Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who abbreviates, abridges, or reduces to a smaller compass; specifically, one who abridges what has been written by another.
- noun One of a number of secretaries in the chancery of the pope who abbreviate petitions according to certain established and technical rules, and draw up the minutes of the apostolic letters.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who abbreviates or shortens.
- noun 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work
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Examples
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What an abbreviator and clawer off of lawsuits, reconciler of differences, examiner and fumbler of bags, peruser of bills, scribbler of rough drafts, and engrosser of deeds would he not make!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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What an abbreviator and clawer off of lawsuits, reconciler of differences, examiner and fumbler of bags, peruser of bills, scribbler of rough drafts, and engrosser of deeds would he not make!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Cardinal Parizzio, and Paul III appointed him judge of the Capitol, papal abbreviator, and referendary of both signatures.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Under the pontificate of his former pupil Paul II (1464-1471), he returned to Rome and was appointed a papal abbreviator, but became involved in fresh quarrels in 1465 he visited Crete and Byzantium, and then returned to Rome, where he wrote the account of the martyrdom of Bl. Andrew of Chios
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Bulls, and by no means the emoluments accruing to the recipient of the favour or benefice conferred by the Bull, and declares that whoever shall charge more than the tax fixed by him shall be suspended for six months from office, and upon a second violation of the law, shall be deprived of it altogether, and if the delinquent be an abbreviator, he shall be excommunicated.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Julius Paris is an abbreviator of Valerius Maximus, and lived at the end of the fourth century or the beginning of the fifth.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Colonia; Peter of Aquila (d. about 1370), who as abbreviator of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Soltau; Dietrich remained as before a papal abbreviator.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Latini (1230-94) merely reproduces in this respect the compilations of C. Julius Solinus, the abbreviator of Pliny.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Urban VI conferred on him the lucrative and important office of abbreviator et scriptor in the papal chancery
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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