ABBREVIATORS

Noun

abbreviators

plural of abbreviator

Source: Wiktionary


ABBREVIATOR

Ab*bre"vi*a`tor, n. Etym: [LL.: cf. F. abbréviateur.]

1. One who abbreviates or shortens.

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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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