资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Dempster \Demp"ster\ (?; 215), Demster \Dem"ster\, n. [See
   {Deemster}.]
   1. A deemster.

   2. (O. Scots Law) An officer whose duty it was to announce
      the doom or sentence pronounced by the court.