viator

noun

1. (rare)A wayfarer, traveler.

   “After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.”

   “[The] notion of man as viator in search of perfection in history thus did not function as a legitimating idea for progress.”

   “... theological virtues and of the whole supernatural life in God on account of sanctifying grace. Aquinas understands the viator in the state of grace in […]”

2. (historical, rare)An apparitor, a summoner: a minor Roman official.

   “The apparitor tribuni was a viator, whose most important function was that of arrest.”

3. A person who is subject to a viatical insurance policy or a viatical settlement.

   “[…] the viators are residents of different states, the viatical settlement […]”

   “Viatical settlement providers purchase the policies from individual viators. Once purchased, these viatical settlement providers typically sell […]”

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A municipality in Andalusia, Spain.
2. (countable, uncountable)A surname.