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Abbreviator (gcide) | Abbreviator \Ab*bre"vi*a`tor\, n. [LL.: cf. F. abbr['e]viateur.]
1. One who abbreviates or shortens.
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2. One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal
court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision
on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and
afterwards expand the minute into official form.
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abbreviator (wn) | abbreviator
n 1: one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work
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Abbreviatory (gcide) | Abbreviatory \Ab*bre"vi*a*to*ry\, a.
Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.
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abbreviator (wn) | abbreviator
n 1: one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work
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ABBREVIATORS (bouvier) | ABBREVIATORS, eccl. law. Officers whose duty it is to assist in drawing up
the Pope's briefs, and reducing petitions into proper form, to be converted
into Papal Bulls. Vide Bulls.
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