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Abbreviator   Listen
noun
Abbreviator  n.  
1.
One who abbreviates or shortens.
2.
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.





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"Abbreviator" Quotes from Famous Books



... Titus, like Vespasian, was uneasy, and with cause. Dion Cassius, or rather that brute Xiphilin, his abbreviator, mentions the fever that overtook him, the same his father had met. It was mortal, of course, ...
— Imperial Purple • Edgar Saltus


Words linked to "Abbreviator" :   redact, rewriter, redactor, rewrite man, reviser


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