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Webster 1913 Edition
Abbreviator
Ab-bre′vi-aˊtor
,Noun.
[LL.: cf. F.
abbréviateur
.] 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Abbreviator
ABBRE'VIATOR
,Noun.