Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A register or clerk.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who draughts protocols.

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  • noun One who draws up protocols.

Etymologies

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protocol +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • Referendar -- which may be translated respectively protocolist and junior counsel.

    William of Germany Stanley Shaw

  • St. James's, a singularly fascinating man, was protocolist to the

    Here, There and Everywhere Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892

  • a forwarding office (Ufficio di Spedizione) with a small personnel; there are, besides the cardinal who presides over the Chancery, the regent, with the college of Apostolic prothonotaries, a notary, secretary and archivist, a protocolist, and four amanuenses.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • Born in April, 1815, two months before the battle of Waterloo, at Schoenhausen, in the Prussian Province of Saxony, not far from Magdeburg, he studied at the universities of Gottingen and Berlin and passed two steps of the official ladder ” Auscultator and Referendar ” which may be translated respectively protocolist and junior counsel.

    William of Germany Shaw, Stanley 1913

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