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Definition of Abbreviator
1. Noun. One who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work.
Generic synonyms: Redact, Redactor, Reviser, Rewrite Man, Rewriter
Derivative terms: Abbreviate, Abbreviate, Abridge
Definition of Abbreviator
1. n. One who abbreviates or shortens.
Definition of Abbreviator
1. Noun. Agent noun of abbreviate; one who abbreviates or shortens. ¹
2. Noun. (context: Roman Catholicism) 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Abbreviator
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abbreviator
Literary usage of Abbreviator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Larcher's Notes on Herodotus: Historical and Critical Comments on the by Pierre-Henri Larcher (1844)
"I cannot doubt but that the text is corrupt. Casaubon perceived this, and has
not hesitated to adopt the reading of the abbreviator of Strabo, ..."
2. A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and by William Tooke, William Beloe, Robert Nares (1798)
"... made by that council clerk of the ceremonies, abbreviator, and one of the ...
abbreviator ..."
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