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Creator of short sentences?
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abbreviator
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n : one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work [syn: abridger ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
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 ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
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.