A variant spelling of alguacil; a Spanish or Spanish-American law officer or official.
An alternate spelling of 'alguacil', reflecting different transliteration choices from the Spanish 'alguacil' (from Arabic 'al-wazir'). Both spellings appear in English texts, with this form sometimes emphasizing the Arabic pronunciation more directly.
The existence of both 'alguacil' and 'alguazil' spellings shows how borrowed words from other languages create spelling chaos in English—there's no 'correct' way to write a word that came through Spanish from Arabic, so historical texts reflect the translator's choices rather than a rule.
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