Definition of "abbreviator" [ab•bre•vi•a•tor]

• 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. (noun)

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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!"
• "Latini (1230-94) merely reproduces in this respect the compilations of C. Julius Solinus, the abbreviator of Pliny."
• "Colonia; Peter of Aquila (d. about 1370), who as abbreviator of"