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One who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work
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abbreviator
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n. 1 (non-gloss definition agent noun Agent noun of abbreviate); one who abbreviates or shortens. (Early 16 th century.) (R:SOED5: page=3) 2 (context history Roman Catholicism English) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty ...
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Abbreviator , plural Abbreviators in English or Abbreviatores in Latin, also called Breviators , were a body of writers in the papal chancery , whose business was to sketch out and prepare in due form the pope's bulls , briefs and consistorial decrees before ...
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abbreviator \Ab*bre"vi*a`tor\, n. [LL.: cf. F. abbr['e]viateur.] One who abbreviates or shortens. 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 ...
WordNet
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n : one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work [syn: abridger ]
Usage examples of abbreviator.
The old abbreviators and modern compilers have blindly followed the Augustan History.
But the three abbreviators, Eutropius and the Victors, use very qualifying expressions: "sinente potius quam jubente.
With such guides we might neglect the abbreviators and ecclesiastical historians.
But the three abbreviators, Eutropius and the Victors, use very qualifying expressions: "sinente potius quam jubente.
With such guides we might neglect the abbreviators and ecclesiastical historians.