivant: Dictionary.com
  11. Pursuivant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Pursuivant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. pursuivant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Pursuivant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. pursuivant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. pursuivant: Free Dictionary
  17. pursuivant: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. pursuivant: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. pursuivant: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pursuivant)

noun:  (archaic) A follower.
noun:  (heraldry) A functionary of lower rank than a herald, but discharging similar duties; called also pursuivant at arms; an attendant of the heralds, e.g. in the College of Arms.
noun:  (Freemasonry) A Grand Lodge Officer who guards the inner door during a meeting of the Grand Lodge.
noun:  A royal messenger, (particularly) one with the authority to execute warrants.
noun:  (law enforcement, by extension) A warrant officer.

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