Ăp'o-crĭs'i-a-ry or Ăp'o-crī'si-ā'ri-ŭs, n.

Ăp'o-crī'si-ā'ri-ŭs, n. [Fr. apocrisiaire, Lat. apocrisiarius, apocrisarius, from Gr. ἀπόκρισις, answer; ἀποκρίνεσθαι, to answer, ἀποκρίνειν, to distinguish, from ἀπό, from, and κρίνειν, to separate.] One who resided at the imperial city Constantinople, in the name of a foreign church or bishop (including the pope's legate or nuncio), and whose office was to negotiate at the emperor's court, in all ecclesiastical causes in which their principals were concerned.